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Not your grandparents’ social: The ongoing evolution of social media

Dave Fleet

Social media has driven momentous change in the business world over a little more than a decade. However, as we look towards 2018, social media itself has changed drastically since its inception and it is a far cry from the relationship-focused utopia that many people imagined at the outset. Change can be good.

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Not your grandparents’ social: The ongoing evolution of social media

Dave Fleet

Social media has driven momentous change in the business world over a little more than a decade. However, as we look towards 2018, social media itself has changed drastically since its inception and it is a far cry from the relationship-focused utopia that many people imagined at the outset. Change can be good.

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Want to get better at social media? Ask “Why?”

Dave Fleet

Social media practitioners: want to get better at your job? Social media is still a shiny object to many people – companies still come at it with a focus on the shiny object rather than on what they really need. The conversation could go something like this: A: We need to be in social media.

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Four theories on the declining trust in Canadian social media

Dave Fleet

One of the interesting notes in this year’s Canadian Trust Barometer results was that trust in social media has fallen over the last year. In fact, social media was the only one of the five media types we examined to experience a decline in trust. Meanwhile, trust in social media fell by six per cent.

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Many people seemed to share the sentiment of my friend Jeremy Wright, who tweeted : FB has a fundamental responsibility to not disrupt their platform the week before Xmas. These two situations serve to reinforce a point I often make nowadays: Third-party social media tools have many advantages. However, you don’t own them.

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Facebook Commenting Platform: Pros and Cons For Businesses

Dave Fleet

Comments tied to one platform. Companies need to make sure they train their community managers to understand the mechanics behind the new plugin, how to minimize the risks of those mechanics and how to maximize the benefits.

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A Privacy-First Digital Marketing Landscape

Dave Fleet

Social media usage has surged while wide-reaching lockdowns have accelerated digital transformation for businesses over the last six months. Social media issues just scratch the surface. Social media is not homogenous – and it’s not going away.

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