Social media is currently an evolving “wave” in online business marketing. Marketers are beginning to drive the use of social media as a component in their marketing strategy and campaigns to reach out to customers and fans. Within the subdisciplines of marketing that may use social media...

Models of distance education have evolved over decades, just in time to collide with modern pedagogies in which communication, interaction, student engagement, and active learning are of critical importance. The social media technologies encompass a wide variety of Web-based technologies such as...

With the advent of new information & communication technologies (ICT) and its ever growing application in connecting people, online social media have become one of the main platforms for people to people interaction and this has obvious impact on formulation of marketing strategy for better...

Marketers are being inundated with social media metrics, but there is little consensus on what one should be measuring, let alone how these measures inform marketing strategy. This article attempts to bring clarity to the situation by adopting an integrated marketing communications perspective....

Social Media platforms’ integration is a technology of creating a unique user experience by providing a common web-platform, wherefrom the user can access different social media vehicles. This paper checks the patterns and modes of usage of different social media platforms. This demographic...

Because most people consider advertising an irritant and a distraction and would avoid it should there be an alternative, advertising agencies strive to utilize the interactive, demassifying, and asynchronous qualities of newer technologies to create an appealing advertisement. The current study...

In order to study the use of Twitter, it would be useful to be able to easily classify large volumes of messaging being used by Twitter users besides just in the traditional dimensions of positive and negative sentiment. For instance, in the space of social media marketing, it would be useful to...

The case looks at the social media marketing experience of Akash Gautam Training Solutions (AGTS). It covers many dimensions of using social media as an alternative and cost effective channel of communication. The case highlights the important considerations and tactics which can be used to...