Wednesday 31 October 2012

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Queen is most retweeted as ITV scores on Twitter with 'Pride of Britain' awards
31 October 2012, 2:17PM

Pride of Britain presenter Carol VordermanLast night was the 14th annual Pride Of Britain awards, an annual event honouring Britons who have acted bravely or extraordinarily in challenging situations. Using Sysomos, as well as our own ECHOscreen social intelligence tools, we had a look at the 200,638 tweets around the show both as it was recorded on Monday night, and televised by ITV on Tuesday.

How social media reacted to the $4bn Star Wars Disney deal
31 October 2012, 11:59AM

Return of the Franchise - Star Wars Episode VII is on the wayMost of us woke up this morning to hear the news that George Lucas had sold his film company, LucasFilm, to entertainment giant Disney for $4.1bn (£2.5bn), and a new ‘Star Wars’ film is planned for 2015.

How to conduct a social media audit
31 October 2012, 11:23AM

How to conduct a social media auditIt is essential to carry out a social media audit, be it at the start of a campaign, or for a new pitch prospect, or even a regular quarterly "MOT" of your own social media programmes. This should stand aside from the regular monthly key performance indicator (KPI) reports that campaign managers should run and it helps if someone neutral and unconnected with the programme conducts it to avoid any misrepresentation of the data and to add new ideas.

Mitt Romney and the importance of knowing your Facebook friends
31 October 2012, 9:54AM

Mitt Romney and his faceook friendsWith the Presidential Election in its final week and given the huge conversation that has been taking place throughout social during the campaign, the problem of brands achieving real value from Facebook has been whirring in my mind.

News Fakers: Twitter troll apologises for posting fake hurricane Sandy news
31 October 2012, 9:13AM

Hurricane Sandy: this scary looking shot of high seas surrounding a wave-battered Statue of Liberty turned out to be production art from the disaster movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'A hedge fund analyst in New York City, Shashank Tripathi, apologised last night for posting fake Hurricane Sandy news updates on Twitter. Tripathi who uses the Twitter handle @ComfortablySmug sent out a series of fake tweets claiming more dire news about the storm hitting New York City.

American Apparel and Gap cause Twitter outrage with Hurricane Sandy sales
30 October 2012, 2:58PM

American Apparel causes Twitter outrage with 'Hurricane Sandy Sale'When will brands ever learn? Do people not use the internet and read stuff? When it comes to social media we are now at a point when we have a fat pile of case files detailing how various brands have failed at social media, but this does not apparently stop other brands copying these mistakes over and over again.

Hacking Hurrricane Sandy - online community comes together against storm
30 October 2012, 12:42PM

We all know the increasingly outdated and cliched image of hackers – a young, socially awkward man, in a basement causing chaos (this despite the best efforts of Angelina Jolie). There is now a more socially aware type of hacker coming to the fore, using social media and opensource tools to build digital projects to help their community.

Ann Summers shows how to keep a grip rapidly growing online community
30 October 2012, 10:27AM

Ann Summers TV ad campaign from Nov 2011Its clear that the internet's function as a 'two-way communication channel' has revolutionized the traditional relationship between an organisation and its public. However with the word 'social' now dominating internet lingo, the term 'two-way communication channel' becomes a dated understatement.

Obama campaign shows how digital has changed politics 2.0 for all
30 October 2012, 9:12AM

A nice little ad here from Barack Obama’s campaign that seems to perfectly illustrate the impact that digital has had on politics during this Presidential Election campaign. It features Walter, a 91-year-old World War II veteran, at home with his phone and his laptop making telephone canvassing calls for the Obama campaign.

Three Myths of social media ROI [infographic]
29 October 2012, 3:48PM

Despite how far we have come in social media and its exponential growth ROI still remains one of, if not the biggest, challenge that marketers face when it comes to using social. This infographic takes a good stab at dispelling some of those myths that have over time become widely accepted truths.

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