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Social media
It’s pretty rare for business objectives to not have anything to do with socialness. I mean, influencing other humans seems to be a pretty big part of human interaction. These articles are about tools and techniques involving online social behavior influencing stuff.
The difference between social media and collaboration
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We’ve been reading and creating a lot of chatter about “social media” for the past few years. And for the past year it’s been incessant non-stop cacophony about Twitter and Facebook and gurus and is-blogging-relevant-anymore and Foursquare and so on. Non-stop.
In all that chatter it’s been easy to miss the point [...]
Posted in Orientation (Putting data in context) Also tagged Collaboration, Facebook, Social network, Twitter, Web analytics Leave a comment
Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your Wordpress site.
How do I install the Facebook Like button on Wordpress?
Posted in How To Also tagged Facebook, microformats, Open Graph, RDFa, Social network, Wordpress 4 Comments
Follow Friday: Sarah Faye Cohen
Librarians have been solving information-related problems since 300 B.C. Perhaps it's time to follow one.
Posted in Observation Also tagged Follow Friday, Librarian, Libraries, Library and Information Science, Sarah Faye Cohen Leave a comment
Gahlord Dewald speaking at BuzzRE Orange County
Gahlord Dewald heads to the OC for a few days.
Posted in News Also tagged Dale Chumbley, Dustin Luther, Linsey Planeta, Marketing, Orange County, Orange County California, presentation, Real estate Leave a comment
Organizational Readiness in Social Media: 4 Core Tasks
What four things result in 80% of an organization's success in social media?
Posted in Decision Also tagged Business, Jeremiah Owyang, Marketing, Measurement, Web analytics 2 Comments
Observing Satisfaction on Twitter
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For those of you who have reviewed my slide presentation on using web analytics with social media, you’ll notice that I have a minor addition to the usual Reach-Acquisition-Conversion consumer behavior model. That addition is Satisfaction. With social media, the customer’s ability to express satisfaction is significantly increased and also removed [...]
Follow Friday: Karthik S
Other countries have the same challenges in social media as we do in the US. Looking for insightful examples and case studies from another perspective? Here's someone you should follow.
Posted in Observation Also tagged Facebook, Follow Friday, India, Karthik S, LinkedIn, Twitter 3 Comments
Presenting at #RETSO: Getting started getting better: Using analytics for improving your social media
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I’ll be presenting on social media and analytics at RETechSouth this week in Atlanta, GA. My presentation will be about how you can use analytics to improve your use of social media. Who might like this presentation:
Anyone who wants to get started in social media but will have someone yammering [...]
Social Media Summit 2010 by HomeQuest: Gahlord Dewald to be featured speaker
Gahlord Dewald, president/janitor of Thoughtfaucet, will be a featured speaker at the HomeQuest Social Media Summit 2010. He’s very honored to be on a program with leading real estate tech/marketing/social luminaries such as Dustin Luther of Spinnio and 4Realz, Zillow’s Director of Community Relations David Gibbons and HomeQuest founder Garron Selliken. The HomeQuest Social Media [...]
Posted in News Also tagged David Gibbons, Dustin Luther, Garron Selliken, HomeQuest Social Media Summit 2010, Portland Oregon, Real estate, Search engine optimization, SEO, speaking, Zillow Leave a comment
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