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Category Archives: Social influence
My Content Marketing II: #Curation, #Contributed + #Branded Content
Looking back I was always a content marketing salesperson. In the days before blogs and email I folded newsletters, stamped and licked envelopes to get content to a targeted community of bank and other financial traders. I curated articles and contributed content and experimented with branded content – all before social media… Continue reading
Personal Learning Networks… A #PLN keeps on giving!
A personal learning network is indispensable for a true life-long learner. No one person can keep up with the rush of information in her/his area of interest, but a good PLN can filter the information and keep one alert of important trends and developments. Continue reading
Twitter Parody: Comic, Creepy, or Criminal?
When do Twitter “parody accounts” become creepy? Should they be illegal w/o the subject’s permission??? Continue reading
Web Credulity
Do you believe everything you read on the Web or see posted, tweeted or pinned on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? Yesterday on my Facebook feed there was a serious discussion of an article from the Daily Currant claiming that Sarah … Continue reading
Teaching SMM #5 – METRICS Monitoring and Listening
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted in 2010: “There was five exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days, and the pace is increasing.” Key metrics of social media efforts should logically include what is being said about an organization in social media or other online conversations. Continue reading
Teaching SMM – METRICS #4 Influence Scores
At the time of this writing, the growing influence of influence measures has generated considerable controversy. There are stories of otherwise qualified candidates allegedly turned down for jobs because their Klout™ or PeerIndex scores were less than 90th percentile level. Continue reading
Posted in Social influence, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Teaching SMM, Text
Tagged Andrew Grill, Appinion, Ferenc Huszár, Justin Beiber, Klout, Kred, Mark Schaefer, Obama's Klout score, PeerIndex
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Teaching SMM – METRICS #3 Measuring Influence: Art or Science?
Multiple services are trying to measure the “influence” of social media participants. At the time of this writing six of the most prominent are Klout (http://www.klout.com), PeerIndex (http://www.peerindex.com), Kred (http://www.kred.com), TweetLevel, TweetGrader, and Twitalyzer. Continue reading
SMM Case Exercise: Public Shaming & Hostile Environment
The world of high-tech start-ups is often referred to as a “boy’s club” where women have difficulty being taken seriously and treated fairly. These series of questions concern a sexual joke at a high-tech conference resulted in public shaming, a DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, and a couple firings. Continue reading
Teaching SMM – METRICS #2 Activity Measures
A starting point to the measures and metrics for social media is an overview of an organization’s activities on social media. It is easy to track activity and it is becoming easier as the social media sites improve their tracking summaries. Continue reading