Group Assignment: Post # 1

Blog:
http://hk.blog.yahoo.com/canon/
Canno creates a blog in yahoo to attract those guy who loves to take photos.They can post their own blog there to share their nice photos. And they can enjoy the benefits provided by Canon as well.

Interactive advertisement:
http://www.venetianmacao.com/tw/show/packages/pid/42
Venetian has posted an advertisment about their special package on Valentine's date.Users can simply click the advertisement in yahoo webpage and driect to Ventian. In their webpage, it can make revesation there directly.It is a kind of online partnership since Venettian has to paid for Yahoo for the advertisement.

Rss feed also appeared in their webite. By clicking the RSS feed box, we can choose our favourite information to see only. No need to waste time for seeing those content which is not interested.
In RSS feed of Venetian Macao, it has total 3 different categories to choose as below:http://www.venetianmacao.com/en/show/rss
To subscribe to The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel's News & Offers
To subscribe to The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel's Party Packages & Suite Packages
To subscribe to The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel's Business Events

Search engine:
http://www.google.com.hk/
Google is the most famous serach engine in the world.By typing what you want to seacrh in the search column, any webpage/photos/newsgroup will be found.

In Google, by typing IT in search bar, a link of advertisement will be shown as below:
贊助商連結
IBM - 中小企方案
IBM 為中小企提供業務及IT基建方案

Social networking
www.facebook.com
Nowadays, many on-line users will have facebook account. Once you open an acount, you can invite all of your friends in your page.In the menatime, you can meet your friends's friends too or some guys which have similar interest to you.

In facebook,UA finanace posted an ad on facebook,by clicking on the ad, it will direct you to a html page of a applicattion from of loan money.
http://www.uaf.com.hk/e_form_base.html

Gadget
http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/bbc-radio-iplayer-plus
We found a BBC radio widgets from Yahoo.The widgets shape like a I-phone.We can listen the BBC radio, choosing from different language and 24 hrs news in UK in this widgets.

Group Assignment: Post #1

Group Assignment: Post # 1
This week we looked at several Internet Marketing methods. Together with your groupmates, find a specific example of how a company is using each method below:
Blog
Interactive advertisement
Search engine
Online partnerships or affiliate marketing
RSS feeds
Social networking
GadgetsBy the way, the examples you find do not all have to come from the same company.In your group blog, list all the examples you find, together with links to each example. Also provide a description of the effectiveness of each example.