Social Media Strategery

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Create Better Content by First Creating a Better Relationship with Your Lawyers

Social Media Strategery

And so on we go, back to our desks to create content that will get approved. How did lawyers gain so much control over what we do and the content we create? You see, their job isn’t to create engaging content. No lawyer has ever been fired for saying “no” to a Facebook post. How did we let things get to this point?

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

Social Media Strategery

There are always those early adopters (think Twitter users in 2007 , Facebook users in 2004 ), but generally large-scale adoption of new communications tools takes years, often decades (think radio and television) – until now. There are two parts to this: first, the content must be provided in an interesting manner. User first!

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. Sure, there aren’t usually any hard costs required to set up social media accounts, but someone is still had to create the content, engage in the conversation, monitor and manage those conversations, etc.

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

Social Media Strategery

No one talked about social “content.” Other things happened: Conversations gave way to content. Mozilla and Sonos pulled Facebook ads after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The only thing early adopters of social media had in common was the desire to create change. The organizational hierarchy flattened dramatically.

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U.S. Navy Virtual Scavenger Hunt Charts Fan Interest

Social Media Strategery

Is your Facebook Insights Dashboard filled with peaks and valleys? The Navy found this out last month when they launched the first Navy Virtual Scavenger Hunt to help increase engagement among their Facebook fans and teach them about Maritime strategy at the same time. Do the same people do all of the commenting and liking?

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

Social Media Strategery

Today we have Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Managers, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) analysts, Digital Analysts, Community Managers, Content Marketing Specialists, and way too many social media ninjas, gurus, and rockstars. It means integrating social ads, sponsored content, and syndicated content into strategies from the very beginning.

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The Social Media Resolutions I Want You to Make

Social Media Strategery

Let me guess – in 2011, you resolve to “blog more often,&# “double the number of Twitter followers you have,&# “stop spending so much time on Facebook,&# and “engage more with your customers/readers?&# Two years ago, I even did one of these posts myself. So why do I have such an aversion to these posts now?