October, 2012

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Remembering Michael O’Connor Clarke

Dave Fleet

Michael O’Connor Clarke passed away this morning, sadly losing his battle with the esophagael cancer that he was diagnosed with this summer. I knew Michael both as a friend and as a colleague. From memory, I believe we first met online in 2007, through social media channels that were a shared passion between us. It wasn’t until mid-2008 that we met in person when work brought us together, but when we first met I remember it being as though we’d known each other for years.

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Win a ticket to IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop

Sherrilynne Starkie

Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada. Seen from the corner of Sussex and Rideau. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Here’s your chance to win a free ticket to an IABC 2012 Canada Business Summit preconference workshop. The summit takes place November 1-3 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. The November 1st there are six diverse and interactive pre-conference workshops, and featuring top experts discussing a wide range of topics including career planning, internal and strategic communications, insights o

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How to Adjust to Facebook’s Changes in the EdgeRank Algorithm

Mindjumpers

During the past month, there has been a lot of discussions regarding the change in Facebook EdgeRank algorithm related to brand pages. Since September 20 th , numerous of page owners have written blog posts, articles and comments to express their concern regarding a quite serious decrease in their posts’ reach by up to 50%. In response to an e-mail from EdgeRank Cracker , a Facebook Ad Rep wrote: “We’re continually optimizing News Feed to ensure the most relevant experience for our users.

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Shhh…Don’t Tell. You Can Still Post Your Tweets To Other Platforms

SocMed Sean

Shhh… photo courtesy of Sarah G on Flickr via Creative Commons license. Recently, Twitter has been behaving pretty anti-socially with their data. For a company that is engaged in the business of social media (which means sharing things), they recently restricted how developers can use their API. Needless to say, a lot of people are pretty miffed about this behavior from one of the big social media companies.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Five Social Media Haters We Love To Hate

Firebelly

Social media haters are familiar to those of us who do social media on a regular basis. These are the people who, for whatever reason, aren’t just content to never use social media, but think that everyone else is a raging lunatic for even using it. These are the five social media haters you will frequently encounter whenever you pull out your smart phone and start sending a tweet.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Kate Endress. Facebook has been struggling since its IPO in May. Its stock has been almost cut in half, GM dropped a $10M ad deal, and Google is nipping at its heels with the purchase of Wildfire. Facebook was not initially built to monetize; it was built to go viral. The company is betting on huge advertising growth in the next five years, and many people, including myself, are skeptical.

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Study shows social media drives sales

Sherrilynne Starkie

Research released today by LoyaltyOne and two leading North American academic institutions provides the long-awaited proof that social media interaction between a customer and a brand drives immediate and long-term sales increases. The Air Miles program logo in Canada since 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). The findings are based on a two-year analysis of brand-customer social media engagement and transaction data with the more than 10-million member AIR MILES Reward Program.

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Carlsberg Launches Crowdit: A Non-Branded Mobile App

Mindjumpers

We frequently see companies making use of mobile apps to promote their brand. Either by developing their own app, such as Converse’s The Sampler or by sponsoring already existing apps, such as Procter & Gamble sponsoring SitOrSquat. Today, Carlsberg launches a different kind of branded mobile app: a non-branded app. An app with no trace of Carlsberg in the design, no green colours and no Carlsberg logo.

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The Best SEO Advice I’ve Seen in a Long Time…Relevance is the new PR

Direct Marketing Observations

This morning’s thought: “I now need to go back and look at all my recent SEO work.” I like the competition of search. Every day is different and you have the ability and or the chance to “win” so to speak. It’ similar to watching the standings in Major League Baseball. Some days you may gain on the competition, other days you lose ground, and still others, nothing changes.

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Big Data and Why its #fail for CMOs who just hang-out with their creative agencies!

Atom Thought

90% of the data in the world has been created in the last 2 years alone! What does that mean? That most of our knowledge of the world, and consumers is very new and it’s a dynamic view, given the pace of knowledge creation in such a short period. This huge pile of data, streams.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Startup Weekend (India): Social Entrepreneurship in Action

Waxing UnLyrical

So what did you do last weekend? Partied? Slept all day? Relaxed? Took the kids & wife to the Mall? I’m sure whatever you did was interesting but I… … I attended Startup Weekend in New Delhi. Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities.

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Is Twitter Trying To Be Like Facebook?

Firebelly

Over the last month or so Twitter has designed its platform to compete with ever changing Facebook. Many have their opinions about the redesign, but it’s the right move for Twitter to allow users to tell their stories more visually. New Twitter Features: Header Image: The new header image on a Twitter profile ressembles Facebook’s cover image.

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New LinkedIn Endorsements

Sherrilynne Starkie

LinkedIn, the professional social network, has recently introduced ‘endorsements’, a feature that makes it easier for people to recognize their connections’ skills and expertise. With just one click, a person can endorse a connections for a skill they’ve listed on their profile or recommend one they haven’t added yet. So if a connection lists ‘crisis management’ under the Skills & Expertise section of their LinkedIn profile , it is almost effortless to confirm t

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Facebook Testing ‘Want’ Button: What to Expect

Mindjumpers

This week, Facebook officially introduced the ‘Want’ button and started testing it with a list of seven selected brands, including Victoria’s Secret, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn etc. The new system, which also includes a third button, a ‘Collect’ button, has the potential to transform the way brands use Facebook to influence purchase decisions, promote their products and engage with their current loyal fans and potential buyers.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Teens on Social Networks: Facebook Wins, But Twitter Is Narrowing the Gap

The Realtime Report

A recent Piper Jaffray survey of American teens revealed that Facebook is still the most popular social network among this age group – but Twitter is following close behind. Teens were asked to rank social networks in order of preference (from 1 to 3) from a list including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and LinkedIn.

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Birth of the Chief Marketing Technology Officer

Atom Thought

Not long back, it used to be a pain creating a special promo page on a corporate website, adding some content,or starting a blog for the business, creating a promo mail id, analyzing traffic data or even putting a small 3 field form!

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10 Observations on “Real” Public Relations and Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

Monday, Oct. 15, will see me complete six months since I started at MSL Washington DC. I know many of you have wondered how I’ve been doing, and honestly, there’s no short answer to that question (though if you pressed me, I’d say “mostly good”). I’ve been (am) busy, and tired (oh, so tired!). And a few realizations keep coming to me, as I continue to settle into my new life.

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Visualizing Viral Imagery Spread On Facebook

Firebelly

Stamen , a design and technology studio, has put together a series of videos visualizing the spread of content (originally posted by George Takei) being shared across Facebook. The data used for the visualizations spans a three-month period from July to September. These are definite must-sees for data lovers and artists alike. You can view all three on the Facebook Stories website.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Gartner: fake social media reviews

Sherrilynne Starkie

Checking online reviews has become a normal part of consumer purchasing decisions, and so, companies are paying for or faking these reviews to gain favour and influence preference. By 2014, we could see up to 15 per cent of all online reviews being ‘faked’, according to Gartner, the research company. (Photo credit: Wikipedia). “With over half of the Internet’s population on social networks, organizations are scrambling for new ways to build bigger follower bases, generate more

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Social Media Needs Local Activation!

Mindjumpers

The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series. Mindjumpers Network is a global network of local country community managers enabling international companies to execute and maintain brand communities in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way across markets with the aim of creating effect and value. This post is written by Fredrik Olimb, Local Community Manager from Norway and part of Mindjumpers Network.

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70% Of Users Visit Pinterest For Inspiration On What To Buy

The Realtime Report

Pinterest beats out Facebook as a destination for shopping inspiration, tracking and product discovery, according to a new study by Bizrate Insights. And within these categories, the gap between the two social networks is quite large. Nearly 7 in 10 online consumers who visit Pinterest have found an item they’ve purchased or wanted to purchase, compared to only 40% of online consumers who visit Facebook.

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How an internet start-up is marketing itself to the media!

Atom Thought

TheWhizTimes, a unique platforms for kids and families, initiated a very innovative PR campaign this week. Before we talk about that, here is a brief about thewhiztimes.com TheWhizTimes.com, started by an ex-Nokia Head of earned Media and a social and online media veteran-Shalabh Pandey in Singapore, plugs a very relevant gap in today’s society and.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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From #HungertoHope on World Food Day

Waxing UnLyrical

As public relations professionals, there are a lot of different kinds of things we have to do, and not all of them are fun. But last week, I had the opportunity to attend (completely by accident) a World Food Programme event at the State Department , where Hillary Clinton, Christina Aguilera and David Novak (Yum! Brands… and how ironic is it that he’s the only person for whom I felt the need to attach an affiliation?

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Facebook Edgerank Changes & Rumors: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Like many in the blogosphere, I noticed a “September slump” in regard to reach on some of the Facebook pages I manage. Many have speculated that Facebook changed their Edgerank algorithm so that organic reach of brand updates was decreased – forcing brands into pay to play visibility via promoted posts. Get the scoop in today’s roundup.

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Pinterest leads Facebook in retail customer aquisition

Sherrilynne Starkie

Sixty-nine per cent of online consumers who visit Pinterest found an item they’ve purchased, or want to purchase, compared to just forty per cent of online consumers who visit Facebook and found the same, according to the latest study in the Bizrate Insights Image Sharing and Shopping Series. In terms of online shopping audiences, Facebook is much larger than Pinterest by a ratio of almost four to one, however the study found that Pinterest provides a better experience for shopping disco

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What Made Oreo’s “Daily Twist” Campaign So Engaging?

Mindjumpers

What in my opinion is one of the best campaigns of the year just ended: The Oreo “ Daily Twist ” campaign. To celebrate the centennial of the world’s most iconic biscuit, Oreo teamed up with agency 360i to create a social and digital campaign with 100 days of creative and whimsical visualisations of “America’s favourite cookie” from June 25th until October 2nd.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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Facebook Brand Engagement Grows 896% Year-Over-Year

The Realtime Report

A new study by Adobe found that brand engagement (defined as likes, comments, and shares) on Facebook rose 896% year-over-year. Mobile engagement is also way up; around one-quarter of Facebook engagement came from mobile users. What led to the increase in brand engagement? Adobe’s 2012 Global Digital Advertising Update offers three reasons: format changes made in the last three quarters (Facebook Timeline). use of new acquisition and engagement metrics. more effective social marketing by

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The New CMO!

Atom Thought

Forrestor and Heidrick & Struggles Global CMO survey of 2011 (200 CMOs) outlined 2 great opportunities for the CMOs : 1. Beef up digital & technical understanding: The survey showed that digital & technical skills are second most important skills to acquire on the CMOs agenda. This is especially critical for various startups where the.

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The True Secret of Networking and Making Business Connections

Waxing UnLyrical

I returned a couple of days ago to the DC area after a whirlwind trip to San Francisco and the 2012 PRSA International Conference. I hope I’ll have the time/mind space to write more about my experience(s) there, but this is something I’ve been thinking about, and wanted to share. Crowded mart, crowded mind. There are a ton of conferences that take place.

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Hurricane Sandy & Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

When a natural disaster strikes, social media sites are is often the first place people go to find, and share, information. Here are 5 must-reads on Hurricane Sandy and social media. Facebook, Twitter abuzz with Sandy chatter, photos. By Barbara Ortutay Whether you call it Frankenstorm, Stormpocalypse or simply Hurricane Sandy, the giant weather system barreling into the East Coast is a favorite topic of conversation on social media from Facebook to Twitter.

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7 Reasons To Create Engaging Birthday Emails

Idaconcpts

There are a lot of email marketing tactics that can help build strong relationships with potential buyers. Using free email templates to create engaging birthday emails is one of the most effective ways to keep in touch with the customer. So organize a birthday club and start providing targeted messages at the right time to the right people. Here are seven most important reasons to get creative with birthday emails.