Dave Fleet

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5 Steps to Thinking More Socially About Communications

Dave Fleet

However, when you’re dealing in earned media over which you have zero control of words, sentiment, audience or placement, not every eyeball is equal. Quality measures like sentiment, message and link inclusion and conversions for other goals become important. The CPM metric would say yes. So, not every eyeball is even a good thing.

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Five way to improve your social media measurement

Dave Fleet

Or the sentiment of coverage? I’ve seen way too many reports that lay out the objectives of a program, then report on measurements that have nothing to do with those objectives. If you’re looking to get ten thousand sign-ups to a new service, why would you report on the number of retweets of your content?

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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. I don’t blame him – companies are sinking big money into Facebook nowadays.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Sentiment and conversation trends matter. Implications for business: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the shift towards one-way communication in social channels means that people aren’t talking to each other – or talking back. Pay attention. Analytics Drives News.

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Digital Communications Conversations Continue To Evolve

Dave Fleet

As Chris Brogan put in a well-timed post on social media metrics today, “The social media metric that I think does matter and that is difficult to fully qualify is sentiment : the positive or negative mentions of a brand, product, service, whatever.&#

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Why Share of Voice is a Useless PR Metric

Dave Fleet

And if SOV alone can’t guide a decision the way sentiment, or quality of coverage, or even volume of coverage can … then is it a metric we want to be using prominently? So that brings me back to the question, what information does share of voice provide that guides an action? What action can you take based on a SOV metric alone?

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Sentiment and conversation trends matter. Implications for business: Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the shift towards one-way communication in social channels means that people aren’t talking to each other – or talking back. Pay attention. Analytics Drives News.

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