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Smartphone videos rewrite rules of customer researchRestricted Content

April 6, 2013
Chris O'Malley
Carmel-based Strategic Marketing & Research Inc. is among firms tapping the capabilities of video-enabled smartphones to gain insights into consumers’ thoughts and emotions. They’re doing this by having consumers use their phones to shoot a video diary of their product experiences.
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New ChaCha unit to pair celebrities, advertisersRestricted Content

January 12, 2013
Chris O'Malley
The ever-evolving information/answers service ChaCha Search has launched a startup within the 7-year-old company. Social Reactor will match advertisers with participating celebrities and other “social influencers,” who will use social media tools such as Twitter to drive fans to advertisers. Verge founder Matt Hunckler was tapped to get it rolling.
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Eli Lilly aims to ramp up social media presenceRestricted Content

September 8, 2012
J.K. Wall
The drugmaker recently drafted social media guidelines it hopes can help it expand its use of social media to more of its employees—without running afoul of regulators.
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Small firms using social media to tighten ties to customersRestricted Content

August 25, 2012
Andrea Muirragui Davis
More small businesses are turning to technology to connect with clients. Nationwide, over half of firms with fewer than 100 employees use social media, according to a 2012 survey from research firm SMB Group Inc.
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Slingshot SEO branches out after Google throws it for a loopRestricted Content

August 11, 2012
Chris O'Malley
Search-engine optimization remains part of Slingshot SEO’s name. But one of the region’s fastest-growing tech companies is abruptly shifting strategy—in part because changes by Google have undercut its core business.
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Shares of Facebook stall after company's record IPO

May 18, 2012
Bloomberg News
Facebook sold 421million shares to raise $16 billion, giving the company a $104 billion market value. After the debut, underwriters bought the stock to keep it from falling below the IPO price.
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HETRICK: All the news that's fit to tweet, post and petition

March 24, 2012
Bruce Hetrick
Ever the junkie for news, behind-the-scenes details, snarky comments and additional perspective—and increasingly unwilling to wait for an evening newscast or morning paper to get my fix—I often sit with my iPhone close at hand, checking feeds from Twitter and Facebook.
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Social media to play big role in Super Bowl

January 25, 2012
Scott Olson
A social media command center will monitor the digital fan conversation via Facebook, Twitter and other platforms, and respond to visitors who need assistance.
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Startup aims to mend doctors' social media woesRestricted Content

October 29, 2011
J.K. Wall
RepuChek software tracks, analyzes what's being said about doctors on the Internet.
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Finish Line, HHGregg step up their e-commerce strategiesRestricted Content

October 12, 2011
Greg Andrews
Traditional retailers are trying to connect with customers, however and whenever they want to do business.
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Irsay blazing a trail through TwitterRestricted Content

September 17, 2011
Anthony Schoettle
The Indianapolis Colts' Jim Irsay is among only a handful of NFL owners tweeting and has three times as many followers as such high-profile owners as the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones. His offbeat tweets are seen as marketing genius by some. Others wonder if they ramble a bit too far out of bounds or undermine Irsay's staff.
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Harrison College taps social media to help online studentsRestricted Content

August 27, 2011
J.K. Wall
The for-profit school formerly known as the Indiana Business College has overhauled its online interface.
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Word getting out nationally about city's measured-marketing technology nicheRestricted Content

July 23, 2011
 IBJ Staff
The publication Online Media Marketing & Advertising noted that Indianapolis is home to about 70 companies in the sector.
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DECKERS: What are customers tweeting about you?

May 21, 2011
Erik Deckers / Special to IBJ
Where were you when you first heard about Osama Bin Laden? Did you hear about it on Twitter and Facebook? On TV? Or did you see it on the front page of the morning paper, 10 hours after the rest of the world?
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Local firm making noise with app for radio stations

February 24, 2011
Scott Olson
Boost Media & Entertainment's MyStationApp targets independent radio stations such as WTTS-FM 92.3 in Bloomington, which is having success with the product.
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Irsay quickly gains Twitter following

December 8, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlin
Since joining Twitter last week, the Indianapolis Colts owner has talked about player injuries, compared his team's season to an epic boxing match and made reference to a former drug habit.
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Raidious aims to feed online marketing beastRestricted Content

November 27, 2010
Chris O'Malley
Upstart firm helps its clients meet onerous content demands of social media, other online marketing channels.
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ALTOM: When is it OK to connect with someone on LinkedIn?

November 6, 2010
Tim Altom
I never thought of online business networking site LinkedIn as having an ethical dilemma attached to it, until one day when I received an invitation from a client to connect to him.
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Enforcement lax on teen-driver mobile-phone ban

August 2, 2010
Associated Press
Indiana State Police report ticketing only one driver for violating the cell phone ban, and a state agency that tracks infractions for 160 police departments could find just two other citations.
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SURF THIS: Start benefiting from a social media platform

July 31, 2010
Jim Cota
Seems like almost every day a new social media platform is born. If you added them all up, you would easily be in the hundreds. Obviously, all of them are too much for all of us to pay much attention to, but there are a few you should not only know about, but participate in.
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Ad firm unit studies impact of social media on movie biz

July 10, 2010
Anthony Schoettle
At a time many local advertising agencies are struggling, one firm is growing with an unusual new division aimed at measuring the effects of social media on movies and actors. Bradley and Montgomery late last summer launched Fizziology as a stand-alone enterprise.
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Startup shoots for better Craigslist

July 10, 2010
Chris O'Malley
Zankit, on online classified ad firm that thinks it has a better solution than Craigslist, was hatched only last month and plans a late-July launch. It’s the product of six strangers who met at Indianapolis Startup Weekend just last month.
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Indiana Supreme Court turns to Twitter

May 18, 2010
Indiana Lawyer Staff
Court-watchers can get legal updates in 140-character bursts instead of 140-page legal documents detailing court business. Indeed, times are changing.
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ALTOM: Is Facebook folly or a fantastic marketing tool?Restricted Content

November 21, 2009
Tim Altom
Companies are using Facebook as an alternative way of reaching a vast audience, not as a replacement for their own Web sites.
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ALTOM: What's available about you online may surprise youRestricted Content

November 7, 2009
Tim Altom
A half-hour perusing the various social media sites can give you carloads of information about your sought-after individual.
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