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Facebook Updates in Lieu of F8 2020

Ignite Social Media

Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, was supposed to be held next week but was canceled several months ago due to COVID-19. In place of Facebook’s biggest annual event, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders will be doing a series of updates throughout the year. Source: Facebook. Live Video.

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A social media focus group in the 99-year old home of the Red Sox

Jeff Esposito

So when I got an invitation from the Boston Red Sox to visit their home offices for a Twitter focus group, I could not have said yes quickly enough. On July 28, I arrived at the discreet offices near Yawkey Way and was shuttled into a conference room with 10 other members of the Sox Twitter community.

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10 Reasons Market Research is Critical to Social Media

Adam Cohen

Tried and True Methods to Solicit Customer Feedback Industries are changing rapidly, and the need to conduct focus groups, surveys and gather feedback is too. Wouldn’t you want to leverage that insight to avoid a misdirection in using social media? It is solely my opinion.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. Gone are the days of conducting expensive surveys and focus groups to find out what your prospects are thinking.

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Social Media Research: Interview with Joel Rubinson of ARF - Part 2

Diva Marketing Blog

Also, let me say that focus groups have their own problems when a strong personality becomes the group leader, which often happens. At the end of March, at the ARF annual “ReThink conference 2009” the journey continues with the most amazing learning event ever in our industry. This was really explosive.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Upcoming Events. Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. Lots of diverse versions of this. Categories. Select Category.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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