"Social Media"

Social media campaigns are big business. In fact, social research company Hubspot estimates that some US$3.08-billion was spent just on advertising on social networking sites in 2011.

Via Susan Bainbridge

Na semana em que estão todos falando das mudanças na Timeline das Fan Pages do Facebook, compartilho com vocês esse artigo selecionado pela Janl Gordon.

 

Segundo ela, a nova timeline do Facebook proporciona para as marcas uma forma de inserir os negócios nas mídias sociais, muito mais do que apenas adicionar mídias sociais aos negócios.

 

Alguns benefícios:

 

Novo formato que incorporou o design thinking , trazendo grande força ao visual;

 

A possibilidade da customização das páginas  as deixa mais atraentes, relevantes e diferenciadas para os seus clientes e consumidores;

 

A possibilidade de visualização dos seus próprios posts sobre a marca, lado a lado  com os de seus públicos,  sem a confusão de páginas de mensagens de estranhos e pessoas fora do seu círculo de influência, ajuda muito no impacto.

 

Eu ainda estou experimentando a nova timelline nas minhas Fan Pages da Clear educação, Portal Voluntarios Online e Social Good Brasil, mas tendo a achar que essas modificações, quando bem utilizadas, irão incrementar as estratégias das marcas  e causas nesse poderoso canal.

 

Abaixo o post da Janl Gordon em Inglês e as fontes que ela utlizou.

 

 

This piece is from AllFacebook - I selected this article because I thought it was worthy of your attention. I personally am getting better results since I changed my page to the new timeline and have made incredible progress building brand awareness and gaining support from my colleagues.

 

Here are some of the highlights:

 

Facebook's new timeline now gives brands a way to bring their business to social media, rather than just adding social media to their businesses

 

Here are some of the benefits:

 

**New format that incorporates design thinking

visualization is now the driving force behind social media, Pinterest has risen to popularity because it lets people express their lives visually

 

**the abillity for brands to customize their pages to fit their message and most important

 

**the ability for brands to make their pages personalized and relevant to consumers

 

**the timeline page reflects and showcases the brand, helping to drive differentiation

 

**Facebook timeline allows you to see brand posts side-by-side with posts from your friends about the brand, without the clutter of pages of posts from strangers & people outside your circle of influence

 

Selected by Jan Gordon covering "Content Marketing, Social Media and Beyond"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/Af88Pb]

Via janlgordon, Fernanda Bornhausen Sá

"In its Policy Priorities report, Can Social Media and School Policies be “Friends,” ASCD provides a state-of-the union on social media use in schools. How administrators and educators deal with federal regulations, defining what’s legal, parsing out school responsibilities and weighing them against the benefits of using social media to engage and communicate with students are all addressed in this useful guide."

Via EDTC@UTB, k3hamilton, Jack Patterson

A new report ranks the social media performance of the world’s top 50 most valuable brands, and it seems that Google fared pretty well.

 

Google was the clear leader overall, with Disney, Apple, Starbucks and BlackBerry next in the ladder. The bottom five social performers from the top 50 most valuable brands were Marlboro, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and China Mobile.

 

The study was carried out by social media consultancy Sociagility, applying its social media performance measurement methodology, which was drawn equally from established independent studies by Millward Brown and Interbrand.

Via Matmi

This post was written by Melonie Gallegos for iMediaconnection

 

In this piece, there are 8 tips to help marketers can get in on the social curation boom in a meaningful way - that means Pinterest and beyond!

 

Here's an excerpt:

 

"Curation is a long-standing tradition of collecting, saving & organizing objects. Today it takes on a different meaning. Organizataions have evolved from collecting artifacts to digital curation of media and content"

 

When human behavior shifts and it certainly has, (more about that in the article), brands are quick to follow suit.

 

Here are some highlights:

 

There are a lot of websites offfering curation-type services

 

To get a clear sense of how a brand might leverage curation in this article, they have broken them down into categories.

 

**social bookmarking and news

 

**sharing

 

**Aggregation and syndication networks

 

**There are 8 ways your brand can get in on the action

 

Here are a few that caught my attention:

 

Become a curator creator

 

**Create your own Pinterest board and it's more than just slapping images, it takes thought, strategy, being part of the community and continually showing up

 

**appreciating other people's content and having two-way conversations

 

Create an Interest-based content strategy

 

**Focus on the interests of your audience, not your products and services!

 

**Allign their real-life interests with your brand position

 

Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Pinterest Watch"

 

Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/IXNQQB]

Via janlgordon, Jekaterina Cernobrovaja