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New Media and Technologies

6 Considerations for DIY social monitoring

by Peter McMahon July 3, 2010
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I recently made the observation that consumers increasingly expect the brands that they interact with to answer back within the social media context. More and more, we find evidence of growing frustration and a new kind of social consumer expectation. I recently posted this to our company website. Whilst its not the sort of content [...]

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Social Media Survey – April 2010

by Peter McMahon April 2, 2010
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Those involved in social media – myself included – naturally view it as being of major significance. However, viewing it that way doesnt necessarily make it so. And in some quarters there is tacit scepticism surrounding the extent of that significance.
So I thought it worthwhile to throw out some questions (see below) and [...]

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Social media monitoring and fear of the dark

by Peter McMahon March 22, 2010
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Fear of the unknown seems to be a handy leverage point for many companies in the social brand monitoring space.
Ive been doing quite a bit of due diligence on various social media brand monitoring solutions of late. As a result, I recently posted an article on my corporate blog www.affinitidigital.com.au regarding what seems to [...]

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What messages does your digital presence really send about your brand?

by Peter McMahon January 4, 2010
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Recently I stumbled upon Seth Godin’s typically erudite definition of brand value. According to Seth…”a brand’s value is merely the sum total of how much extra people will pay, or how often they choose, the expectations, memories, stories and relationships of one brand over the alternatives.” Hmmm.
It struck me that expectation and relationship are particularly [...]

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Ecosia – searching to save our planet

by Peter McMahon December 9, 2009
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Ecosia, ecosia.org a new search engine which claims to save 2 square metres of rainforest with each web search officially launched a few days ago. According to the progressive display on the homepage, searches to date had notionally saved 668,000 square metres of rainforest.
According to the WWF, “On average internet users can protect about 2000 [...]

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