Dave Fleet

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25 Suggestions For How To Use Twitter

Dave Fleet

Twitter sent an email around to users yesterday, giving four suggestions for getting the most out of Twitter in 2011: Follow your interests: Follow the people who share your passions. Return to Twitter: A call for lapsed users to return to a service that apparently now has over 200 million user accounts. See who else is around.

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Facebook Strategies: Content Over Creative

Dave Fleet

Success on Facebook depends on companies providing interesting, valuable content that engages people through their home base on Facebook. Well, to be more specific, it doesn’t make things easy for brands who provide mediocre content. You see, Facebook doesn’t treat all content equally. Shift your budget.

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Three Ways To Wag The Long Tail Of Content

Dave Fleet

Useful content. It (I hope) is useful stuff; content that people find applicable and helpful. Evergreen content. As someone pointed out to me on Twitter, Google “good communications plan” and this post is the top result. I got to wondering why this is happening. Here are my ideas: 1. Optimize for search.

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SXSW 2011: Strong on Networking; Less on Content

Dave Fleet

Content varies in quality. Twitter got its big break-through at SXSW in 2007. This year it felt too big, with sessions spread throughout the city which provided a disincentive to attend. While SXSW, to me, is primarily about the people, the panels do still provide the main reason that people attend most conferences.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. One piece of Richard’s analysis got me thinking: his statement that “Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times.” Implications for business: Pay attention to the content you produce that performs well, and learn from it. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Six essential shifts in social media strategy

Dave Fleet

Gone are the days when the GMOOT (Get Me One Of Those) approach will get you anywhere – simply having a Twitter account, or a Facebook Page, isn’t enough. Planning and executing content more strategically. Considering content objectives. Identifying appropriate content sources.

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Four theories on the declining trust in Canadian social media

Dave Fleet

While the personalized 1:1 experience is there, the ability to stay in touch with communities of interest is much diminished, and there’s a saturation of brands pushing content “at” people, with a focus on sales vs helpful, interesting information. The gradual decline of Twitter. Movement from broadcasting to 1:1 communication.