social media
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social media & social networks
Horowitz recognises Google plus is late to market but announces growth
Where is Google plus at nowadays. Barely a year after its launch in Summer 2011, Bradley Horowitz, President product management at Google gave us an overview of where they are at and where they are heading … and evaded a few questions too ! Horowitz recognises Google plus is late…
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social media & social networks
Verizon: using crowdsourcing to get products right – or wrong
A few weeks ago in San Francisco, I attended the fiftieth Blogwell presentation since the beginning. Laurie Shook is portfolio leader at Verizon, a leading US telecom operator. She is a product marketer who uses social media, not a social media expert and she even describes herself as a “marketeer…
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social media will be part of everything businesses will do
Is social media a gimmick or not when it comes to businesses? On May 16, I delivered a keynote at the Ronewmedia conference in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Ronewmedia will actually change names, in order to become ICEEFEST, that is to say, the Interactive Central and Eastern European…
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Marketing & Innovation
10 Major Trends In Corporate Social Media Management
8 years after its introduction – and a few name changes – Corporate Social Media can no longer be considered as an innovation. We have clearly hit the third wave of its implementation in Corporate environments, that is to say the structuring of collaborative web initiatives in order to scale…
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Marketing & Innovation
Hitachi Data Systems: making social media work for B2B
Sharon Crost is Global Online Marketing and B2B Social Media Manager at Hitachi Data Systems and she delivered what I believe is one of the most inspiring presentations on March 27 at Blogwell in San Francisco. B2B, it didn’t come as as surprise to me ( I made a presentation…
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social media & social networks
Yahoo! movies Summer program: from 200,000 to 1.2 million likes
This Yahoo! presentation kicked off my fifth Blogwell session (overall, this was the nineteenth session) since the end of 2008, time flies! This meeting took place in San Francisco in the beautiful Golden Gate Club venue in the Presidio park, a stone’s throw from the Golden Gate bridge. Not only…
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social media & social networks
Evidence on engagement rates on facebook shows little interaction
Just before I post a 2 part piece on Byron Sharp's "brand that grow" marketing opus, here is a link he added on his blog to a facebook "fan" survey which shows that engagement rates are extrelmely small; a conclusion I've already made a number of times, underlying the "cyberbabble"…
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The end of social media … as we knew it (Pre Commerce contribution)
Today's selection is ... My 2 cents on the future of Social Media for enterprises after 5 years of field practice as Director of Digital Media at Orange Business Services and - more recently - the Orange group. All of this courtesy of Bob Pearson on the Pre Commerce blog.…
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digital marketing
42 tweetable marketing truths you should know about
Pamela Vaughan's highly enjoyable "truth vs. myth" tweettable piece on Marketing at Hubspot. Enjoyable for sure, but you should take these numbers with a pinch of salt. Much as I believe in the power of social media, my field experience has shown that Facebook is not a catch-all tool for…
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b2b marketing & sales
LinkedIn is adding 2 new users every second says LinkedIn Head
LinkedIn is aiming at keeping its users happy. In terms of Social Media, Facebook springs to mind with its 850 million users and growing every day. Yet, there is another social media behemoth which launched in 2003 and has only – even though only in this case is very relative –…
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5 Top tips for organising social media teams in large organisations
This is the session synopsis of my keynote presentation at Figaro Digital in London on November 23, 2011. I only used a few slides which I will provide later on. In this presentation I gave my tips for organising social media teams in large organisations, based on my current experience…
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digital marketing
iStrategy Amsterdam: measuring ROI/ROE in Social Media initiatives
Measuring ROI/ROE in Social Media initiatives isn’t easy. As announced in a previous post, I was keynoting at the iStrategy conference in Amsterdam on Oct. 26. On top of the short video clip which I have recorded with my team in order to introduce the keynote, I have also prepared a fully-fledged slidecast…
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