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Institution of Engineering and Technology Seeks Out World’s Brightest Ideas in Information Technology, Start ups and Intelligent Systems

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has launched a worldwide search for the best innovations in Information Technology and Intelligent Systems for one of the industry’s most prestigious awards programmes – the Innovation Awards. By Nina Doehmel.

Five reasons to run your own virtual conferences

Gone are the days when prospects and customers were willing to travel significant distances to attend a conference. By Lisa Bennett.

The industry reflects on initial impact of Google’s Penguin 2.0 update

Google updated its Penguin algorithm update in May 2013, which the search giant estimates will have more impact than version 1.0. New Media Knowledge asked the search industry for its thoughts on initial findings from the first few weeks of life with “Penguin 2.0”. By Chris Lee.

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• Performance of social networking sites – Index from Keynote Systems for April 2013
• Online consumers call for real-time control of marketing communications
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• Customers “shun” social media for financial service contact

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