In her post about social media trends in 2012 Beverly Macy says content curation is important because people want to know what’s important and they want to discover interesting and relevant content. “Competitive advantage goes to companies who quickly figure out how to enable effective aggregation curation. Look for rapid innovation in this field.” There [...]
Booz & Co and Buddy Media’s recent study on the state of social media and marketing offer some interesting insights into what companies are doing now – and where they plan to invest in the future. For instance: Social media is primarily the domain of marketing. Less than half (48%) of companies have PR leading [...]
In the summer of 2010 Google completed the Caffeine update, which allowed them to rapidly index fresh content across the web. This week Google announced that they had done another major update based on freshness of content to cope with the burgeoning amount of social content available online. “Search results, like warm cookies right out [...]
To be successful in social media you need to listen, learn and respond. Some companies are not even listening: In Europe just under a third of companies have implemented monitoring and analysis of the social media conversations. (Social Media Governance 2011) In the US 55 percent use search alerts , but only 16 percent are [...]
OutBrain recently released an update to their Content Discovery and Engagement Report. The original study was done in Q1 and the update is for Q2. Top 20 Traffic Sources to Content Pages 1 Google 2 Yahoo 3 AOL/Huffington Post 4 Facebook 5 MSN* 6 Drudge Report 7 CNN 8 Outbrain 9 StumbleUpon 10 Twitter 11 [...]
Is social media important to the future success of your business? Yes, said 78% of participating executives in the recent study from Jive Software and Penn, Schoen, & Berland. These execs see social media as a key factor in business strategy and direction. Businesses are avidly chasing the 3Fs – friends, fans and followers. And [...]
In the State of the Media 2011 Pew Research stated that search is the one factor that most affected the news business in the past decade. Since news is a vital part of PR, perhaps we should examine how search plays a part in PR and media relations. For the past 100 years companies have [...]
An image is indeed worth a thousand words. Good images in your blog posts, articles and releases can affect how they are viewed, how they are picked-up, who re-publishes them, search ranking, and how your blog is rated. SEO Although search engines can’t read visual material, having an image with a blog post, article or [...]
In an earlier post I posted some research about how companies are struggling to measure social media ROI. Wave 2 of The Faces of Social MediaSM from Knowledge Networks might provide a clue: Purchase decisions of 38 million 13 to 80 year-olds in the U.S. are now influenced in various ways by social media — [...]
47% of firms surveyed globally use social media to find new business, an increase of 7% from last year. (Source Regus survey via The Street) China and India lead the pack: 65% of Chinese firms (vs. 44% last year) and 61% of Indian companies (vs. 52%) successfully use social media to acquire customers. Next are [...]
