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Five way to improve your social media measurement

Dave Fleet

We’re past the point where a “get me one of those” approach to the latest social shiny object is a viable approach. As business use of social media continues to slowly mature, measurement is becoming more and more important to justify the investment in social activities. Or the sentiment of coverage?

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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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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

In essence, Richard argues that while Hillary Clinton took a top-down, hierarchical approach to communication (via the mainstream media), Trump’s use of social media enabled him to go direct to his base and to communicate without the filter of the media. Corporate Social Media ≠ Personal Social Media.

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5 Steps to Thinking More Socially About Communications

Dave Fleet

Your new social hub, or your Facebook Page, or your engagement plan may be the nice, glamorous part of your approach to social media, but be careful not to completely neglect incoming information in favour of outbound messages. That approach is ineffective in social media. Think long-term, not short-term.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

In essence, Richard argues that while Hillary Clinton took a top-down, hierarchical approach to communication (via the mainstream media), Trump’s use of social media enabled him to go direct to his base and to communicate without the filter of the media. Corporate Social Media ? Personal Social Media.

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Digital Communications Conversations Continue To Evolve

Dave Fleet

Tweet The maturation of the conversation about social media-driven PR continues. 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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Return On Influence Can Return From Whence It Came

Dave Fleet

The Harvard Business Review recently published a post entitled “ Return on Influence, the New ROI “ In it, the author suggested that marketers consider the use of “Return on Influence” as a metric for measuring social media activity. What is this metric, you ask? Which leads me to the next point… 3.