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The ComMetrics social media diary is our summary of who we met in the social media space, as well as marketing buzz, metrics trends and tidbits worth sharing.

Social media trends: Pepsi’s charity contest

by Urs E. Gattiker on 2010/03/04 · 13 comments 13,398 views

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JPMorgan Chase and Pepsi tried new marketing on social media and failed transparency tests. These are the trends social media has not started, but now follows.

What good is Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn for your business? We share our experiences and show you how it might work for your business.

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.

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 […]

How to make sure much of the conversation is being lost in the shuffle; or what it takes to stop the conversation before it had a chance to start What to do to stop the conversation from continuing when using social media tools. BBC has its own blogs, of course. These are successful destinations for […]

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 […]

Intel is using the SEC’s new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials smartly. 2008-04-02 Intel Corporation demonstrated that the Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC – U.S. regulatory agency) new default electronic delivery process for e-proxy materials works GREAT if used correctly. We have been watching about 200 companies or there abouts using the new […]

Going Solo: Ropes to Skip

by Urs E. Gattiker on 2008/03/31 1 views

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One of our readers has read about Going Solo – an upcoming conference in Lausanne (see logo below) and wanted to know if he should attend AND what he might get out of it. I tried to assess this issue from my perspective. Please keep in mind that I have registered myself, paid the fee […]

One of our readers has sent us a question. We think you might be interested in hearing about our answer to this reader. The question below addresses the strategic issue about how to identify and serve one’s niche more effectively, while making one’s blog more attractive to the target audience(s). The question posted to us […]