Vocus has released a new and improved version of its social media monitoring software, the Summer '10 Edition. The new application focuses on monitoring and analyzing the massive amounts of online information spread across blogs, forums, Twitter, LinkedIn and other online communities, identify and help engage key influencers.
Coca-Cola has revealed its new social media model. It is called the 4P model, namely reviewing, responding, recording and redirecting. There's nothing quite revolutionary behind the fancy naming, but it is a tested, well documented, experiment and success backed model to help them accomplish marketing and sales goals.
Have you ever thought this: "I'd get involved in social media, but there's just no way to tell if I'm getting any results from it." That is an excuse that I hear often from companies who aren't yet involved in social media. That's it is, though--an excuse.
As Google and Facebook spur us to question motives around consumer data privacy, we look at what this means for brands and marketing.
As Facebook continues to gain new users, its changes to its privacy settings land Facebook in the hot seat, defending its image.
While Obama blames the BP (BP.L), Halliburton (HAL.N) and Transocean Ltd. (RIG.N) executives for the “ridiculous spectacle” at the congressional hearings on the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil continues to leak. The world is tired of pointing fingers and needs concrete actions. BP apparently got the message.
An anti-Facebook social network is under way, and its growing interest signifies a changing attitude towards our standards of social networking.
Only a month after the much hyped Promoted Tweets advertising service launch, early adopters are taking the stage to share their promissing results story. Speed sales, millions being made and record visits on their website, the Twitter advertising program sounds like a big hit.
How can a PR get the most from social media without making any damaging social media mistakes? Many PRs have started tapping into the "expertise" of a new breed of entrepreneur--the social media guru.
A recent Pew Research Center report shows that almost all of America’s netizens have interacted online in one way or another with government agencies in the past 12 months. While the results are impressive, we're still far from real interaction, dialogues and open debate on official Internet channels. Netizens still rely on offline sources of information and keep the real idea exchange on other platforms.