Jeff Esposito

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Gilda’s Club: What went wrong?

Jeff Esposito

As a result, the Cancer Support Community (CSC), which merged with Gilda’s Club in 2009, issued a media statement. In this poorly written missive, it came to light the CSC allows its local affiliates to call themselves one of three names (Gilda’s Club, The Wellness Community, or Cancer Support Community). Terse in tone.

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Facebook’s the crack and we’re all greedy junkies

Jeff Esposito

The change triggered a lot of negative blog posts in the social media and community management communities. What we were all victim of is that we built communities on Mark Zuckerberg’s platform for two reasons. Facebook and the social media echo-chamber have failed the small business community in how to use the platform.

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Cops harass 5-year old for late library books, news bloopers and IKEA sleepover – oh my

Jeff Esposito

IKEA Hosts Sleepover For 100 Lucky Facebook Fans – file this one under oddities from across the pond, while also being a good social campaign and listening to your community. While I would love to say I feel bad for Best Buy, I do not. Since they lost a business order of mine a few years ago I have not went near their joints.

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Is a social media contest right for you?

Jeff Esposito

Large brands and companies with established social presences have communities that they can tap into. Brands that are out of the limelight, charities and small businesses looking to add a contest to their repertoire need to determine if there is a strong enough community for the contest.

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Facebook will not replace websites

Jeff Esposito

Stephen Haines of Facebook notes , “companies’ interactions with their customers could take place so often on Facebook that company websites would fall by the wayside,” but I am not buying it. push it towards your own cultivated community that plays on the world’s top social network.

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How do you deal with the social customer?

Jeff Esposito

This includes not only building a community and conversation with customers but also monetizing and measuring the effectiveness of the company’s efforts. Featured speakers include David Meerman Scott and Jeremy Owyang , who will discuss social media strategy and present case studies on brands like Best Buy and Verizon.

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Measuring your social output

Jeff Esposito

On Facebook, the Insights tool mentioned above allows you to drill down to see what builds the most engagement among your community. If you are working with a product team on building a social strategy, a great measurable is to track product bugs and fixes identified by the community at large. Quality assurance. What are you measuring?

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