Posts tagged with 'Social Media'
Chris Buckley is Director of Social Engagement at TMW, a full service agency based in London. Here he walks us through a typical day in agencyland.
If you like the sound of what Chris does then by all means explore the range of social media jobs that are listed on Econsultancy's digital jobs site.
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by Chris Lake
29 April 2013 10:54am
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At Econsultancy, we publish a huge amount of content related to digital marketing and ecommerce. One particular area that gets a lot of attention (and rightly so) is social media, which has had a profound impact on the way that consumers and businesses interact with each other.
To help you keep up to speed with what’s going on in the field, we’ve assembled some of our case studies, statistics, infographics, opinion and best practice blog content all in one place for you to digest at your leisure. You could even bookmark and share this page to add to your ninja toolset.
And if you’re going to be applying for one of the social media jobs advertised on our digital marketing jobs board, these posts will help you brush up and look smart.
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by Andrew Warren-Payne
26 April 2013 15:55pm
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Over the past couple of months first direct has conducted a research programme designed to identify different personality types through social media.
We questioned around 1,500 UK adults on their behaviours and attitudes towards social media. From the results we were able to identify 11 measurably different types of user.
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by Lisa Wood
15 April 2013 10:02am
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With social media authentication a common sight across the web, Google takes it one step further with their latest Google+ Sign-In.
With many questioning the worth of Google+ as a social media channel, there needed to be a change in their marketing model to give brands and publishers a reason to invest time into the platform. So, bright and early on the morning of February 26th, Google introduced Google+ Sign-In to the web community.
Now it is possible for users to sign into a website via Google and bring along their information from the Google+ social graph for an “upgraded experience”; something Facebook and Twitter have been doing for a long time.
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by Andrew Isidoro
22 March 2013 09:59am
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Since launching over ten years ago, LinkedIn has grown from a Silicon Valley phenomenon and niche social network for business to a content powerhouse that makes corporations drool for its demographic data and targeted advertising capabilities.
Fortunately for marketers, the growth of this social giant also means dedicated networks, segmented by industry, hosting expert blog posts, forums (in the form of LinkedIn Groups) and even a dedicated news stream that can drive millions of pageviews much like the early days of Digg and current Reddit army.
Here are three tips on how to engage with content and track effectively from my conversations with LinkedIn representatives.
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by Ryan Sommer
14 March 2013 14:28pm
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What are the challenges of integrating social media into your business?
In this post, I'll look at the obstacles that businesses encounter in fitting social media into their day-to-day activities without disrupting the workflow.
Today’s consumers expect their brands to be social. They want to engage in a two-way conversation with organisations on their own terms and they want the businesses they like to be a constituent in their own personal brand.
And in return, this conversation makes them closer, more trusting and more loyal to a business. As a result, many organisations have seen this opportunity and have developed Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn presences with different degrees of detail and success.
However, this move to social has caused almost as many challenges for businesses as it has opportunities.
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by Michael Veenswyk
13 March 2013 09:09am
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As Random Acts of Kindness week was earlier this month, it got me thinking: is this culture of kindness something that could cross over to how brands behave?
Are they already doing business by doing good? Social media makes it possible for brands to do ‘random’ nice things for customers (or fans or followers).
Is this self-serving? Or is it genuinely the start of something great?
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by Tamara Littleton
06 March 2013 10:18am
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In an attempt to deliver more tangible returns from their social media investments, brands are falling back on tried and tested methods of 'pushing the needle', most often using the familiar tools of advertising.
This partly stems from the misuse of 'proxy' measures in determining social ROI, such as followers, likes, shares and fans. None of these deliver value and are easily abused - with many marketers seeing them as just another contact list.
However, advertising and social media are like oil and water and should never be mixed, here's three reasons why.
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by Steve Davies
01 March 2013 10:23am
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The global edition of our Internet Statistics Compendium saw a bumper update this month, collecting some of the most interesting freely accessible data published about all things digital – including social media, mobile and ecommerce.
One area which I think is particularly deserving of our analytical curiosity is multichannel commerce, and PwC’s recent report on the subject is excellent reading at a time when shopping across offline and online internationally is still a relatively mysterious beast.
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by Luke Richards
26 February 2013 09:16am
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Earlier this month we published 2013’s Social Media Management Systems Buyer’s Guide, which saw 18 vendors of technology and services profiled, and the state of the industry discussed.
Before we put together our guides, we often seek the input of professionals from the vendors and elsewhere, to give us their views on current and future trends in their industries, and these quotes are included in the guides.
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by Amy Rodgers
22 February 2013 10:43am
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