digital marketing
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Yann Gourvennec05/07/2012Intuit: the social media manager who found his job with social media
Intuit is a company offering business financial solutions for small businesses. It has been awarded great distinctions including the great place to work award by Fortune. This presentation was delivered by Björn Ühss, global social media manager at Intuit. It was about the changing landscape and mindset of Social Media:
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SAP: convincing the CFO that B2B social media can be a benefit
Last week I had the chance to bump into Sarah Goodall from SAP; I was very pleased to see her at the usefulsocialmedia conference in London one year after being acquainted with her at a marketing conference in London. Sarah is one of our best social media practitioners in the…
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Social media war: Twitter bans sharing on LinkedIn profiles
Below is an email I received this very morning. Twitter has just changed its strategy – according to the issuer – and LinkedIn, as a result, will no longer be able to relay your tweets automatically. This is a new battle between the warring factions of social media platforms and…
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Yann Gourvennec27/06/2012UK payment fraud: NFA says the devil is in your details!
Stephen Harrison (photo), Chief Executive , Nation Fraud Authority (NFA) delivered a presentation on June 28 regarding the importance of fraud in advanced payment methods in the UK at the marketforce future of cards & payments conference: the National Fraud Authority was set up by a response to fraud by…
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Yann Gourvennec27/06/2012Useful Social Media: What social media tool for what message?
I didn't do any more reporting from the usefulsocialmedia conference yesterday as I was involved in the moderation of a number of panel sessions and I had my presentation in the evening. Talking of which, here it is, all available on slideshare.net/orange, under a creative commons licence. In that presentation,…
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Yann Gourvennec25/06/2012How Manchester City is using social media to stir passion
Richard Ayers (a former BBC journalist) has worked for Manchester City and BFI (British Film Industry) recently and he has shared his experience running social media for both of these organisations at the usefulsocialmedia conference today. BFI has been around for 100 years and is behind each and every film.…
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Yann Gourvennec25/06/2012A few takeaways from the UK JustEat takeaway online service
Tess Tucker is head of digital marketing for JustEat. JustEat is an aggregator of local takeaways. Just go to justeat.co.uk. The company is originally from Denmark (founded in 2001) and has just over 12,000 (1/3 of the total) restaurants in the UK. A few takeaways from JustEat takeaway online service…
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SAS doesn’t need to buy followers, it knows how to attract customers
The second usefulsocialmedia presentation this afternoon was presented by Christian Kamhaug from Scandinavian airline SAS. Scandinavians are known for flying a lot for business. And Scandinavians have 5 weeks holidays so they fly a lot for leisure too; also because Summers are wet and cold in Scandinavia and they want…
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Yann Gourvennec25/06/2012Nissan: lessons learnt from the Web in India
The first afternoon session at the usefulsocialmedia conference Nissan - David Parkinson, General Manager of Social & Digital engagement for EMEA & India (@dave_nissan). Dave introduced his pitch by saying he is not an “expert” that we all learn from our mistakes … I have made that statement very often…
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KLM shows how to pilot social media for one’s clients’ benefit
KLM’s Anna Ketting showed us how to pilot social media for one’s clients’ benefit. She was presenting for KLM today at the usefulsocialmedia conference. Her presentation was definitely aimed at better using social media for customer interaction. KLM has a small home country and market. 70% of its traffic to KLM.com…
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Yann Gourvennec25/06/2012Social media is like pinball wizardry Heineken social head says
This was the second panel at the useful social media conference and it was devoted to customer interaction. This is the report for part 1 in the panel with Lennart Boorsma who works for Heineken (Global Brand Team). The moderator was Mike McGrail from the SocialPenguinBlog
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Yann Gourvennec25/06/2012social media governance: that necessary evil …
On June 25, I attended the Usefulsocialmedia conference in London, at the Marriott Regents Park. The first panel was dedicated to social media governance. “Everybody now has a printing press” , so that this creates huge issues in terms of Governance; anyone can publish anything, and to what degree should…
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