Social media campaigns, events and travel
Mar 31st, 2013 by @SelenaChanLive
Discussing digital trends today, I stumbled across this infographic on 2013 trends.
What do you think is trending this year? Thanks for sharing @candylandau.
Mar 24th, 2013 by @SelenaChanLive
A collection of digital case studies which highlights how brands have been venturing in the space during 2012.
Brands showcased in the case studies include McDonalds, Mercedes Invisible car, Red Bull Stratos, Share a Coke, Nike Fuel Band, American Express Shop Small, Bodyform The Truth, TNT Push to add Drama, P&G The best Job and many more. Excellent Slideshare deck from @gregfromparis.
Mar 17th, 2013 by @SelenaChanLive
LinkedIn is further illustrating its platform as a place to connect with the most important customers – the global business elite.
A recent post by LinkedIn highlights results of the Global Business Elite survey which state that over a third of the world’s most influential and affluent people use LinkedIn at least once a month. It would be interesting to see these results from an independent source comparing other B2b networks of regional significance. Thanks @ivan2012 for sharing the link.
May 9th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
The Facebook investor roadshow has kicked off this week in New York, Boston and other major US cities in the lead up to its IPO date of May 18th. Facebook have launched a 30 min video to woo investors which includes some interesting insights into the background of the platforms’ product areas and future developments.
Although the video is targeted at investors, it is interesting to watch from a marketing perspective as Facebook explains its business model and how it has used its understanding of technology, people and what drives social movement on and offline to develop its key products. It also highlights its monetisation model and how it is willing to invest in areas that are more uncertain with mobile being a good example of this. Facebook intend to invest heavily in mobile as it’s critical to long term user engagement. Currently only sponsored stories are the only type of paid placement coming through on mobile. It’s always useful to have an understanding of a social platform’s monetisation model so worth a watch if you are a marketeer.
The roadshow has sparked mixed reviews about Facebook’s IPO. If you want to read more about it I found this blog post by Susan Etlinger of Altimeter quite interesting which talks about the 10 implications of a public Facebook.
Cybher is an annual one day event which brings together influential bloggers across tech, parenting, fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle. Held in London on Saturday 12th May, the event is a mecca for women bloggers to network, share and inspire each other through a variety of workshops and talks.
The event has evolved from attracting last year’s parenting and lifestyle audience to be much more about empowering female bloggers across all interest areas, celebrating all aspects of women and blogging.
I am attending this conference to get inspiration and learnings for the development of my blog, learn about future developments in the industry from a bloggers’ perspective and to get to know more fellow bloggers and bounce a few ideas. Here are the highlights:
Will you be at Cybher? As you would expect, tickets are sold out but do follow the event on hashtag #Cybher and I will be live tweeting and blogging about the event. If you are coming along, make sure you say hello!
Apr 29th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
in 2010 Tippex surprised us all with its interactive video which went viral with over 19.5 million views to date. It has recently released its second video called Hunter and bear’s 2012 birthday party.
This time the bear and the hunter are friends and as they sit down to celebrate their 2012 Birthday a giant metorite plummets towards them. The only way to stop the metorite from destroying the party is to help rewrite the future by using Tippex to change the year. Have fun…
What do you think about the second video? Did you prefer the first one? What do you think Tippex should do for its third video to continue with bringing its videos to the next level?
Mar 25th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
Via #Blogchat, a weekly online event that shares blogging tips and inspiration over Twitter, I came across this infographic about Google+ for business. This was produced by BlueGlass for @Chrisbrogan.
One of the best and most logical ways of understanding how to leverage social networks like Google+ in a business context, is becoming familiar with the channels on a personal level. Currently most business use of Google+ has been for search purposes or success has been as much about the story around using Google+ as contributing towards business objectives. Have you seen any interesting examples of businesses on Google+?
Mar 18th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
I find GlobalWebIndex’s trends reports interesting. Below is a summary of the seven trends, most of which are not surprising. I find local nuances and cultural influences on social media fascinating so from my perspective the most interesting trends to look out for include trends one and two. It’s the understanding of the local cultural behaviour and social media usage profile that lend insight to the development of these trends which will help us to better predict movements in social.
Mar 13th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
Polyvore, the five year old online fashion community has just reached 15 million unique monthly users and is the 6th largest source of original content for Pinterest. Polyvore is a website which empowers people to express their sense of style by allowing them to create collages of their favourite looks and inspirations. You can follow your favourite designers and people whose styles you like which then collates a personal ongoing fashion magazine designed by you.
Take a look at the video below where Polyvore co-founders Jess Lee and Pasha Sadri are interviewed by TechCrunch TV. Once again we see the power of collaboration as Polyvore talk about how part of their success has stemmed from collaborating with Pinterest. Two great examples of social media communities that have given rise to the consumer voice in fashion.
Do you use Polyvore or have a favourite online fashion community or app?
Mar 11th, 2012 by @SelenaChanLive
With the recent Facebook changes for brands behind us, copious conversations about the implications of the changes for brands and countless articles and videos absorbed, I’ve summed up one of the most interesting videos that I’ve stumbled across. A 30 minute breakout session by Paul Adams about what makes sticky content on Facebook.
Surprisingly we need to stop thinking about shareable content and think about talkable content. It’s the ability to understand human interaction on social media channels such as Facebook that will help brands to be able to join conversations in meaningful and sustainable ways. The video shares the highlights of some interesting research which I’ve summarised below for those short on time. To understand what makes talkable content we need to looks into why people talk, how to create conversation, who people talk to and what do they talk about.
The four main reasons why people talk
Therefore the opportunity lies in creating content that makes people’s lives easier, builds social bonds, allows people to help each other and crafts identity.
How to create conversations?
Therefore the focus lies in how thinking about how you might create content that encourages dialogue and light weight interactions?
Who do people talk to?
Generally speaking what this means is that people in each social circle are similar to the person in the middle, meaning that people in the social circles are similar to each other. We could then make the assumption that people will like similar content and this is how content spreads naturally and organically.
What do people talk about?
The opportunity is therefore looking at how to create content that helps people talk about personal experiences, other people, what is around us, feelings and not facts.
Key takeaways
You can watch other Videos of the fMC keynote and breakout sessions, or perhaps you have some ideas on understanding what makes sticky content?
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