Sherrilynne Starkie

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Our Hamilton public engagement campaign turns PR disaster

Sherrilynne Starkie

The Ottawa-based public engagement consulting firm behind the disastrous ‘Our Voice, Our Hamilton’ campaign certainly learned a lot about high emotion, conflict and controversy within a few hours of its launch. On Monday, Day One of the $376,000 campaign, Dialogue Partners tweeted, “What is ‘ HSR ’?” Photo: tourismhamilton.com.

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How Twitter & Facebook are making social media ads more transparent

Sherrilynne Starkie

Hot the heels of having been compelled to answer questions from a Senate committee hearing on Russian interference in the US election, Twitter and Facebook have both introduced new ‘transparency’ policies, features and functions. Twitter too, has announced steps to increase the transparency of ads on its platform.

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Boosting Twitter ads reach

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter is taking promoted tweets to 500 million users, many of whom aren’t even logged into the social network, as part of a pilot program announced by Deepak Rao on the Twitter blog. Initially this test will support campaigns driving website clicks or conversions, or video views.

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How many Twitter users actually tweet?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In a startling admission by Twitter apparently, one in five users never actually tweet. Twitter has almost 284 million users however nearly 24 million of them never issue updates via the social networking platform, according to data filed by Twitter with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Twitter for companies.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. You may have heard rumours that Twitter is dead and nobody uses it anymore. But, Twitter is alive and well in Canada.

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A digital media framework for smart marketing communications

Sherrilynne Starkie

Balancing activities across owned, earned, shared and paid media strategies is the best way to get a demonstrable return on investment (ROI) for today’s marketing and communications campaigns. Twitter is alive and well in Canada. Forty-two per cent of us are on Twitter and half of those users are on it daily.

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What every consultant should know about social media analytics

Sherrilynne Starkie

That’s why they are great at relationships, writing and coming up with inventive campaign ideas. Native platform analytics including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Snap. It provides a competitive advantage and the agility to adjust campaigns and activities on the fly. It takes being logical, objective and analytical too.