) December 19, 2008 -- In its continuing efforts to demystify online marketing, Overdrive Interactive has released its Social Media Map, available for free download on its Web site. The map is available at: www.OverdriveInteractive.com/social-media-map.

The online marketing agency is providing this interactive map to allow marketers to view the many components of the social media landscape and determine how they can best leverage it to complement their overall marketing plans.

) December 18, 2008 -- Adding to its growing social media platform, Overdrive Interactive has joined the Twitter revolution, amassing hundreds of followers along the way. The online marketing agency is leveraging the social media tool to communicate with its clients and fellow marketers, providing online marketing industry updates and sharing invaluable marketing insights.

We have seen an explosion in the use of Twitter in the past year

) April 21, 2009 -- As a follow up to its successful Social Media Map, Boston online marketing agency Overdrive Interactive today unveils its Search Marketing Map. This free resource provides online marketing professionals with a comprehensive, at-a-glance directory for the complicated world of search engine marketing.

According to Overdrive CEO Harry Gold, the Search Marketing Map will help companies get their heads around the ever-expanding world of search marketing resources and can help widen their online marketing channels.

"The map has both free and paid resources for SEM (paid search) and SEO (search engine optimization," said Gold.

) November 7, 2008 -- Harry Gold, online marketing expert and founder/CEO of Overdrive Interactive, will lead a free American Marketing Association webcast entitled "Social Media is About Socializing!" on November 20.
During this one-hour event, sponsored by Aquent, the world's leading design and marketing staffing agency, Gold will share real case studies that:

) March 4, 2010 -- Overdrive Interactive, an award-winning digital agency who specializes in search and social media marketing, has released a new whitepaper "Chiclets: The Social Glue of the Web." The white paper is available for free at http://www.ovrdrv.com/chiclets or by contacting the agency directly.

Social Media Chiclet Whitepaper

) November 12, 2008 -- Overdrive Interactive has tapped Michael Ryan to become its new Director of Business Development, the online marketing agency announced today.

Mike is a great fit for Overdrive with his wealth of experience and ideas about how to grow our business with excellent service, creativity and an overwhelming passion for success

) June 4, 2009 -- MarketingSherpa, a leader in marketing research and education, has teamed up with social media marketing agency Overdrive Interactive to present "Social Media Is About Socializing" webinar. The session will take place Tuesday, June 23, at 2:00 PM EDT. The webinar will feature Jeanne Hopkins, MarketingSherpa's CMO and Harry Gold, CEO of Overdrive Interactive.

) October 15, 2008 -- Harry Gold, online marketing expert and founder and CEO of Overdrive Interactive, has been asked to lead a seminar hosted by the New England Direct Marketing Association. The seminar, entitled 'Search Engine, Blog and Social Media Marketing: Accessing the Critical Moment and Joining the Customer Conversation' is being held at the Microsoft Facility in Waltham, Mass., on November 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

) January 26, 2009 -- For businesses, decoding the social media landscape is no longer a maybe, it's a must. The only problem is the lightening speed at which social media is developing can intimidate most marketers. So the head of a national award-winning interactive agency has set up an educational webinar aimed at demystifying social media.

) February 2, 2009 -- Harry Gold, online marketing expert and founder/CEO of Overdrive Interactive, will lead an In-House Agency Forum (IHAF) webcast entitled "Social Media Is About Socializing!" on February 12 at 1:00 p.m. EST.

) June 12, 2009 -- Online marketing agency Overdrive Interactive dominated the interactive category at this year's New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) Awards. The online and social media marketing firm took top honors in a variety of interactive categories including SEM, SEO, online marketing and social media marketing.

) April 27, 2009 -- From Facebook to Twitter to blogs, social media marketing is quickly becoming the go-to solution for many businesses as a cost-effective and successful direct marketing and branding tool. Online marketing expert Harry Gold will explore the corporate social media marketing boom and how companies can effectively wade the online marketing waters at the New England Direct Marketing Association (NEDMA) 2009 Annual Conference.

) November 21, 2008 -- Overdrive Interactive has been selected as a winner in the "Best Use of Search" category at the 2008 MITX Awards for its work with Harley-Davidson. The annual MITX Awards is the largest awards competition in the country that recognizes achievements in the development and implementation of interactive technologies. Winners were announced in 33 categories, including five "Best of" awards, at a sold out ceremony attended by more than 1,000 industry professionals held on November 19 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.

) March 12, 2009 -- In this tough economic climate, more and more companies are turning to social media marketing to take advantage of free resources and sharing potential available to companies in today's web environment. To help educate marketing professionals on the latest online techniques, Harry Gold of Boston-based online marketing agency, Overdrive Interactive, will join other online marketing experts to speak at Search Engine Strategies (SES) New York 2009.

) March 30, 2009 -- Boston online marketing agency Overdrive Interactive has won the "Best of Show Email Message Campaign Award" at the 2009 Interactive Advertising Competition. The prestigious honor is awarded by the Web Marketing Association to honor excellence in online advertising, recognize the individuals and organizations responsible and showcase the award winning Internet advertising.

) September 28, 2009 -- On Tuesday, September 29 at Regis College in Weston, Mass., some of the area's foremost experts will hold a panel discussion on social media best practices. The program runs from 5:30pm to 9:00 pm, and includes the panel discussion, networking and dinner.

Joining the group of will be Harry Gold, the founder and CEO of Overdrive Interactive and the architect of online marketing and social media programs for such Fortune 500 companies as Harley-Davidson, EMC, IBM and Dow Jones. Other panel members include:

) August 26, 2009 -- TMA E-Marketing, a Minneapolis-based Internet marketing company, today announces it will be offering professional Facebook fan page design for businesses interested in extending their brand and interacting with their target audience through the social media channel. The new fan page development offers businesses a competitive edge in social media with its innovative marketing capabilities.

) November 19, 2008 -- Romanelli Communications announced today the launch of their new interactive website, romanelli.com. The updated site includes innovative features like visitor comments and feedback on every page, an email newsletter, and links to Romanelli's many online personalities on popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. The site also highlights Romanelli's branding and marketing capabilities, complete with online portfolio.

The Provell Partnership Marketing team embraces social media with a new Facebook page. The Facebook page is part of an ongoing effort to inform and educate key business partners about opportunities to increase their brand exposure within Provell’s subscriber-only membership programs.

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) July 22, 2009 -- NeoSpire, Inc., a leading provider of managed web hosting, announced the recent launch of several new social media efforts to better facilitate the communication between the company, its customers, and the industry. This includes a corporate blog, Twitter account, YouTube Channel and a Facebook Fan Page.

) December 4, 2008 -- MoreVisibility, one of the world's leading search engine marketing/optimization and design firms, today announced it now offers a complete suite of optimized social media marketing services.

MoreVisibility Social Media Marketing Services

What we've found is that firms who have Websites on popular social media sites such as Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn and others are seeing increases in traffic to their main web pages

) March 25, 2009 -- Amidst all the buzz surrounding social media and popular networking sites, 6S Marketing, one of North America's largest internet marketing firms, has conducted a survey to investigate trends in social media usage. Survey results reveal an overwhelming percentage of companies & individuals who have adopted social media for business and personal use and highlight the most popular forums and mediums for communication.

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) September 26, 2009 -- Nationally recognized dental web design firm, Officite, has launched a unique social networking program to help dental and medical practices gain higher visibility online and directly interact with potential customers.

) October 7, 2009 -- To help businesses of all sizes capitalize on the viral marketing power of social media, Seattle-based Digital Promotions and Social Media Marketing Firm RC Strategies Group has launched an affordable, turnkey Instant Win Facebook Promotion that can be customized to a businesses' unique needs and demographics.

) June 10, 2009 -- For 2008 Marden-Kane placed 9th among interactive agencies, propelled by increased engagement with clients who are using online as a primary strategy to promote their products and services.

New business wins and expanded interactive assignments from notable clients including: Microsoft, Build a Bear Workshop, L'Oreal, YouTube, and Google contributed to the rankings. "The work the agency is doing is reflective of the opportunities presenting themselves in User Generated Content and Social Media. We have used Facebook and Twitter as contest and instant win game platforms successfully to increase participation and to drive repeat visitation to the websites we build," explains Marty Glovin; SVP of Digital Innovations for Marden-Kane.

) October 9, 2009 -- USA TODAY installed LinkUp's Facebook App on its corporate Facebook page, allowing the company to tap into the power of social networking in its recruiting efforts. LinkUp's Facebook App, called 'Current-Jobs-at-Our-Company,' enables companies to automatically publish jobs from its corporate website onto its Facebook Fan page.

) February 19, 2009 -- MyNewPlace™, the Web's fastest growing apartment and home rentals site, today announced that it has added Facebook® Connect functionality to its Web site - allowing its users to get feedback on prospective apartments, condos and home rentals by posting property information to their Facebook page. MyNewPlace is the first real estate and apartments Web site to implement Facebook Connect, allowing consumers to tap into their social graphs to make more informed decisions about where to live.

) November 3, 2008 -- Gigya, Inc., the largest widget and content sharing platform for the social web, today announced that it has created a widget for the Interactive Advertising Bureau The IAB widget was designed to provides easy access to the latest IAB news, upcoming events, standards and guidelines, and a feed of the IABlog, a recognized industry news blog featuring commentary from IAB President and CEO Randall Rothenberg

IAB Widget by Gigya

) May 22, 2009 -- These days, it's hard to know what's a new trend and what's a temporary fad. But expert opinion and thorough case studies agree: social media marketing is a cost-effective way to combine marketing and market research, and it's here to stay.

) November 1, 2008 -- Hanging out online is not just for kids anymore. Customers are writing about products on blogs, reviewing businesses on Yelp, joining fan clubs on Facebook, and cutting up corporate commercials on YouTube in record numbers. It's a social phenomenon - the groundswell - that is creating a permanent shift in the way the world works, plays, lives, and thinks.

a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other rather than traditional institutions like corporations.

) October 20, 2008 -- Room214, a Google-certified search marketing and social media agency, has chosen the Radian6 platform for social media monitoring for several of its clients. The firm will use Radian6 to capture online conversations and help steward its clients online reputation.

Radian6's social media monitoring platform gathers real-time-as-discovered information from across the social web, including blogs, video sharing sites, boards and forums, and emerging media such as FriendFeed and Twitter.

Baxa, a leading developer of technology for the safe handling, packaging and administration of fluid medications, announces the launch of a new Facebook Page designed to influence a change in patient and medication safety practices. Businesses and brands can create a Facebook Page to share information, interact with fans and create a highly engaging, optimized presence in social media. (PRWeb Aug 10, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2717824.htm

) September 9, 2009 -- The Fall 2009 issue of Visibility Magazine is now available, and this quarter's issue focuses in on a internet marketing trend that is sweeping the globe, Social Media. Twitter is beginning to join Facebook as a household name. This has left businesses wondering what it means for them, and the internet strategy already in place. This issue includes articles from two SEO companies explaining the connections between search engine optimization and social media. Even more, Tim Kendall of Facebook explains how social media can improve conversions for your site. Take a look at our feature articles below.

) December 13, 2008 -- Social Media Power, a Web 2.0 and social media development firm based in Austin, TX, announces the launch of Plumb Social. Plumb Social is Social Media Power's answer to the need of entrepreneurs, small business owners, authors, and publishers to create their own presence in the Social Web without consuming large amounts of time and resources.

) August 4, 2009 -- KIPL.Net is primarily a turnkey New Media Consulting firm for more then a decade based in India and Singapore.

Given below is the link for recently launched Social Application 'Bloodbank on Facebook'. This will be one of the KIPL.Net's 20th applications in the past few months on Social Networks.

URL: http://apps.facebook.com/onlinebloodbank/

The same is the first ever easy use to Blood Bank Application on Face book ever designed by any Indian firm.

Given below are some of things KIPL.Net does in the New Media Space.

) March 20, 2009 -- Although there are scores of search engine marketing (SEM) sessions and workshops at Search Engine Strategies (SES) New York 2009, including ones on search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per click (PPC) advertising, the conference agenda also features a Twitter keynote, a Facebook workshop, plus a Social Media & Blogging Track.

Coffeewiz, a New Jersey-based single serve coffee and gourmet loose leaf tea online/e-commerce retailer, has launched a Facebook Fan Page as part of their latest Social Media Effort.

) September 18, 2009 -- Holosfitness.com now offers the ability to seamlessly connect the site with Facebook. New technology available on the site allows individuals to instantly create a profile on Holosfitness.com by leveraging their existing Facebook profile. For existing members, Holosfitness.com has created tools that make it easier to use the site.

Simply click on the Facebook Connect button on the top right of the Holosfitness.com profile page and the system will automatically link the user's Holosfitness.com and Facebook accounts. As a result, users will now be logged into Holosfitness.com whenever they are logged into Facebook. This simple step can make it easier to navigate between the two sites.