Freight executives are increasingly making use of social networking opportunities such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to network, communicate and debate topics with other key decision-makers in the industry. As part of our continuing commitment to delivering the most relevant freight and logistics stories, IFW has harnessed the power of Facebook and launched its very [...]
by David on April 8, 2011
Freight executives are increasingly making use of social networking opportunities such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to network, communicate and debate topics with other key decision-makers in the industry. As part of our continuing commitment to delivering the most relevant freight and logistics stories, IFW has harnessed the power of Facebook and launched its very [...]
by David on October 11, 2010
French impressionist Claude Monet said, “I am following Nature without being able to grasp her.” Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra once asked, “Why has elegance found so little following?” More recently, @ladygaga sings “I’m your biggest fan, I’ll follow you until you love me.” At Twitter, we spend a lot of time thinking about following. [...]
by David on October 6, 2010
How worthwhile is social media? Do the number of friends you have on Facebook make a difference in your personal life? How about LinkedIn for your professional life? In a world where our digital attention spans are regularly overwhelmed by information, is social media really worth it? The latest Great Debate from Switzerland’s premier business [...]
by David on October 3, 2010
To twitter is to send out brief text messages (limited to 140 characters) via the Internet using cell phones or handheld computers. Top twitters up to now have tended to be celebrities updating their fans on their moment-to-moment experiences. For transporters into Africa, it’s time to start twittering to one another, communicating real-time bulletins on [...]
by David on September 14, 2010
To date, there has been no extensive analysis of South African Twitter usage. Fuseware has profiled millions of tweets from South Africa and tens of thousands of users to better understand the South African Tweeter. We have aggregated this information into dozens of graphs and word clouds for easy reading and dissemination. This information is [...]