Convince & Convert

MARCH 28, 2012

Over the last several years we’ve gamified checking in ( Foursquare ), eating and drinking ( Foodspotting ), investing in human beings ( Empire Avenue ), and many other categories. According to a report focusing on online casual and social games from market research firm Newzoo , 126 million Americans, or 87% of the 145 million U.S.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 28, 2012

Over the last several years we’ve gamified checking in ( Foursquare ), eating and drinking ( Foodspotting ), investing in human beings ( Empire Avenue ), and many other categories. According to a report focusing on online casual and social games from market research firm Newzoo , 126 million Americans, or 87% of the 145 million U.S.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 13, 2010

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. There are some plug-and-play virtual item platforms now. One, should we monetize other people’s activity?

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 25, 2011

It just shows you how much app and platform development continues in the sphere of online social networks and mobile options. How often should you get reports? Do you have a community on the ground to support an online community? Or would you be better served to set up a community inside another social network?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. It’s important to claim your brand name across all the major social media platforms. if yes, please explain.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

So let’s take a look at some of social media’s biggest platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter) and discuss where they’re heading and what trends to look out for in 2017. The standardization of platforms. 2016 has been a period of consolidation for many of the biggest social media platforms out there.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

It depends, but early social media platforms started to pop up in the late 90s to early 2000s, with the technology budding as early as the 70s. TechCrunch reported twttr’s first users were sending breaking life updates like: “Cleaning my apartment” and “Hungry.” (My, So, how old is social media? My, how times have(n’t) changed!)

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Dave Fleet

APRIL 4, 2018

I remember writing a report in university on the potential for an early eCommerce retailer to better optimize their journey planning to anticipate customers’ purchasing behavior based on their past activities, and serve products to them accordingly. Foursquare didn’t exist yet. That became my passion. Twitter was new.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

Amongst the topics that came up was some common sense insight into the usage of geo-based social media sites like Britekite and Foursquare. Probably the best thing I heard about social media strategy is that social media can be more valuable as a listening tool than a speaking platform. Social Media Strategy. Social Media Tools.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. I felt compelled to put something together that I could use as a platform for my thoughts on a local level and I have a lot of opinions. It’s completely focused on the city and community.

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Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Two days ago, Facebook announced how they are going to use Facebook as a platform for communication between users and franchises. This is great advertising for consumer communities on Facebook. I was obviously wrong, many people do), but I still feel the same way about Foursquare as I did back then.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Now your Google+, your Foursquare. Eventually, enough will be enough, but they seem to try and find other reasons for us to participate on that particular platform. Now with f-Commerce and other things that perhaps you used to have to leave Facebook to do, now they want you to do within their platform. That fosters community.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? Why invite Bloggers to a News.com Press briefing?

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Besides social media platforms as Facebook, geo-localising applications are popular amongst smartphone users who check into locations or tag the location onto a photo. I recently stumbled upon this report , which was released by the social marketing platform MomentFeed , back in November 2011.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Influential voices like Olivier Blanchard and Jacquie McCarnan present formulas and methods for ROI calculation, while Steve Goldman contends that social media ROI can’t be measured in isolation, and Jackie Cohen reports that more than a third of CMOs still have no idea whether or not social media marketing is producing any ROI.

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Social Media Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2010

We saw a forced version of this last year with Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice , but the proliferation of "friends" on various platforms will have people rethinking the true reason they're involved in these places to begin with. Related: see Matt Singley's post on Why Foursquare is the next Social Network. Social media is no different.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. Place making social media (Foursquare, Gowalla, et al) will continue to gain traction over the next 18 months. SuzanneVara [link] Suzanne Vara Jay Spot on as always. That's all. Just compliments.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 11, 2012

The ability to wear and master a plethora of hats is understood by many to be the hallmark of a great community manager. Like many community managers I’ve worn many hats in my own career, including that of (part-time) professional photographer. Facebook has made a lot of improvements to its photo-hosting platform.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. Because Foursquare makes very little sense unless you’re in a physical location like a store, restaurant, etc. At least it is for me.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 28, 2012

Find the answers to those questions and many more here in almost three dozen of the best social media tips, how-to guides, lists and reports of 2012 so far. ’ Be yourself on social media platforms and reveal your true essence…Show who you are with your avatar and profiles. How do we demonstrate the ROI of social efforts?

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Image credit: Business 2 Community. Business 2 Community ). Not as believable.) ( Business 2 Community ). ” Yet only 39% report using customer data and behavior patterns to shape marketing strategy in the past year. At the other end of the spectrum, less than 10% use Foursquare, podcasting, or Quora.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2012

What I want to talk about, in terms of my issue of the week is the report from our friend Jeff Widman last week about the diminishment in people using Facebook tabs. I’ll tell you, if you could do social sign-in either on your site, or somehow getting social credentials on platform at Facebook, that’s the big opportunity.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her blog, Kommein , covers blogging, business, community management, social media, and more. Her latest posts include Are You Archiving Social Media , Questions About Social Media Monitoring & Measurement Platforms , and How Private Are You. Deborah Ng. Her blog, PR 2.0 Follow her @dbreakenridge on Twitter. Denise Wakeman.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

The newsletter, which was sent within the first week of the month, would include new research findings from surveys conducted by research groups such as the Pew Research Center, new discoveries from a marketing firm’s eye tracking study, or data that was recently culled across a multitude of SEO agency case study reports.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Further, there have been some reports of issues with accuracy in the geo-location feature) Twitter lists, while useful for categorizing people to follow, haven’t really taken off either. In true Twitter fashion, it wasn’t “rolled out” per se, it just appeared as part of the API that third parties access. What’s Happening?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 21, 2012

It seems like a risky move when there’s so many other platforms out there. Jay : Yeah, and even insofar as Salesforce is developing a robust social marketing platform, there are other people trying to create similar platforms. You can get the entire report sent to you for free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs. In fact, the screenshot above with all the spam shows that that Foursquare status update was nowhere to be found.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

See my post on How to Create a Share of Voice Report for a free worksheet that uses SocialMention. Radian6 For advanced social media listening, I often recommend my friends at Radian6 , who have – in my opinion – the most robust feature set and product development roadmap of all the widely available social listening platforms.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 27, 2016

In today’s report I look at how you can capitalise on a trend which could see you at the helm of the webs hottest startups. It’s really weird to read a detailed report on something just as I was about to talk about it. Vamo, an event discover platform that allowed you to book accommodation in multiple cities.

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Visually SM

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Hootsuite takes it a step further and allows you to manage multiple social content streams from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare and many more networks. Pricing: Free – Up to 3 social profiles + basic reports and scheduling. Also includes additional reporting and integration features. Pricing: Free. Crowdbooster.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

If you do so on Facebook, your account will likely be terminated especially if Facebook receives reports of misrepresentation. Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point. There you have it: personal profiles versus Fan Pages versus Community Pages versus Facebook Groups.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

Social media and community management and listening and social business and enabling your employees to be spokespeople and all the things we talked about here at Social Pros , and all the things we talked about in the Now Revolution , that’s not advertising. They don’t want to just read a report that I put out. Absolutely.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Location, Location, Location The biggest story of the event was the widespread usage of presence services foursquare and Gowalla. Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better If registration climbs again, SXSW organizers will have a real dilemma.

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