Sherrilynne Starkie

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Why your social media isn’t working

Sherrilynne Starkie

It meant no promoted content, a limited use of stories and no analytics. The analytics revealed that Facebook wasn’t referring any traffic to the website and so no online lead generation from a highly-engaged community. It turns out a personal profile had been set up. This limited how Instagram could be used.

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One week until Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

There is just one more week until the third annual Social Capital Ottawa, a one-day conference for O-city’s active social media community. I’m also moderating a round table discussion on analytics and digging deep to gain real insight. It takes place next Saturday, June 1st at Algonquin College. Social Capital Ottawa.

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How to be smart on Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

The key to realising the true value of Twitter as a communications channel lies in understanding how and why key stakeholders use the social network. Start by taking a good look the Twitter community. Understand the mix of followers in terms of the sizes of their own communities. Take the time to think it through.

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Lac-MĂ©gantic: social media lessons learned

Sherrilynne Starkie

For the people of Lac-MĂ©gantic, the absence of official news, facts and information drove them into hastily formed online communities where hard facts were served up in equal measure alongside rumours and hearsay…all leading to confusion and panic in an already fraught situation. Photo credit: Abode of Chaos).

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

These include new job alerts, an alumni tool, community hashtags and company insights. SEO remains an important part of digital marketing communications practices. 4 Twitter is developing new analytics dashboards. LinkedIn is a crucial platform for businesses. — SS. 3 Links are still crucial for ranking in Google.

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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Big data matters to you as humans and a community and as a marketer,” Young told the audience of senior marketing strategists. Young concluded, “It’s a culture of shared contact between organizations and their communities. Don’t do big data analytics alone, says expert. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). Related articles.

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Analytics: what are you really learning?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Last week at Social Capital Ottawa I moderated rountable discussions on analytics and digging deep to gain real insight. It was clear from those who participated that people are using and are keenly interested in analytics, but that information they are gleaning is largely superficial. This is smart thinking. Related articles.

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