Tag Archives: Social Media

Twitter Getting CxO Buy In, Thanks To @Zappos

Great post on the rise of CEO/​​CMOs using Twit­ter: Twit­ter is yet another exam­ple of where brands have to accept a loss of control.

Real-​​Time Twitter Monitoring

Quick! What are peo­ple say­ing right now about your brand? Impos­si­ble to know, you say? Nah, not at all. Enter Side­line, “a Twit­ter app that lets you mon­i­tor and search what peo­ple are say­ing about your prod­uct in real time”.

The Future of PR — Really?

I found this fas­ci­nat­ing quote today: There’s an inter­est­ing topic being dis­cussed over on Web-​​​​Strategist.  Once again, Jere­miah Owyang chal­lenges us to think of a new par­a­digm that could change the way com­pa­nies relate and react to their customers. 

Choose Your Social Media Consultant With Care

Geoff Liv­ingston posted a great list of 25 ways to know whether you’ve got a strong Social Media Con­sul­tant or Agency. This was in response to the recent influx of “social media experts” enter­ing the space who are clearly unqual­i­fied and can cause more harm than good to your busi­ness. Some salient points for Marketing/​​Communications Man­agers to

Twitter Use Visualized

Do you use Twit­ter for busi­ness or per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion? Are you new to Twit­ter? What are peo­ple actu­ally doing on Twit­ter? Check out the new report by Mike Volpe of Hub­spot, State of the Twit­ter­verse A key graph from the report: Most Twit­ter users are new and 70% signed up in June 2008– If you’re a busi­ness

Family Social Media Network Sites Love Baby Boomers

From the last seven years of polling, we’ve found that what older peo­ple like best about the Inter­net is being able to con­nect to fam­ily and friends,” — Susan­nah Fox — Pew Inter­net & Amer­i­can Life Project and the Kaiser Fam­ily Foun­da­tion New fam­ily social net­works are pop­ping up almost every day. The real draw

The Case For Social Media Professionals

A recently spon­sored nation­wide online dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and inter­ac­tive adver­tis­ing sur­vey by Sapi­ent revealed some insight­ful results from its respon­dents. This was no mere web poll, the par­tic­i­pants were “more than 200 chief mar­ket­ing offi­cers (CMOs) and senior mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als, all of whom are either directly or indi­rectly respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing bud­get allo­ca­tion