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How Government Agencies Can Keep Their Communities Engaged in Creative Ways [VIDEO]

Social Media Strategies Summit

Led by Emily Allen Lucht , the Director of Communications for the State of Maryland, this panel answered some of the most common questions we hear from social media marketers in government. For example, although Vacchi Hill’s agency doesn’t deal with tourism, following tourism agencies online provides a great source of inspiration.

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6 Powerful Social Media Lessons from Tourism that will Boost Your Brand

Socially Sorted

We can learn a lot from the Tourism Industry when it comes to Social Media Smarts. . In this post I share 6 Powerful Social Media Lessons from Tourism that work… that you can implement in your business to boost your brand too! . Let’s just say I have had a lot of social media lessons from tourism. I think of Sean.

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Why Social Media Marketing Isn’t Synonymous with Community-Driven Marketing

Pixlee

Social media marketing is a powerhouse for brands, but to be successful it takes more than just sharing ads and branded content across social platforms. Brands need to take their marketing a step further by focusing on who matters most: their customers. But what is community-driven marketing and how can brands use it successfully?

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

Firebelly

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. Yes, pictures and videos are nice and useful and all, but a story can live without them. Besides, Google can’t see pictures, and they’re still working on pulling the words from videos. I like this kind of content best, because it tells the entire story.

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Social Media Contest: Send Your Facebook Profile On A Cape Town Holiday

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism launched a new Facebook travel app this week, designed to allow “virtual visits” to the city through a user’s Facebook profile. According to Cape Town Tourism, the social networking giant sees more than 300 million photos uploaded every day, many of them travel photos.

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How Government Agencies Can Consistently Create Great Content

Social Media Strategies Summit

One of the most challenging aspects of social media marketing is consistently creating high-quality, engaging content over an extended period. This is backed up by data, with research from Visual Objects ranking consistent content creation as one of the top five social media challenges for marketers. Image source.

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Chatbots: The future of conversational commerce and marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It’s no secret that the rise of computer apps is transforming both the marketing and customer experience. Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Christian Brucculeri, the CEO at mobile messaging company Snaps, a developer of chatbots and other marketing technology products for companies. Creating conversations, not messaging. “We