Feb
02
2012

The Evolving Digital Divide

Digital Divide
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Jan
25
2012

How to Improve Social Networking for Your Business

A segment of a social network

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Around 2009, small business followed the lead of big businesses and created pages on social network sites right and left. They might have heard somewhere on the Internet that social network is a great way to reach customers and profiles are free to set up, so why not?

A lot of those pages are graveyards now. They haven’t been updated in months and almost nobody Likes them. They didn’t even get a very good response when they were active.

A lot of businesses gave up once they didn’t see a surge in new customers, but no form of advertising can do that for very little work. Everything worth anything takes time and effort, and companies forgot that because they expected social network profiles to provide instant rewards with little effort. Social network requires effort just like any other form of marketing outreach, so how can you improve your social network marketing campaign? [Read more...]

Dec
21
2011

Sazcast Episode 35 – Twitter Analytics with Dave Peckens

sazcastlogo250Twitter Analytics – Why, What & How to Measure Your Efforts on Twitter with co-host Dave Peckens.

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Nov
14
2011

Using SEO & Keyword Insights to Build Communities

I gave a talk on how to use the keyword and search engine insights for your website to build a community at FOLIO:SHOW 2011 earlier this month. The great thing about digital content is that we have so much data about how people are getting to it, sharing it and using it.  We can use this data to create content & products that our audience actually wants, leading to higher revenue streams.

Oct
27
2011

Becoming a Social Business

Becoming a social business is so much more than using social media. Kristie Wells, co-founder of the Social Media Club, explains in this presentation….

Becoming a Social Business
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Oct
20
2011

Internet Trends via Mary Meeker — October 2011

If you want to know what the latest trends are for the Internet, Mary Meeker is the absolute expert.  Here is her presentation from the Web 2.0 Summit on October 18, 2011.

Oct
06
2011

How To Become Confident In Your Internet Video Blogs

This is a guest post by Andy Havard, who is a Marketing Executive at Skeleton Productions, a UK based Internet video production company.

Video blogs are rapidly taking over the blogging world, but many Internet users are still apprehensive about making the transition from text blogging to video blogging. A lot of text bloggers struggle with the idea of getting confident on camera, especially when it’s outside of their traditional blogging comfort zone. The following article explores how you can create confident video blogs on the Internet and enjoy the popularity that ‘vlogging’ is receiving across the web. [Read more...]

Sep
28
2011

Making the Case for Social Media

Trying to make the case for social media for your business or organization? Shift Communications has some great tips for talking points to put it all into perspective (warning: the second video in this presentation has swear words and may not be safe for work — but can be skipped.  It’s a video from a consumer upset with Sony and their data breach for the Playstation Network).

Sep
22
2011

Interview with BSC Designer

BSC Designer, creator of Balanced Scorecard software, was kind enough to interview me about social media measurement. If you’re a regular reader here, you know measurement is very important to me — it helps you make the right decisions about your business and the strategies and tactics you use to reach your objectives. In this interview, we discuss some of the guidelines to choosing the right social media measurements, as well as how measuring social media (and digital tactics) compares to measuring other business processes.

Interview with Sarah Worsham on BSC Designer

Feel free to ask any questions in the comments.

Sep
20
2011

The No BS Guide to Social Media Monitoring & Measurement

Jason Falls has some great tips on social media monitoring & measurement (and the difference between them) in this presentation. Very similar to my own thinking on the subject.