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Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight
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Social marketing, PR insight & thought leadership - from The PR Coach
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Jeff Domansky
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I was recently quoted as saying, “I don’t give a shit” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you’ll note there’s a big “if” before my not giving of said shit. As quoted: "If you think about the impact Twitter has on the world versus Instagram, it’s pretty significant. It’s at least apples to oranges. Twitter is what we wanted it to be. It’s this realtime information network where everything in the world that happens on Twitter — important stuff breaks on Twitter and world leaders have conversations on Twitter. If that’s happening, I frankly don’t give a shit if Instagram has more people looking at pretty pictures." Of course, I am trivializing what Instagram is to many people. It’s a beautifully executed app that enables the creation and enjoyment of art, as well as human connection, which is often a good thing. But my rant had very little to do with it (or with Twitter). My rant was the result of increasing frustration with the one-dimensionality that those who report on, invest in, and build consumer Internet services talk about success....
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Twitter CEO Ev Williams launches into the shallowness of coverage of social media by media who should be doing their jobs better. It's an excellent look at social media and the metrics that matter. 
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...Organizations such as Intel are beginning to look and operate more like media companies. They’re evaluating topics and trends in real-time and creating a brand narrative across multiple networks, a transition that doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of content to fuel that many channels–and a dedicated team to manage the ideation, creation, and analysis of that content. More importantly, it takes a lot of quality content to generate engagement with audiences across continents and timezones, and for Intel engagement is a key metric.
In fact, Intel conducted a study benchmarking the Facebook engagement rates of other brands similar to Intel in size and standing. They found–much to their delight–that Intel came out on top with higher levels of engagement than any of the other brands. Intel also discovered that organic engagement (vs. paid) had steadily increased over time, confirming the right content is hitting the right audience.
But how does Intel come up with the “right” content, then find the “right” audience? What are they doing differently than those other brands?...
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Great insight into a content marketing leader and powerhouse.
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Charlene Li argues that being active on social media is different for leaders, and requires a special set of skills."It's one thing for your organization to be tweeting and making videos and sharing content, and it's quite a different thing for you as a leader to go out there."One of the challenges, she says, is that leadership is an art--everyone does it differently. This makes it hard to create a single blueprint for exercising leadership through social channels....
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One of the most influential women in technology argues that being active on social media is different for leaders, and requires a special set of skills.
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Peter Aceto, the CEO of Tangerine, recently said in The Globe and Mail, “I would rather engage in a Twitter conversation with a single customer than see our company attempt to attract the attention of millions in a coveted Superbowl commercial. ”This is the preference of a truly social CEO. Unfortunately, chief executives that embrace and understand the promise of social media are rare, so rare that we call them “blue unicorns” in our book, A World Gone Social. Why blue unicorns? Because CEOs that embrace social as much as leaders like Aceto are still so uncommon that we aren’t just looking for any unicorn, we’re looking for a specific color of unicorn....
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Social media savvy CEOs are there to connect, not to promote according to the Harvard Business Review.
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Mathew Sweezey shares a helpful list of marketing thought leaders to follow.