The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. million soccer fans back in 2010.

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The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Cape Town Tourism launched a new Facebook travel app this week, designed to allow “virtual visits” to the city through a user’s Facebook profile. The campaign launched this past Monday (October 2) and will run until the end of December 2012. Watch a video explaining the campaign here:

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Since then, Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has only continued to grow. And with the difficulty to provide sufficient regulation and oversight to social media, many people have become frustrated with Facebook. In 2012, Facebook became the first social media network to ever surpass one billion monthly users.

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Unmetric

APRIL 2, 2019

We believe it will provide other brands inspiration for their own creative briefs and campaigns. A few days back, our social media manager chose Mattel, a US-based toy manufacturing company, as the Brand Star of the day for their tweet on BTS-based dolls. Why are their fans—the self-proclaimed BTS Army—so loyal? The rise of BTS.

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Bare Feet Studios

MAY 31, 2012

We are so thrilled to be one of the three finalists for the 2012 Annual Pacific Edge Magazine business awards: best social media campaign. As founder of the Hawaii chapter of the Social Media Club (SMCHI) , I am giddy happy that four of our members are finalists in the overall awards.

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Bare Feet Studios

JANUARY 1, 2012

This past year, I was hired by the Lānaʻi Visitors Bureau (LVB) to run a social media marketing campaign for them, based on a very original concept created in discussion with Mr. Keliʻi Brown, who is the PR director for the Maui Visitors Bureau (MVB). I am starting on this blog, as this is the easy one! (I

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

What are the most common social media questions marketers get asked? We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. Can social media really be a full-time job?

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