Is your Twitter Stream Selfish?
Running through Feedia's Twitter Stream this morning it's easy to identify which of our followers are selfish and which aren't.
What do I mean by selfish?
It's all about them and not their followers or customers. Let me ask you a few questions:
1 Comment(s)Chefs at social media
Looking through my personal and Feedia's Twitter feed this morning it's noticeable that restaurants are using this channel to effectively engage and connect with their existing customers.
A few local and international businesses spring to mind, when looking into restaurants social media strategies.
@kogibbq
1 Comment(s)Is your business daunted by social media? Don't be!
I speak to a lot of business about introducing social media into their online marketing. Often when first introducing this to some businesses, I look across the table to a daunted client. Social media doesn't need to make you feel this way, in fact the polar opposite.
Social media
There are all different types of Social Media around and it can become overwhelming to know which ones to use and how to use them.
0 Comment(s)Political Interfaces
It's Monday and already we've found a new interactive visualisation to get all gar-garh over.
The New Political Interfaces visualise the influence of new means of communication in politics. This visualisation has been inspired by the influence of social networking systems in the Obama campaign; the creative team looked into content generated by official sources and political parties, in contrast to those generated by individuals in online systems.
0 Comment(s)Twitter Statistics you'll have to RT!
Twitter's success over this past year has been incredible to watch. Who knew that such a 'simple' concept could have had such an impact on the digital world?
What's even more interesting about Twitter is the statistics that plot it's success. As our clients, peers and readers know, we love interesting statistics and facts! So we bring you a year of Twitter.
0 Comment(s)Christmas Tweets
It's Monday morning and we have already discovered another amazing Twitter interactive visualisation. This visualisation, by Twentysix, searches tweets based on keywords relating to Christmas.
This visualisation aims to give meaning to the 2009 Christmas season. All keywords are placed into 4 categories and represented by a festive character. The more tweets each category receives, the faster Christmas spirit, commercialism, credit crunch and religion travel around the world.
0 Comment(s)So you think you are a social media expert?
Social Media, Social Media, Social Media. I want you to actually stop and think about those words for a minute and separate them.
Social - living together in groups, typically in a hierarchical system with complex communication.
Media - the plural form of medium or 'mediums'; the main means of mass communication
Let's think of some synonyms.
Imagine if it was called communal publishing? or community broadcasting? What about community conversation?
1 Comment(s)Tis the season to be jolly, online that is...
Recent research conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation and Yesmail indicates that 27% of online shoppers that plan to research and buy their gifts online this year, will use friends and family's Facebook updates for research.
The results of the report also show that 60% of consumers who plan to use social media whilst doing their holiday shopping will
3 Comment(s)Put your joke into 140 characters - still find it funny?!
Some of the guys in the Feedia office find themselves quite hilarious at the best of times. So how do you take the humor they create and put it into 140 characters - challenging isn't it?
Hmm how can you be witty and funny in 140 characters?
So on this note we thought we would share a few Tweet humorists with you; thanks to a recent article from Mashable we didn't have to trawl through the endless dad jokes spread out on Twitter.
0 Comment(s)Consider your online audience
Social media has opened up a lot of opportunities for dispersing your marketing message across different social media and online platforms. A lot of businesses ask us on a daily basis, how they can effectively disperse and direct their marketing message to appeal to each of their target markets, followers and fans.
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