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A one-of-its-kind report on social marketing report discusses how the social networking tools are used and how they benefit and for whom? The biggets winners are the Small and Medium Businesses. Check out some of the conclusions and read the report below.

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The Benefits

• The number-one benefit of social media marketing is gaining the all-important eyeball
• An unexpected benefit was a rise in search engine rankings reported by more than half of participants.

What Social Marketers use and how much?

• By a long shot, Twitter, blogs, LinkedIn and Facebook were the top four social media tools used by marketers, with Twitter leading the pack
• Twitter is used by 94% of marketers who have been using social media for years, followed closely by blogs.
• a significant 61% of those investing more than 20 hours per weeks are using social bookmarking sites.

Many have heard about the Stimulus bill from Obama, the progress on which is shared through the much advertised web site Recovery.gov. What many people may not realize is that this site is based on the Open Source CMS - Drupal.

Drupal has been used in the political arena for quite sometime. In fact it was used by Howard Dean as DeanSpace initiative long back.

You will see that interestingly the site does not use CleanURLs as you still see ?q= type of URLs. This is a good boost for the Open Source work.

It is a tough climate out there in the corporate world, specially in the IT market. Currently, ERP market is dominated by the two giants - SAP and Oracle. These two, between them, really own the majority of the market. But is that how it is going to be in future? For the big guns, probably SAP and Oracle - one of these two - will remain the only viable options. But in the downturn - recession or more appropriately Depression really, things will change.

Whenever, such times come, new things emerge and change the game. I believe the same will happen now as well. Some trends are waiting to happen:

Convergence: Desktop and Online, Laptop and PDA/phone, Fun and Serious... all sorts of convergence frontiers are waiting to happen.... or are happening as we speak! For example, if you look at iPhone and the applications being built for it, you will notice that we are really looking at a device that is perhaps more powerful than a laptop! Ok, the speeds and some connectivity may not be there.. but there are lots of things that will be added soon.. and storage is only becoming cheaper, if anything.

If you look at Google Gears and Zoho, you will know a lot of companies are moving down that path.. though we are still in the infancy of that revolution. However, there is one company, that is building up its product repertoir - Zcubes.com - is at the frontier of that revolution. I have seen at what it offers closely, and it makes Adobe, MSFT look like kid-stuff! I will share more on this work later.. with some more insights