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Business Intelligence Tools to Understand External Online Data

If there’s all this great information in big data, why do we have such a hard time getting to the part with the deep business insights? One issue is related to getting a better handle on influence.  But it’s also … Continue reading

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Can we unlock insights in big data using influence?

For the last couple posts, I have focused a lot of energy into trying to illustrate the power of influence on engagement strategies.  With so many voices contributing content, how can we focus on the conversations which are going to … Continue reading

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How Fast Can You Move?

Yesterday, after the Oscars, the general news media from CNN to the New York Times began speculating on the way that micro-media like Twitter could change the way that national broadcasts are produced. Richard Robbins, the director of social innovation … Continue reading

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Listen. We want to help you sell more.

For most of our clients, social media is a no-brainer. Let’s face it. Even the mom-and-pop deli below the office has a Twitter and Facebook page. But what is scary is that companies with millions/billions in revenue, multiple locations and … Continue reading

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Insights that are Bigger than 140 Characters.

A fundamental part of the strategies that we implement for clients include a listening analysis or audit that takes a baseline of all the social media conversations that are taking place across over half a billion sources of user generated … Continue reading

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Measuring Social Media… Meaningfully

One of the reasons that I like reading white papers by the Altimeter Group is that the papers typically have a concise and implentable method to the madness.  For most of the clients that I work with, we are seeing an often … Continue reading

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Thinking “outside the box” with social media

Use social media as way to expand your thinking around product and corporate innovation. There are typically two sources that have the most information about your customers and your products: your customers and your ground level employees. Listen to what they say and act on it. Continue reading

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Product innovation through social media

Within the social media monitoring space, there is a lot of talk of using social media to innovate products and determine how trending data is pointing to new places that your customer wants products to go.  But how realistic is … Continue reading

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