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PR Meets Marketing. Social Media in China. Social Media Marketing. Products « Social Media Monitoring and Engagement – Radian6. Trends. Social Media Monitoring Tools: 26 Free Online Reputation Tools. Asia Digital Map. China IWOM Blog- Making Sense of the Buzz. Mogujie.com launched a new online product, “ Free Group Purchase ”, at 5 p.m. on the 1st of March, encouraging users to initiate a group purchase on any product they want. This “C2B” group purchase would be achievedas long as they round up enough participants.

So far, more than 15,000 group purchases have been started, 100 of which have been successful. Social platform meishixing.com has at last launched a web version. For what is essentially a Pinterest clone, this web version features organizing and sharing features for foodies to share photos of all their favorite eats. You’re also able to search for the hottest content (or shoulf that be filling?) In your city and share that with your online friends too. Think of it a bit like social bookmarking of menu pages. Taobao.com released its 2011 yearly report on users’ consumption data on 27 th of February. Starbucks China have released their first App (click to download) for iPhone and Android.

{*style:<b>Social Strategy Guidebook </b>*} BlogPulse. Social Media Metrics Superlist: Measurement, ROI, & Key Statistics Resources. Are you using content marketing as part of your digital strategy to grow your business? If so, you're not alone. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the lion's share of marketers (some 92%) report using content marketing. In the fast moving world of digital strategy, things are always changing. What should you expect in 2014 to change in the world of content marketing? Hana Abaza of Uberflip has put together an infographic detailing five key content marekting trends for the coming year.

In summary, they are: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Home. Internet Marketing News | Marketing Pilgrim. Social media strategy consulting,Social media tools,Social media marketing solutions. Social CRM (SCRM) Toolkit: List of Social Media Management Systems | Gauravonomics Blog For Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Activists. Walter Adamson. International - Social Media Academy. Being Peter Kim. List of Social Media Management Systems (SMMS) Pain: Social Media Teams Are Challenged To Respond To the Distributed Conversations I’m starting to get a few briefings and requests from strategists LaSandra Brill, about new technologies that enable social marketers to quickly manage, maintain, and conduct reporting on multiple channels.

The issue of lack of scale is resonating with social strategists –as a result, the market is developing new tools that will help them manage them. This is one component of Social CRM, which if you haven’t heard about, please read the report on the 18 use cases of Social CRM. (Update: This is only one software segment in the overall Social Business Stack, which you should first understand) Above is the full report, feel free to read, download and share.

Update: Jan 5th, 2012. After nearly two years of watching this nascent market, Altimeter has published a report segmenting the growing vendor space. Retired This vendors never want to market or went into deadpool. Jeffbullas. I sent an invite to a past colleague of mine to be a friend on Facebook just recently and he sent me back an interesting email, which in essence said. ” I only have time for one social media channel (it happened to be LinkedIn), so don’t be offended if I politely refuse, but if you want to communicate through LinkedIn, I am more than happy to” This was both refreshingly honest and revealing about the social media “avalanche” that invites us to participate and sweeps past us every day. So this begs the question, how many social media channels should you be using for your company?

There isn’t a simple answer to that question but it is more a matter of the resources that you have available, both in time and money to engage in Social Media effectively. Some of the big brands engage in more than ten. See the Report on the Top 100 Brands Engagenment With Social Media and my insights from the report. So how many “Social Media” Channels are some of the top brands using? Toyota 7 3 Staff 1. 2. 3. Mashup Roundup. Social Media Mashup Tools. A few interesting tools I’ve been made aware of recently that online marketers could use for making their social media more interesting or different include the following tools to add text to images or video: BubblePLY – Enables you to add narrative bubbles to video. From a practical standpoint, this is helpful for offering translated versions of a video. Comeeko – Create comic strips from your photos. I’m sure there are a host of other tools for mashing up and modifying original media.

Feel free to suggest your favorites in the comments. _communistparty. Kpi. How Are You Measuring Your Community? It feels like I’ve written this a lot over the past few weeks, but if you weren’t tracking and measuring social media and your community efforts in 2009 – you need to get on that. Because it’s not rainbows and butterflies and sparkles. Community building is about dollars. More specifically, it’s about putting those dollars in your bank account by connecting with and building relationships with real people. One thing I’ve noticed when talking to business owners and clients is that they understand that they should be tracking ROI on community activities, they’re just not sure how or what they should be looking for.

Measuring community activities is a bit of a moving target and we’re constantly adding new things to the fold to monitor and determine. Here’s a working list of some of what we’re looking at right now. Growth This is a no-brainer and where most people will start, and sometimes, get stuck. In terms of Growth, we look at: Presence Another metric you want to look at is Presence. Social Media Metrics. Social Media Measurement KPIs - SocialTech 2010. Jeremiah Owyang , who will be speaking at SocialTech 2010 in March, sent out a Tweet asking if anyone had a "list of Social Media Measurement KPIs. " Among the responses he received, he called this list compiled by Rachel Happe "the best," he found this list compiled by Lisa Barone "interesting as tactical measurements," and also thought that some of the factors compiled by Chris Lake were good, though not clearly organized by "business objective" (I also found this list sort of "kitchen-sink-y").

The length of these lists can be a little daunting and serves to remind me that the key to selecting appropriate KPIs in any endeavor is to keep the number of them manageable. One way to do that is to identify those KPIs which are tightly linked to the business results you are trying to achieve. Of course, that last sentence highlights the fact that KPIs are rarely (never?)

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