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. Corporate Social Media ≠ Personal Social Media. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Time To Evolve How We Target Social Media?

Dave Fleet

As social networks become more and more prevalent, we’re at the point now that almost every client brief appears to point, on its surface, to one of a few key networks. What are the norms within the different social networks? “One in three of our target audience is using Facebook.

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

Dave Fleet

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. ReadWriteWeb: This is the Creepy, Super Cool Future of Smartphones & Social Networks. Interesting YouTube facts. Enough said.

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Trust (or Lack of it) and One-Way Social Media

Dave Fleet

The results show that one-way uses of social media actually marry two of the least-trusted sources of information – advertising and company sites (this is consistent with Forrester’s take on the strengths and weaknesses of different media ).

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50 Great Apps for Your iPad

Dave Fleet

Social Networking. HelloTxt – Lets you update multiple social networks from one app. IM+ Lite – Integrates with multiple IM and social network tools. Foursquare – iPhone app for the popular location-based social network. NPR – Another great news app. Great interface.

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Why Facebook’s Community Pages Could Give Brands Headaches

Dave Fleet

The social network launched roughly 6.5 The piece also noted that “community pages will indeed help make official brand pages more distinct from third-party pages and groups on the site.&#. Pay even closer attention to monitoring other social sites. million of these when they first launched.

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Sysomos Audience Moves Towards Measuring Social Media ROI

Dave Fleet

Audience tracks visitors to your site alongside their previous web activity, and helps to determine whether each person is a real lead or is just browsing. It does so by examining peoples’ previous web activity, including competitors’ websites, blogs, social networks and so on. Privacy Concerns?

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