Dave Fleet

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Richard correctly argues that companies can learn from this and, by adopting similar approaches, can derive similar benefits from reaching their stakeholders directly through digital channels. This got me thinking on some other lessons and reminders we can take from this election. Implications for business: Get outside of your own bubble.

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Search Engines Are A Conduit, Not A Source

Dave Fleet

Search engines usually drive a significant proportion – if not the majority – of traffic to companies’ websites. Think about it – when you look for information on something, you go to Google (or Bing, or Ask.com, or whoever…) and type in your query. And yes, some companies aren’t paying attention.

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Monday Morning Reads: Churnalism, Bubble Bursting, Influence Limits

Dave Fleet

to avoiding getting caught when the social media “bubble&# bursts, to reputation management, influence and lastly a couple of Google stories to round things out. Thanks to this, when a reputation issue hit, the company was able to communicate directly with its fans (alongside smart SEM) and manage the problem. Back up your life.

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Privacy Is About Control, Not Anonymity

Dave Fleet

You don’t want the credit card company to track where you’re staying and whether you’re buying flowers for someone you’re not even married to–and then send you a free coupon for STD testing…&#. I don’t care if my credit card company, Amazon, Google or Facebook have my information.

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Is “Social Media” Hurting Social Media?

Dave Fleet

Plenty of people have wondered about the term before ( Google “social media term&# and you’ll find a 2007 post from Jeremiah Owyang on the topic) but I’m thinking of this from a slightly different angle. How many companies have you encountered taking a scorched earth approach to their social media activities?

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Digging-in to the new Radian6 Dashboard Improvements

Dave Fleet

Google Analytics integration. Google Analytics – adding Google Analytics to the suite of integrations that Radian6 enables. Given the number of sites that use Google Analytics, this could be helpful for many companies. Refresh button. Keyword proximity searches. Enhanced query support. Quick search function.

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Compete Responds To Criticism

Dave Fleet

My primary concern was that, after seeing nearly a 90% variance between their numbers and those from Google Analytics on my own site, I couldn’t trust that their numbers for other sites would be correct. when comparing the traffic numbers for local analytics (google, omniture, etc) to the numbers on Compete.com.

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