Event-related communication has always been at the heart of social media, from Twitter’s debut at SXSW in 2007 to the everyday sharing of check-ins, meals and parties in Foursquare and Facebook, to Oreo’s big marketing win with a single tweet during the 2013 Superbowl. As my colleague Daniel Honigman pointed out to me today, for…
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Even the best general models don’t solve specific problems of practice, but they should be useful in guiding thinking around specific problems. This particular model proposes a standard path for building value from social media practices within organizations. Each of the practices has inherent value for particular organizational problems of practice, and each additional practice…
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There are two primary and interdependent activities in social media management: communication and intelligence collection. These activities are interdependent because the style and quality of your communication will influence the context and content of your networks and the intelligence you are thus able to collect from those networks. Very simply, a communication approach that establishes…
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Yes, another post about Empire Avenue – but only because it presents such an interesting little laboratory to examine the valuation of social media activity. In this week’s leader-board analysis, I noted that some of the leading brands in EA were not making purchases in their investors or other EA players. This lack of reciprocation…
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David Armano recently posted a nice concise summary of the paths organizations need to take in order to scale their social engagement from experiment to success. The top path is business planning – setting objectives and expected outcomes and defining the resources and structures that will make these objectives happen. The middle path is strategy…
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Jumo, a new cause-driven social networking site launched in beta on Tuesday by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, shows some promise on first glance as a cause curator, wrapping a lot of information into a nice simple package. However, it is not immediately clear how the site will go beyond making introductions and providing information (worthy…
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I’ve been cautioned at being too literal, so maybe I’m taking this question too seriously. Could be “just a matter of semantics” as they say, but as I think about new communications and measurement, I keep getting stuck on trying to meet one of the new standards. Many social media strategists, most prominently Brian Solis…
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