ThinkUp Helps the Social Network User See the Online Self. Photo Anil Dash, a longtime tech entrepreneur and blogger, was recently studying a list of the top words he had used on Twitter over the course of a month during the fall.
Mr. Dash has half a million followers on , and like a lot of people in tech and media circles, he uses the social network to chat with colleagues, to pontificate about technology, politics and pop culture, and to participate in a lot of in-jokes. Over the years Mr. Dash has also found himself in the middle of some of the most loaded controversies that have roiled that network. “A lot of it was me dealing with ‘gamergate’ folks,” he said in an interview, referring to this year’s antifeminist activist campaign by some video game enthusiasts. Mr. Some of this may sound trivial. Every morning the service delivers an email packed with information, and in its weighty thoroughness, it reminds you that what you do on Twitter and can change your life, and other people’s lives, in important, sometimes unforeseen ways. Mr. Worldometers - real time world statistics. Infographic: Social Business Driving Positive Outcomes. Social Media Publishing is dead (as we know it)
Earlier this month, Facebook dropped a bombshell by not only acknowledging that Facebook pages’ organic reach was declining but also by telling us we shouldn’t expect them to recover.
Facebook’s VP of Product for Facebook Ads, Brian Boland, went on to explain that this is the new world we live in now, that the same thing happened with search engines before and that we’d better get used to it. It’s true that many platforms go through a similar cycle: first, they present a great free opportunity, then more and more people grab it – decreasing the return for everyone until finally, the platform focuses on those ready to pay for play. It happened with Google Search; it happened with Apps (yes, Apple doesn’t sell ads but others do – such as coincidentally… Facebook). Social media in numbers (March 2014) 244 Flares Twitter 75 Facebook 31 Google+ 48 LinkedIn 54 inShare54 Pin It Share 18 Buffer 18 244 Flares × Looking for some social media stats to use for your strategy or in your next presentation?
You will find what you need in the list below. Facebook. 14 Social Media Trends for 2014. With more and more brands hopping on the social media bandwagon in 2013, there are bound to be some shifts in the way we use it for business.
We’re seeing hashtags show up in print advertising and television commercials, and short-form videos like Vine and Instagram Videos becoming more mainstream. You might say social media is here to stay. So it’s fair to ask what you can expect in the coming year in social media marketing. To answer that question, I’ve scoured some of the best lists on the web and gathered some of the top social media trends for 2014 for you. The strength of ‘weak signals’ As information thunders through the digital economy, it’s easy to miss valuable “weak signals” often hidden amid the noise.
Arising primarily from social media, they represent snippets—not streams—of information and can help companies to figure out what customers want and to spot looming industry and market disruptions before competitors do. Sometimes, companies notice them during data-analytics number-crunching exercises. Or employees who apply methods more akin to art than to science might spot them and then do some further number crunching to test anomalies they’re seeing or hypotheses the signals suggest. In any case, companies are just beginning to recognize and capture their value. Here are a few principles that companies can follow to grasp and harness the power of weak signals. Digital Activism & the 4Cs Social Media Framework. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology.
I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons. The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ‘social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. 50 Websites Like Qik. 10 Guidelines For Choosing An Enterprise Social Network. The growth of an enterprise social network at BASF. By Cordelia Krooß An industrial company with approximately 110,000 employees and an almost 150-year history hardly sounds like a social media pioneer – yet many BASF characteristics are a strong fit for Web 2.0.
These include employees who embrace innovative technologies to the existence of large Verbund sites whose individual production plants are interlinked through a complex network. BASF started work on a corporate online business platform as early as 2008. Five years later, over 35,000 employees are using connect.BASF to build up their internal network, share knowledge and collaborate more efficiently across units. For an online business network to create true value for an organization, there are multiple steps that need to be taken. Forming the best team. Ford Social Media Guidelines. Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines. Managing staff who participate in social networks.
This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts with negativity and general unpleasant comments. To be even heard, I started to IP and MAC address ban anyone who posted under secondary IDs for the purpose of trolling (making up a temporary persona who’s only purpose is to create negative comments).
I shouldn’t have been surprised – victim number one was the entire Customer Service department. Ford Social Media Guidelines. 5 Great Corporate Social Media Policy Examples. 57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources. Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance.
But where to start? 10 Guidelines For Choosing An Enterprise Social Network. The growth of an enterprise social network at BASF. 5 Great Corporate Social Media Policy Examples. Blogging / Social Internet Policy. A variation of this post was originally published on my old blog: KM Space.
When employees create their own blogs, comment on a blog, create a LinkedIn profile, use Facebook and/or contribute to or through any of the other online media (i.e., Wikis, blogs, chat rooms, Internet forums, electronic mailing lists, etc.) they are impacting their personal image and potentially affecting the company. If your profile online indicates that you work at the company, then that activity is associated with the company. [For law firms: When it comes to expressing opinions about anything having to do with the law, law firm employees are in a special position and have some limitation that other industries do not have. Statements in public forums may inadvertently create an attorney-client relationship, and may also violate the rules prohibiting law firm advertising.
Build Your Army Of Brand Advocates From Across The Enterprise. Jeremy.zawodny.com/yahoo/yahoo-blog-guidelines.pdf. 57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources. 2013's Complex Social Media Landscape in One Chart. Social media Schizophrenia. This article is inspired by an earlier featured article by Rikki Tholstrup – “A Life Apart”, who touched upon the topic of the perfect perception that we are creating for ourselves via social media.
I, like most modern-day people have various social media accounts. I stay active on the majority of them and I have a community around me. Google Plus Search and Google Authorship Case Study. The Question How does Google+ and Authorship Influence Search Engine Rankings? Background In a recent post on YouMoz , I discussed the rankings success and traffic increase that my brand new site received immediately after implementing Google Authorship on the Jeffalytics blog.
My conclusion was that Google Authorship was the root cause of the success, because the site received a sudden increase in traffic shortly after I implemented Google Authorship on the site. The truth is that there were too many variables to be considered in that experiment, so further experimentation is needed for the results to be more conclusive. The following post outlines an experiment I conducted over a 3 week period using a more scientific approach to isolate the impact of Google+ Authorship on search results. Hypothesis. The Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media Auto Posting Your Content. If you are like me, you spend a lot of time crafting the perfect blog post. You set down to write the definitive post about a topic, conduct research, and endure several rewrites until you have an article that you feel is worthy of publishing. Great content takes hours (sometimes days, weeks or years) to write and by the time you are done, you are ready to move on to something else.
For those of us who are not professional writers, much of this writing time goes on during a time where your readers aren’t online en masse. For example, I am writing this blog post on a Sunday afternoon. Chiquita Fruit Solutions. Cocktail Dessert Shrimp Bundt Cake Mustard Passion Fruit © 2013 Chiquita Brands L.L.C.
All Rights Reserved. Mobile CRM Apps To Grow 500% By 2014 As Market Turns With Decline In PC Shipments. Gartner Research is reporting mobile CRM apps will grow 500 percent by 2014, another sign of a shifting market that has more to do with work getting done in the cloud more so than from a server behind the firewall. This is buttressed by Gartner’s news that SaaS providers will represent more than 50 percent of profits in the CRM market by 2016 and the steep decline in PC shipments that Gartner reported yesterday. Gartner reports there are 200 apps now in app stores. By 2014, there will be 1,200. Mobile apps will come in a variety of flavors, attacking specific aspects of the CRM experience. Gartner, citing a CIO survey of more than 2,000 people, predicts that vendors will need to build mobile apps around their specific strengths.
Gartner also reported that Salesforce.com remains the No. 1 CRM vendor with 26 percent growth and $2.5 billion in revenue last year. The rise of mobile apps comes with a decline in PC shipments. Mobile’s rise also reflects the growing momentum for SaaS. How to Trigger Word of Mouth. “THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS” 1979. Author of Contagious. Joe Dager Trending. Use of social media. Pew Internet: Social Networking (full detail) Highlights of the Pew Internet Project’s research related to social networking.
The 4 C's of Social Media Strategy ~ The Social Media Strategy Blog. Teaming & leadership. Social Journalism. The Mind's I. The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul is a 1981 collection of essays and other texts about the nature of the mind and the self, edited with commentary by popular science writers Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. The texts range from early philosophical and fictional musings on a subject that could seemingly only be examined in the realm of thought, to works from the 20th century where the nature of the self became a viable topic for scientific study.
Home » Social Media Week. Empowering change through collaboration. Leadership training, leadership tips, theory, skills, for leadership training and development. Home » leadership/management » leadership leadership development methods and tips This leadership tips webpage is a general guide to modern ethical progressive leadership. See also the leadership theories article for explanations and summaries of the main leadership theories. Explaining and understanding the nature of good leadership is probably easier than practising it. 4 Big Barriers to Social Media Adoption in Organizations: Key Research Findings. Researchers And Social Media: Uptake Increases When Obvious Benefits Result. Image via Wikipedia. Sren from Cambodia.
By 2014, 1 in 10 Social Media Reviews Will Be Fake [STUDY] For most of us, an exceptional number of top-notch online reviews determines which movie, hotel room, car or gadget we will choose over the competition. It's the same for foodies deciding where to host a celebratory dinner or just looking for a great morning cup of joe. What's now a huge problem with falsified online restaurant reviews is going to explode over time. The Financial State of Social CRM. The world of social customer relationship management, or social CRM, has moved from its infancy to a full-fledged money-making industry in the past year. Technology research group Gartner predicts that the industry will be worth $2.1 billion in 2012, a 147 percent increase from the previous year ($850 million).
Social media archiving - 8 emerging solutions to watch. Top 10 social media questions. Mainstay Salire Study: Hearsay Social Delivers Significant ROI to Businesses in Retail, Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, and Education. The Top 9 Reasons You’re A Terrible Facebook Friend [STUDY] Marketing Is Dead - Bill Lee. 10 Online Security Tips for Gen Y. Gartner cites importance and potential of social media.