Web Strategies that Cater to Customers

Blogs. Podcasts. Video-sharing sites. Social networks. Here’s a word of advice for companies scrambling to become a part of these conversations. It’s not enough to build a hub in Second Life or create a profile on MySpace.com (NWS ). It’s time to shift your focus away from trying out every high-tech platform that comes across your in-box. Instead, home in on your customers. Almost every demographic group you can think of is engrossed in the Web these days, and users are getting smarter about their tools. It won’t take long to find the consumers who care about what you’re doing—and tune in to what they’re doing.”

A related chart chart of interest. The data came from Forrester Research. It shows, visually, the use of the social networking tools by generation and the penetration of these tools in the U.S.

Read the full article here

0 Responses to “Web Strategies that Cater to Customers”


  1. No Comments

Tags in Use

Tag Cloud

libraries education digital librarians/information professionals Google search social networking innovation books library services demographics technology internet virtual worlds collections social sites Library of Congress web 2.0 publishing research corporations YouTube economics Second Life children web sites information Facebook knowledge management Microsoft museums American Library Association video archives business intelligence censorship mobile/cell phones OCLC blogs copyright Yahoo gadgets China users reading MySpace mapping competitive intelligence literacy cataloging gaming Pew Research e-books software trends Wikipedia open access databases green Canada reference NYPL environment privacy communities semantic web journals OLPC Apple computer science India Amazon preservation podcasts art Kindle iPhone consumers wiki collaboration microblogging Europe disabilities techniques online resources Firefox future digital divide news Ask politics library 2.0 music Mozilla government Twitter dictionaries television film Uncategorized language video games authors open source design Flickr awards LibraryThing email United Nations United Kingdom tagging media cloud computing comics mashups teens widgets poetry career instant messages audiobooks hardware experiential science intranets geospatial Vista AOL writing applications Japan psychology Copyright Clearance Center prisons Digg original content outsourcing peer review security photos plagiarism Special Libraries Association data book groups architecture sources journalism emoticons Android European Library history Africa VoIP Generation Y salaries broadband leadership bookcarts MSL Technorati newspapers RSS metadata ARL marketing Wikia Windows society travel wi-fi aggregators CAD young adult acquisitions/mergers AJAX Virtual Earth storytelling taxonomies thought leadership translation spam Moodle hakia grants genealogy fund raising health Horizon Report Asia Pacific IMLS IEEE Flock fashion developing worlds del.icio.us Cuba Dogpile early adopters ethics EMEA Baby Boomers Intel intellectual property patents outreach orphan works chat records management Shakespeare anthropology RFID SOA OPAC learning law 3D artificial intelligence classification leisure LinkedIn multi-tasking media players paper Blogroll

Calendar

July 2007
S M T W T F S
« Jun   Sep »
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

RSS Feeds


Google Reader or Homepage
Add to My Yahoo!
Subscribe with Bloglines
Subscribe in NewsGator Online

Add to My AOL
Subscribe in Rojo
Subscribe with Pluck RSS reader
Add to Technorati Favorites!
Add to netvibes


Subscribe in NewsAlloy



Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License