Dave Fleet

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

If you’re not familiar with the phenomenon, the top social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – all allow users to ‘follow’ other people whose content then provides the basis for what they see when they log in to those services. Here are a few thoughts from my perspective. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

If you’re not familiar with the phenomenon, the top social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – all allow users to ‘follow’ other people whose content then provides the basis for what they see when they log in to those services. Here are a few thoughts from my perspective. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Monday Morning Reads: Mobile Apps; LoTR Revisited; Funky SEO

Dave Fleet

Fast Company: Google Gives More Prominence to Social Search. Google has bumped-up the prominence of social results in its search results, making the convergence of social and search strategy all the more important. Social rising in search. Augmented reality and social collide. QR ideas for business.

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Reflections on the changing digital agency environment

Dave Fleet

As I’ve done so, I’ve highlighted five key landscape shifts that are changing the way that agencies and teams like ours need to operate: Newly (re-)accelerated change in social networks. Less “social”, more “media”. Newly (re-)accelerated change in social networks. Decline of community management (in some areas).

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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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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

At first glance it seems similar to Google Analytics in nature – in fact, I previously under the incorrect impression it simply connected social media traffic to web analytics. It does so by examining peoples’ previous web activity, including competitors’ websites, blogs, social networks and so on.

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Digital is facing a Trust Crisis

Dave Fleet

The Trust Barometer focuses on broader societal issues, but this year’s data touches on something I’ve been speaking about with our clients for several years now: There is an ongoing dearth of trust in the digital marketing field, and especially – but not only – in the social media space. This year is no different.

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