Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Social Mention (or a paid social media listening package like Radian6 , if you have one) Go to www.socialmention.com and search for your company or product name (in quotes), and set the pull-down to “all.&# Worth a try?

Brands 143

Brands Content Social Media Consultant 143

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

Development , Social Media Who leads your organization’s social media initiatives? Adding “social media&# to that junior public affairs officer’s job description isn’t suddenly going to turn your organization into the next Zappo’s. Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Social Media Management Organization 139

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to print out all your key metrics on one piece of paper, for easy distribution and circulation within your organization? Unfortunately, Facebook keeps its data close to the vest for now, which is why Swix can't pull it out (and why companies like Radian6 can't monitor Facebook status updates from afar). Eventually, I hope.

Social Media 117

Social Media Strategy Statistics Metrics 117

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

John Bottom has crafted an amazing, creative, interactive B2B social media landscape image with links to a large group of key B2B bloggers like Mark Schaefer, Joe Pulizzi, Beth Harte and Tony Karrer. Organizing Your Social Media Strategy by CompuKol Connection. Influence in social media: how to find the top bloggers by blur Group.

Social Media 257

Social Media Trendrr SM2 Alterian 257

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. I’m not sure it’s broad vs targeted as the main difference, necessarily, as there are a lot of narrow B2C uses of social media (like invite-only brand communities and such).

Social Media 147

Social Media B2B Strategy Consultant 147

Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

Amber is Director of Community for Radian6 , co-proprietor of the influential Brass Tack Thinking blog (formerly Altitude Branding), a cool mom, a motivating force, and a hell of a flautist). How they organize and communicate internally. Who they hire. And how they manage crisis and measure success. is my vote.

Upcoming 124

Upcoming Project News Social Media 124

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So without further ado, here are the fearless females in blogging, organized alphabetically by first name (as a few in the list go by pen name or don’t publicize their last name). Adria is a organic technology consultant, business developer, technology trainer, and empowerment / tech conference addict. Adria Richards. Deborah Ng.

Blogger 168

Blogger SEO Consultant WordPress 168

Convince & Convert

JUNE 21, 2012

I think the thing that struck me as particularly worthwhile talking about today was the deal with Radian6 / Salesforce and Twitter to give them real time firehose access to the Twitter tweets API , which as far as I know Twitter has never done that, has never given an individual vendor access at that level. Jay’s Thought of the Week.

Radian6 118

Radian6 Social Media Company Statistics 118

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. I highly recommend you follow his stuff.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But, if you want to organize and harvest the tweets about your posts, this is the plug-in you want. 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.

Social Media 167

Social Media Strategy Consultant Tweetdeck 167

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

If you want to be a success in social media, then you definitely don’t want to be part of any of these groups. You need help from the power users in that community. A quick list of eight leading monitoring tools, from Alterian and Radian6 to UberVU and Sysomos. Where To Find Social Media Power Users by Search Engine Land.

Social Media 200

Social Media Tools Strategy Tips 200

Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. I rarely see organic share happening anymore on my feed; it's just a bunch of people tweeting, “Hey, I'm so there tonight. What’s Happening?

Social Media 124

Social Media Strategy Foursquare Social CRM 124

Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

CommerceTools uses cloud-based technology to help companies streamline the distribution of products, supplies, services and content to individuals or groups by simplifying and automating order and fulfillment processes. In fact, a combination of all these systems would certainly push your data-driven organization to another level.

Review 200

Review Tools Social Media Klout 200

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. If you can afford it, buy professional listening tools, like Radian6 or others in that category. Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Remember that community and marketplace are two different things.

Social Media 280

Social Media Brands Technorati RSS 280

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. Ultimately, are we growing as an organization? It’s advertising.

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Hashtag B2B Social Media Metrics 115