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[Interview] How Microsoft Uses Social Analytics, And How You Can Too

Audiense

Ben Donkor is a social media analyst at Microsoft, and is adamant about the importance of social media analytics for all businesses. In this exclusive chat you will discover why social analytics is something every organisation should be looking at, how Microsoft are using it, and how you can start. How can we connect them?

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The complete guide to using LinkedIn Groups

Sprout Social

And LinkedIn audiences have twice the buying power of the average online audience. For example, if you enter the query “Microsoft Excel,” you will find “Microsoft Excel Users” under Groups at the top of the search results. Microsoft Excel Users has clear, concise rules of conduct.

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Paying Homage to the Social Technographics Ladder

Ignite Social Media

I clearly remember discussing this chart with folks from Microsoft before we started running the Windows social channels for them. Perhaps not unexpectedly, the main reason people don’t use Facebook is over privacy concerns, with nearly half of respondents listing that as a reason. Why Do People Not Use Facebook? .

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Facebook Acquired Messenger.com

Bill Hartzer

According to Whoisology , the messenger.com domain name was recently also in privacy: Name Private Registration|Account Privacy (2,600) (+120) Org. Related posts: Microsoft Buys Domains with Hyphens, Skips Domains without Hyphens Well, by now you probably know about how I feel. Gandy Blvd.,

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Social Data Analysis: The Pros and Cons of Social Data

Oktopost

75% of B2B buyers use social media to make buying decisions. You can collect data manually and use tools such as Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets to track metrics from the social networks you will analyze. Social Data Analysis Cons Data privacy Data security can be a challenge when collecting and analyzing social data.

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The Complete Guide to LinkedIn Events

Oktopost

We’ve all had to adapt to a new reality, but buying, selling, and hiring still needs to happen. LinkedIn Events is Microsoft’s (much anticipated) professional answer to Facebook Events. Microsoft has been entirely upfront about the fact that it is by no means product ready and still has some limitations and apparent bugs.

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iCloud Will Do For the Cloud as iPod Did for MP3s

Stay N' Alive

Microsoft started with their Mesh platform for syncing files across multiple devices and servers. With Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player I have to manually upload all my music to them to use their Cloud service (unless I buy the music from them, in Amazon's case). However, right now all these Cloud services are hacks.

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