Building A Real Twitter Community At #SXSW with Nestivity
We’ve heard it time and time again: Twitter is a great community-building tool. And I agree, in part – there is the potential for Twitter to be a fantastic place for deep, meaningful connections and powerful communities. But it’s not quite there yet.
The reality is, the majority of tweets go unanswered. The Acquity Group studied the behavior of Interbrand’s 2012 Best Retail Brands and found them lacking on Twitter. A full 73 percent of customer tweets were ignored. Despite thousands of consumers reaching out, wanting to engage brands, those brands simply don’t respond.
Five Steps to Start Innovating
Have you ever thought about how great innovators are able to come up with new insights that lead to brilliant ideas? It’s no coincidence. Utilizing observations, experiences, facts and emotions, while examining their…
Think Like Zuck: 5 Business Success Secrets from the Great Leaders of Our Time
At the age of 28, Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s 29-richest person and his company Facebook has over one billion users worldwide, only eight years after it was set up. Yet Zuckerberg “never wanted to run a company,” he said. “To me a business is a good vehicle for getting stuff done.”
Those Who Influence Me ~ Merry Christmas
We talk a lot about what it means to be influential and often focus on the scientific and business aspects of influence as they apply to the internet and social media. But at this time of year we need to take some time to put that logical reasoning aside, look at who influences us personally, and think about what that means for us in the coming year.
A Century Later, Business Gets Personal…Again
Personal communication technologies such as smartphones are playing a huge role in the end of mass communications. They are often worn on the body. They are highly individualized and they are regarded as extensions of the self. They make us individually addressable, regardless of where we are. Putting this into context, a mobile phone today is in the possession of the average user for 5,840 hours per year. That compares to the 2,920 hours the average user in developed markets spends in front of a PC and the average 1,865 hours spent watching television.
Social Media Is Much More Than Just Social and Media
To be most effective in social media, it is helpful to think of its components as forming a cube, with social and media as two of the sides. The additional sides of this cube are object and timing. In modern society, we choose to have our objects define us. In other words, objects such as cars, houses, iPads, etc. define who we are as much as our actions do. “We buy watches not just to tell time, but to have a good time. We buy sunglasses not just to see better, but to be seen.” explains Debra Kaye an award winning innovation expert.
The Unspoken Truth About Influential Liars
As Judge Judy says, “How do you know when teenagers are lying? Their lips are moving!” Does a similar test apply in the social universe today…“How do you know when online influencers are lying? Their Klout scores are rising!” By taking the actions necessary to be seen as experts or influencers many online users lie, either intentionally or unintentionally. If Klout says Retweets and likes will raise your score that may subconsciously motivate users to come up with something that is “likable,” even though it may not be the truth. It’s a lie that a high Klout score means someone is a star, an influencer, or an expert because those scores can be manipulated as easily as the media.
