News tagged with campaign
Informal social networks better at encouraging Hispanics to prepare for disasters, study finds
Dec 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lay health teachers who engaged Hispanics inside their social networks were more effective than mailers at encouraging participants to prepare disaster plans.
YouTube leads Google charge in display ad market
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Google on Tuesday outlined a strategy for seizing a bigger share of online display advertising that has long been a key stronghold for rival Yahoo!
Pandemic toolkit offers flu with a view
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As communities brace for rising wintertime influenza cases, scientists are developing a mathematical and visual analytic toolkit to help health officials quickly analyze pandemics and craft ...
Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.
Pandemic flu vaccine campaigns may be undermined by coincidental medical events
Oct 30, 2009 |
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The effectiveness of pandemic flu vaccination campaigns - like that now underway for H1N1 - could be undermined by the public incorrectly associating coincidental and unrelated health events with the vaccines.
Twitter user list favors Dems in Calif. gov race
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When people sign up for Twitter, the popular social-networking site presents a list of suggested users to follow, driving significant traffic to sports figures, celebrities, politicians and other prominent posters.
Verizon's big ad push for Android takes on iPhone
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An aggressive TV ad campaign from Verizon Wireless is adding to the support building for a software package from Google Inc. that is shaping up to be the most formidable challenge yet to Apple Inc.'s ...
Stanford analyses of flu pandemics project savings from earlier vaccinations
Oct 05, 2009 |
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In a city the size of New York, starting a vaccination campaign a few weeks earlier could save almost 600 lives and over $150 million, according to a study by scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Photoshopped Images Could Carry Warnings in France
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A law has been proposed in France that would see digitally enhanced images carry a warning to viewers that the image has been retouched to change the physical appearance of a person. The proposed ...
Yahoo to spend $100M in bid for more brand buzz
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Yahoo will spend more than $100 million in its latest attempt to rejuvenate one of the Internet's best-known brands.
People seek balanced political information to defend their positions
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When they know they will be engaged in a debate and have to defend their positions, anxious citizens seek out a balance of viewpoints about candidates, a new University of Michigan study shows.
Internet campaigning arrives cautiously in Japan
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Japan is one of the world's most Internet-savvy nations - except when it comes to politics. Decades-old rules have effectively banned campaigning on the Web.
Half of health workers reject swine flu shot
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, ...
New model for social marketing campaigns details why some information 'goes viral'
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marketers dream of finding ways to get something to "go viral" on the Internet. Indeed, viral marketing, whether it be through email, YouTube, Facebook or Twitter, has become the Holy Grail ...
Google launches rare ad campaign to sell more apps
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. is so well known that it has become a synonym for search, making advertising unnecessary. Getting businesses to buy Google's online suite of office applications requires a little more ...
