Akamai Marketing

article thumbnail

Twitter-ups the future of events, sponsorship and event marketing

Akamai Marketing

Prediction: tomorrow’s event, event marketing and sponsorship opportunity is with “Tweet-ups” where like-minded Twitter-peeps meet up to meet each other in person. Here’s the great thing: by their very nature, Twitter-peeps share something in common, making it a very powerful marketing tool. Everyone is doing it. Ah, events.

Eventful 116
article thumbnail

Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

Akamai Marketing

For tracking and ease, the event and its communication was primarily executed through Twitter using hashtag #DaBusHNL. Apps Case Study Event Marketing Influencers Marketing start-ups Twitter case study event marketing marketing measurement social media strategy' Media Coverage: .

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Socially Speaking What do YOU expect from brands and companies using social media?

Akamai Marketing

Also, on Twitter, I’m going to use the hashtag #sociallyspeaking to discuss this. Feel free to use that hashtag with your 140 character opinions too! What brand/company do you personally follow that you think “get’s it.&# Besides Zappos. =). I realize this is a purely qualitative project, but that’s OK.

Company 161
article thumbnail

Why Transparency Matters

Akamai Marketing

” A hashtag (#McDStories) is highjacked and the result is a spiraling PR nightmare. I would argue that this isn’t a “truly” social campaign since the impetus was actual paid tweets with a designated hashtag, but we’ll leave that for another discussion.

article thumbnail

The Case for Active Users as Social Media Community Managers

Akamai Marketing

They can do things like pause auto-tweets, incorporate relevant hashtags as needed all without being told. I see things through the eyes of a user, not just a marketer, trainer or speaker. And requiring someone to make social media part of their job simply because they are in PR or marketing or sales isn’t reason enough.

article thumbnail

5 metrics to track on Twitter

Akamai Marketing

According to Twitalyzer ) You can also use a tool like TweetReach to monitor a particular #hashtag, URL, phrase or user name. The paid version is well worth it for particular campaigns.

Metrics 229
article thumbnail

Social Media During Emergencies

Akamai Marketing

So now that social media is officially part of emergencies, some thoughts and suggestions about social media use during large scale emergencies: Hashtag coordination : local, state, federal agencies should coordinate around a single hashtag and alert news outlets to the hashtag.