yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 19, 2012

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.

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Trends Marketing Mobile Wireless 279

Firebelly

DECEMBER 11, 2012

With as quickly as things move on social media sites, there are going to be mistakes. Learn about some of the biggest ones brands made in 2012 (as well as lessons learned) in these must-reads. 11 Biggest Social Media Disasters of 2012. Lessons Learned: The Top 10 Twitter Mistakes of 2012.

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Social Media Social Networking Campaign Organization 193

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 31, 2012

What social media stats got the most attention in the last year? According to our traffic-counting elves, here are the top social media statistics we published in the last year: Twitter Hits 500 Million Registered Users (Feb 24): Approximately 12.3 billion internet users by the end of 2012.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 18, 2012

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge.

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Social Media Statistics Mobile B2B 280

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 11, 2012

Tweet Recently, Awarness Inc released a report called The State of Social Media Marketing : Top Areas For Social Marketing Investment and Biggest Social Marketing Challenges in 2012. The It compares the state of social media in 2011 and expectations from 2012, based on this survey.

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The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Have you shared your favorite song of 2012? Social marketing solutions company Hyperactivate.com has created “the world’s first social media music mosaic” — powered by Spotify, the project aims to share everyone’s favorite tunes in 2012 via an interactive, social media collaboration.

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Social Media Project Collaboration Hashtag 142

Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Adrian Domocos is a marketer with 10+ years of experience in both large (multinational) and smaller companies (startups). The SMSsummit team was able to chat with Adrian about his experience building out the Hot in Social Media blog and what advice he has for other marketers interested in building out their own blog.

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Social Media Startup Resources SEO 246

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 15, 2012

A year ago, Cheryl Burgess and I published the first #Nifty 50 award winners, starting with the #Nifty50 Women of Twitter on this blog in May 2011 and followed by the #Nifty50 Men of Twitter published on Cheryl’s Blue Focus Marketing blog in June. Nominate your favorite technology twitterer using this form.

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Twitter iPad Apple B2B 188

Sherrilynne Starkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

February 17: this week in social media. Ottawa’s Twitter top 20 for 2012. 17 essential social media guidelines to follow. 17 essential social media guidelines to follow. 100 Content Marketing Tools for PRs: From Content Marketing Software to Content Curation. via @listly.

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Social Media Guidelines Curation Newsletter 312

Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

In a previous blog post , Jonas made a summary of a report called “The State of Social Media Marketing” from January 2012 in which he outlined the key points and conclusions drawn from the report. As in the beginning of 2012 the big three – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – remain at the top positions.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We don’t have to tell you that social media is an industry that changes almost daily. At any given moment, there are new tools, platform updates, improved tracking, and several 2020 social media trends are emerging now that point to our industry being one of constant movement. Source: PEW Surveys conducted 2012-2019.

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Akamai Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2011

This is the 2nd year that I’ve published my social media resolutions. Fine Tune Karma for Business: I kept at this social media mantra this year and it worked for me and it worked for my clients. I’m pleased with the social media story telling this year. Here’s my 2011 scorecard: ?

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Social Media Vimeo Creative Commons Platform 186

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The team at Awareness (who offer social media management software I like a lot), recently published a terrific, free ebook of 2012 social media predictions. Paul Gillin ( B2B social media guru). Doug Haslam (good guy despite being a Red Sox fan – read his great post on social ROI ).

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Social Media eBook Mobile Data 121

Sherrilynne Starkie

APRIL 20, 2013

AT a recent IABC Ottawa professional development event, speaker Melissa Carroll, the person behind the Montreal Police Service ’s (SPVM) Twitter account during the 2012 student protests against tuition fee increases, explained that social media can really move people. The demonstration went smoothly. That was amazing.”.

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Social Media Hashtag Eventful Journal 320

Visually SM

AUGUST 19, 2020

A big part of succeeding in Digital Marketing is finding out the right channels to promote your brand. But with so many social media platforms out there, how can your company make such a big decision? In this guide, you will understand why it is so important to have social media profiles for your business.

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Social Media Brands Reddit Platform 130

Mindjumpers

JANUARY 10, 2012

Tweet Beginning of 2012 has brought in a lot of predictions and opportunities. Another chance to look at the social media universe, analyse the trends and make the strategies. 25-34 year olds are now the largest age group on Facebook as we enter 2012, with users under 17 years making up just 5% of the user base.

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Social Media Statistics MySpace Tumblr 273

The Social Media Incubator

AUGUST 3, 2012

According to Twitter’s UK Blog , there were more mentions (tweets) on the day of the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics than there were during the entire 2008 Beijing Olympics. The numbers are captivating, but how else have the Internet and social media affected the Olympic games?

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Social Media News Mobile Eventful 111

Direct Marketing Observations

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Last week in a very thought provoking Tweetchat hosted by Lisa Petrilli , the discussion, though swirling around how an introvert uses social media, somehow segued into driving website traffic. 1) Driving traffic - The challenge in 2011 is the same in 2012. Marketers and brands will need to land the plane in 2012.

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Brands Discount Sites SEO 176

Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 2, 2013

And, while the awards show and its host, Seth McFarlane , were both widely criticized even as the broadcast was just going out for being boring, badly written and not funny, it was a clear, out-of-the-ballpark content marketing success for the global entertainment industry. That’s the connection that social media brings.

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Content Film Marketing Loyalty 317

Jason Yormark

MAY 7, 2012

I’ve worked on my fair share of social media campaigns, and every once in awhile, a project comes my way that I have an extra ounce of vested interest in making a success. They turned to social media as an area to focus on and I had the opportunity to craft and implement a plan for them.

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The Realtime Report

APRIL 7, 2014

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: Vine adds direct messaging via video (photo: Vine blog). ’s SecondSync; teams from both will join Twitter’s London office (WSJ). Let us know in the comments below.

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News Types Nielsen Social Media 176

The Realtime Report

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days – CNN reported on this as early as 2009. Now, with the drought of 2012 creating extreme conditions for farmers across a great swath of the U.S.,

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API Education Social Media Research 178

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2016

Social media use isn’t quite universal—but it’s getting close. population now has at least one social networking profile; more than half use two or more social networks. The number of worldwide social media users is projected to grow from 2.1 70% of the U.S. billion last year to 2.5

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Mindjumpers

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Its round shape, blackish color and white cream stuffing have undeniably added to its success but as a social media agency we wonder: where would the crowd-pleasing, twistable cookie be today without effective social media marketing? 2012 was the year that America’s favorite cookie turned 100. Here’s why….

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Today’s guest post comes from Hazel Fogg, creative social media manager and editor at Academic Brits. Just recently she started to create her first social media course. Thanks to Hazel for sharing her thoughts on the use of humor in social media. They don’t want to be sold to.

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Social Media Meme Advertising Strategy 220

The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Mobile advertising spending will total more than $4 billion by the end of 2012, according to eMarketer estimates. And new research by Millennial Media reveals that certain industries have seen tremendous growth (more than 400% year-over-year) in mobile advertising. Do you agree? Do you agree?

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Mobile Automotive Sports Travel 170

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 15, 2012

A year ago, Cheryl Burgess and I published the first #Nifty 50 award winners, starting with the #Nifty50 Women of Twitter on this blog in May 2011 and followed by the #Nifty50 Men of Twitter published on Cheryl’s Blue Focus Marketing blog in June. Nominate your favorite technology twitterer using this form.

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Twitter iPad B2B Apple 101

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2018

“She does social media,” is the go-to introduction my friends bestow on me at parties. Currently, I don’t directly manage any brand’s social media channels, though I have in the past. As the resident social media expert person, I blurted out, “Of course! We already use “social” in isolation.

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Social Media Consultant YouTube Instagram 154

Unmetric

APRIL 2, 2019

At Unmetric, we do something called the #UnmetricBrandStars on Twitter and Facebook. Each day, we trawl through brand posts and feature the most engaging post by a brand on our social handles. While these posts are well-received on Facebook , only a small number of people engage on Twitter. Why is BTS so famous? The rise of BTS.

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Social Media Brands Marketing Tourism 97

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Here are my top 10 posts of 2012 by pageviews: The Best Free Tools for Twitter Analytics. 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO. The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012. Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video). 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages. Have a great 2013.

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Press Release SEO Digg Sports 119

Mindjumpers

DECEMBER 11, 2012

As you may know, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and to some degree Google are blocked in China. A survey done in 2012 by McKinsey, showed that 95 percent of those living in Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 cities are registered on a social media site and proves at the same time to be the most active users.

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Social Media Privacy Nielsen Social Networking 254

Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

Social media education and training. Social Intelligence. The number of social media monitoring tools has exploded and at last count there were over 200 on the market. Johns Hopkins Medicine, like most companies and organizations, started in social media without much of a strategy.

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Trends Social Media Social Graph Analysis 103

Pixlee

AUGUST 10, 2020

TikTok marketing is one of the top new tactics for video-obsessed marketers to try in 2020. Even if you’re a little late to the social media party and just learning how to use TikTok for marketing, understanding this channel isn’t difficult. . Creating Compelling Content on TikTok.

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Video Marketing UGC Hashtag 98

Proactive Report

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Today I am going back to the four social media trends Beverly Macy predicted would be hot in 2012 in the Huffington Post. The rise of Social Intelligence. Social media education and training. Social Media Intelligence is a sure bet in my view – see this post. Measurement.

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Analytics Trends Social Media ROI 92

The Realtime Report

JULY 11, 2012

Burberry, a “digital darling” among luxury brands, recently launched its Autumn/Winter 2012 collection across 10 different social platforms, according to L2. million followers on Twitter, nearly 38,000 subscribers on YouTube (and over 14.6 YouTube has a series of short films about the collection.

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Campaign Platform Social Media Microblogging 189

Firebelly

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Below are 5 social media must-reads that we wouldn’t want you to miss. Twitter’s Fly Redesign Aims To Be Faster, Simpler. By Laurie Segall When co-founder Jack Dorsey returned to Twitter earlier this year, he announced that his top priority would be to improve the service’s user experience.

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Social Media Blogosphere Foursquare Discount 168

Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

As of 2012, social is already too big to ignore. In the beginning of this year, Sara predicted that 2012 would be the year of visual communication – and she was quite right. US digital media usage: A snapshot of 2013. Not surprisingly, social network usage, e-commerce as well as social gaming is growing.

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Social Media Nielsen Aggregator Mobile 269