Dave Fleet

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Many people seemed to share the sentiment of my friend Jeremy Wright, who tweeted : FB has a fundamental responsibility to not disrupt their platform the week before Xmas. These two situations serve to reinforce a point I often make nowadays: Third-party social media tools have many advantages. However, you don’t own them.

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Facebook Commenting Platform: Pros and Cons For Businesses

Dave Fleet

Among the features Facebook has revealed: Social relevance – the new plugin uses what Facebook calls “social signals&# to prioritize comments on posts. Comments from people in your social graph, highly-liked comments and active threads rise to the top; those flagged as spam fall to the bottom.

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A Privacy-First Digital Marketing Landscape

Dave Fleet

This wound is mostly self-inflicted and the outcome of many compounding activities, but can be distilled to this: Marketers took advantage of the near-limitless data available as people spent more and more time online, but didn’t always stop to think about how people would feel about it. Social media issues just scratch the surface.

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Reflections on the changing digital agency environment

Dave Fleet

This was the period when the current platforms all launched, and it felt like there was a new social media tool or network emerging every week. It was such a time of change that I would come into work early each day and block off time to catch up on the latest social media news. Less “social”, more “media”.

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The Biggest Challenge Digital Communicators Face

Dave Fleet

This means both additional work to coordinate multiple agency partners, but also a need for much tighter integration between tactics, and as that happens the roles of different media are shifting ( Forrester’s Sean Corcoran wrote about this late last year). Tags: communications pr public relations social media strategy.

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Lessons along the road: 5 career pointers for new graduates

Dave Fleet

For me, it’s evolved over time… but it really started with social media. I remember writing a report in university on the potential for an early eCommerce retailer to better optimize their journey planning to anticipate customers’ purchasing behavior based on their past activities, and serve products to them accordingly.

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Top ten non-fiction book recommendations from 2022

Dave Fleet

Stephen Marche looks at a range of issues including politics, religion, and social media, and how these are fueling the divisions and tensions within the country. He delves into the world of propaganda, media manipulation, and political corruption, and how these are shaping the country’s future. Biographies.

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