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Using Twitter for Brands or Corporate Identities " Fast Wonder: Online ... TOP 100+ Finnish Brands on Facebook " Deceptive Cadence. What does facts about Facebook brand presence look like, really?

TOP 100+ Finnish Brands on Facebook " Deceptive Cadence

With the relentless coverage in media, every man and his dog has an opinion about social media and Facebook. On the other hand, you have the social media gurus and true believers preaching about a revolution. On the other hand, you have the more traditional advertising pros who claim to understand the new more social approach to marketing, but continue doing things the old way.

Luckily there’s companies like Sysomos, who give us real facts. Sysomos analyzed 600000 Facebook pages and made the results public, nice, I’ll come back to those later. The most interesting find based on this list is that content is king (all creative people say yeah!) Quality of execution must be crucial, since there are such huge differences in the amount of fans on a seemingly similar brands. Sysomos studied a whopping 600,000 pages and blogged the results. Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter " Web Strategy by ... Last week, I listed out 9 reasons Why Brands Are Unsuccessful In Twitter, and other microblogging technologies.

Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter " Web Strategy by ...

Companies are caught between the minutia of the discussions and their willingness to be human or add value to the conversations. Although a one-sided view of what’s going wrong, now let’s focus on what’s going right. I’m watching –and talking– to many brands that are choosing to engage with this seemingly endless stream of personal thoughts, updates, and conversations within Twitter. Web Strategy: The Evolution of Brands on Twitter Babysteps: First, identifying if this is the right marketplace Brands need to first evaluate if the community members within Twitter are the audience they’re trying to reach.

The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing. 5 Most Engaged Brands in Social Media. Engaging in social media is about being extremely open, creative and flexible.

5 Most Engaged Brands in Social Media

To stay competitive online, brands need to be investing in social media as a way to extend themselves to their customers. While advertising and cultivating an image are still important, it's interaction that creates loyal customers. Using social media to show customers that your business is connected to what they say, think and feel about your products can amplify your brand's message. We've compiled a list of five big brands that are most engaged in social media, and that go to extensive lengths to connect with consumers. Add your own thoughts on which brands are ahead of the curve in the comments below. 1. Starbucks is on just about every corner in the real world, and that's the same strategy the company has taken online as well.

Take a quick look at the coffee giant's Twitter page, and you'll see the company has just more than 1 million followers. 2. 3. 4. 5. Your Guide to Job Search and Personal Branding on Twitter. Twitter--the 140 character social networking site--is becoming increasingly useful for job seekers.

Your Guide to Job Search and Personal Branding on Twitter

It doesn't work for everyone, of course, but it can certainly turbo-charge your networking, a key strategy for successful job hunting. It can also be an effective part of your personal branding campaign. Here, then, is a (somewhat) definitive link guide to getting a new job (or losing your current one) through Tweeting. (I put this together for a client, so thought it would be nice to share). Launch of Social Media Strategy Framework - Trends in the Living Networks. Today we launch our Social Media Strategy Framework.

Launch of Social Media Strategy Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

This provides guidance and a frame on how organizations can approach engaging with social media, following in the tradition of our highly popular frameworks such as Web 2.0 Framework, Future of the Media Lifecycle, and Influence Landscape. Click on the image to download pdf [UPDATE:] The image and file above is of the updated Beta version 2 of the Social Media Strategy diagram – see here for a brief explanation. Click here to download the Beta version 1 diagram. 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them. We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around.

40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them

Some of them don't quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won't find any of those brands here. We've handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they're using Twitter. If some of their responses seem short, well that's because they are. I asked each brand correspondent to answer our queries in 140 characters or less. Most of them got the point, a few rambled on a bit too long, and only asked me if "u" was acceptable in lieu of "you.

" Smart brands use Twitter in meaningful ways, and most of them use their brand name as a way to make sure customers can find and recognize them. And if you're a brand that didn't make our list, let us know why your tweets deserve consideration in the comments. Cars.