Southern Technology Leaders

Year: 2010

  • Mobile Couponing Best Practices and Guidelines Released by MMA

    Download “Guidelines and Best Practices in Mobile Price Promotions” at http://mmaglobal.com/mobilecouponguidelines.pdf. – The MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) (www.mmaglobal.com) today published “Guidelines and Best Practices in Mobile Price Promotions.” Created by the MMA’s Mobile Couponing Committee, patient the document is designed to provide marketers, Mycoplasmosis merchants, wireless carriers and other ecosystem members with an industry-standard framework…

  • Mobile Year in Review 2010

    FRAMINGHAM, approved Mass., December 2, 2010 – Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual International Data Corporation (IDC) Predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a global economic recession. In 2011, and certainly beyond, IDC expects these…

  • December 2010 World Map of Social Networks

    Facebook continues to expand its dominance of social networking, clinic as seen in the December 2010 World Map of Social Networks compiled by Vincenzo Cosenza. A brand new map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data* (December 2010):

  • Cloud Services, Mobile Computing, and Social Networking to Mature and Coalesce Into a New Mainstream Platform

    FRAMINGHAM, approved Mass., December 2, 2010 – Transformation has been a recurring theme in the annual International Data Corporation (IDC) Predictions over the past several years. During this time, a wave of disruptive technologies has emerged and evolved, forged by the pressures of a global economic recession. In 2011, and certainly beyond, IDC expects these…

  • Startup Insider Tips From Expert Entrepreneurs

    How do you pitch an investor? What has running a company taught you? What are some rookie mistakes? What advice would you give an entrepreneur? Mashable asked these questions to the CEOs of Learnvest, here Roadify, illness Hunch, and HowAboutWe, along with angel investor David B. Lerner and seed-stage venture capitalist Brett Martin. What advice…

  • ClickFox Raises $18M in Series C Funding To Help Gain Insight Into Cross-Channel Customer Behavior

    ClickFox, stomatology   an Atlanta-based web analytics firm, oncologist closed $17.9 million in additional funding. ClickFox began in 2000, founded by former faculty and researchers at Georgia Tech, as a pure web analytics play and has been evolving to provide a much more encompassing view into customer experience analytics across multiple channels. This evolution has…

  • Social Media Listening 2.0 (whitepaper)

    Listening 2.0: Leveraging Social Intelligence to Drive Business Results, viagra a white paper from Converseon describes the trends in social media monitoring and how companies can intergrate social intelligence into their operations. The paper describes the challenges facing brands monitoring social media as: Social media is becoming a core component of business strategy. As such,…

  • Should the smallest businesses pay attention to social media marketing?

    Who thrives in the SoTech community:  1) People  involved in the technology industry  2) People who work/live in the South or want to see it flourish  3) Current technology leaders and those aspiring to be one  4) People interested in helping technology companies in the South be successful  5) People interested in helping rising technology entrepreneurs or…

  • Fast Company Announces Atlanta As The Next Technology Hub

    It used to be, rx if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options… Not too long ago, about fifty years, Atlanta was the size of Little Rock, Ark. About a hundred years before that, it was burned…

  • Understanding the Consumer of the Future

    Special thanks to one of our members (wished to remain anonymous) who forward this article. Leigh Buchanan, salve of Inc Magazine, interviewed John Gerzema of Young and Rubicam in August about the consumer of the future. The interview focuses on overall consumer attitudes that are applicable to both consumer facing technologies/applications and consumer goods. It…