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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care?

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Unmetric joins the Falcon & Cision Family

Unmetric

In 2011, we set out to elevate the way marketers create and analyze their social media strategies. It began when I was at my previous company in the enterprise peer-to-peer data backup space. Brands were concerned about things like audience sizes and how fast they were growing their communities. From this, Unmetric was born.

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Why ROI isn’t everything with social media

Socialmedia.biz

In 2011, 60% of consumers with purchasing intent were using various social media platforms for researching products, learning more about a specific retailer and reading product reviews. Why should you go beyond the conventional ROI metrics of success?

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The 6 Step Process for Measuring Social Media

Convince & Convert

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. For a full and very specific account of how to measure social media in your company, pick up a copy of The Now Revolution , or Social Media ROI (by Olivier Blanchard). Select Metrics.

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The 6 Step Process for Measuring Social Media

Convince & Convert

For a full and very specific account of how to measure social media in your company, pick up a copy of The Now Revolution , or Social Media ROI (by Olivier Blanchard). However, here are the basics to consider, drawn from my presentation “How to Hug Your Calculator&# last week at Social Media Success Summit 2011. Select Metrics.

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Monday Roundup: Lessons from Avinash Kaushik

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: “You must incentivize optimal behavior, so you don’t focus on meaningless metrics such as likes,” says Avinash in this interview for Quartz. Why: When I featured this post in a roundup back in 2011 , I described it as personable, funny and really easy to read despite its long length. ” 4.