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Social traffic is fantastic because: It’s highly targeted It’s immediate It’s low cost and often free The downside is because of it’s interactive nature (which contributes to it’s virality), spam marketers will always try to flood you, and drown out your message with their spam. This includes, but is not limited to:

Last week, I posted commentary about an article by John Lloyd in the Financial Times on the relationship - I used the word symbiosis: check the definition - between journalism and PR in politics.

Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates wants to see governments worldwide embrace the cost-savings available by implementing stronger IT infrastructures.

General Motors is on a mission to cut costs, and of course that means, cutting jobs. The corporation plans to cut about 25,000 jobs and close assembly and component plants in the U.S. over the next several years.

The National Australia Bank, which is Australia's largest bank, is cutting 4,200 jobs or 10% of its workforce over the course of the next two years.

AskJeeves last month began to implement a program to reduce the number of ads atop search results by 31%, a move intended to boost customer satisfaction and the bottom line.

Microsoft Geek Blogger Robert Scoble spoke to some journalism students at San Jose State and had some interesting advice.

Reducing hardware and maintenance costs while increasing system usage were the keys to Commonwealth Financial Network's recent server consolidation initiative.