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Neither Mario Sundar from LinkedIn with his blog, nor Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO writing a commentary in yesterday’s Financial Times should use their positions as opinion leaders in the blogosphere or business community to voice their opinions about today’s presidential election in the U.S. – they both did …

Why should we have a blog and what will it do for us? Daimler’s corporate blog (e.g., Freightliner, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, Smart and other brands) is soon celebrating its first birthday. Time to reflect on its performance, does it deliver the beacon?

Political blogs are still rare but ever more politicians are beginning to launch thier own blog – the trickle could be picking up pace. So how well are they doing? We start a series of posts about how well they avoid making the usual mistakes … so do some don’t.

Social media analytics matter. This post addresses the challenges for blogging politicians, such as the Obama-Biden ’08 dream-team and John McCain’s efforts on Twitter ;-). Politicians are using social media for reaching out to the public more effectively. How effective are they? Ropes to skip ==> we help you move from good practice to best practice when it comes to blogging.

If you cannot understand it, don’t measure it. Moreover, there are two critical questions you have to ask yourself when trying to measure your social media or blogging success:

1. What do you want to know? Identify the metrics that have a significant impact on the bottom line – focus on outcome.

2. What are you going to do with data obtained? Get data that will be used to make a decision and ignore the rest.

Web 2.0 technologies are here to stay, and social media is becoming an important tool for public relations experts and marketing gurus. This trend has resulted in a growing interest in measurements and metrics that are supposed to help assess one’s progress in the use of social media for brand building, communicating and so on. […]

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Are you using Feedburner, Feedblitz, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups or other free services. By doing so, you may antangonize your target audience. So before benchmarking – do some house cleaning first. Recently much attention has been focusing on metrics and benchmarking. We have posted some material ourselves including links to important metrics stuff on the […]

So post-it notes and notebooks is what Twitter is to blogs – a sort of micro-blogging that is becoming ever more popular with users. Some have argued that all this microblogging is helping us to become less effective Some people have compared post-it notes and notebooks to what Twitter is to blogs. However, Twitter is […]

Daily Me: Benchmarking Arianna Huffington

by Urs E. Gattiker on 2008/04/08 1 views

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Web wins in White House race – but besides being good for Arianna Huffington’s daily me blogging – is it any good for you voters out there? More than a decade ago the technology specialist, Nicholas Negroponte, pro-phesied the emergence of the Daily Me – a fully personalized newspaper. During these times, the US presidential […]