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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers? How many customers does your company have? No doubt the numbers stack up in a heavy ratio against people inside the company that are trained to engage them. The third is a consumer goods company. How about potential customers?

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57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources

Dave Fleet

Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance. Social Media Guidelines.

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Social Media Does Not Exist

Adam Cohen

I had an interesting discussion recently about Social media strategies. When discussing inputs to a social media strategy, an admitted “social media skeptic&# replied that she thought there shouldn’t be a need for them; rather that social media strategies were really just customer relationship strategies.

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Social Media Success is About The Customers, Stupid

Adam Cohen

How do you define success with leveraging social media? With each passing conference and industry event, the perennial mainstays of social media case studies tend to remain the same: Dell, Comcast, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks. Social Media Success is NOT: …getting a celebrity to retweet a post.

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What “Saved by the Bell” Teaches us About Influence and Ambassadors

Waxing UnLyrical

A microcosm example of influencers vs ambassadors and the value each can provide to your reputation – or in this case, your client’s reputation. In a recent #pr20chat , we asked a question about the difference between influencers and ambassadors and one thing became very clear. Influencers are often one-hit wonders.

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PR and Social Media Measurement: A Bright Outlook

Waxing UnLyrical

Moving back to the industry’s desire to link business objectives to PR metrics brings us to social media evaluation. As the industry has started to embrace more credible and meaningful metrics, social media has presented many more challenges. Top image: Bain McLeod via Flickr, CC 2.0 ; AMEC graphic used with permission.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed.