Dave Fleet

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Where does content fit in Facebook’s new marketing model?

Dave Fleet

While impressions/reach aren’t publicly visible numbers, Fangager put out an analysis of the “ 100 most engaging brands on Facebook ” late last year, showing that even the engaging brands generally had between 0.3% Sound crazy? The average percentage of ‘active fans’ in the top ten most engaging brands is 1.5%.

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Cooks Source: How to Avoid an Unnecessary Crisis

Dave Fleet

Thousands of people posted comments to the Cooks Source Facebook page, which went from a couple of hundred fans to three and a half thousand “fans&# over the next two days. These comments rapidly turned from general outrage to quite offensive mockery. The response when Gaudio posted this email was jaw-dropping.

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

I was pleased to see that Compete responded, multiple times — in a comment on my post; via a tweet and then subsequently in email. Comment on my original post : Hi Dave – Matt here, Client Relations Director at Compete.com. So, where do we go for analysis of the rest? What do you think?

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Lies, Damned Lies and Mis-understood Statistics

Dave Fleet

The original data is useful because the analysis is conducted at an aggregate level, over 630 respondents. Despite this, there’s no mention of these details on the post or comments; just an assumption that the numbers are correct. This follow-up chart in the post, however, is next to useless. Why is this chart useless?

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From One to a Million: Managing Social Media at Scale

Dave Fleet

When you begin to activate social at large scale, statistical analysis of content and program performance can yield invaluable insights. I’d love to know what you think, though – let me know in the comments below.