By Lauren Vargas
Monday, November 30, 2009 | Add a Comment
Tags: conversational listening, engage online, Listening, social brand, social media engagement, social media goals
Posted in: Listening, Social Media
This past month, we have discussed how to get started in social media because the conversations about your organization, brand, industry, and competitors is happening with or without you. It all comes down to the choice of participation. But when you choose to engage, how are you enabling the conversation? How are your conversations being perceived? [...]
By EleanorAustin
Friday, November 27, 2009 | 12 Comments
Tags: Community, Mullen, Podcasts, radian6, Twebinar
Posted in: Community, Social Media, Twebinar, Web Events
Date: Thursday, December 10th Time: 2pm EST Do we really need to Make a Case for Social Media? With … • 325 million on Facebook • 100 million on MySpace • 40 million on Twitter • 100 million daily views on YouTube • 50 million people blogging Edward Boches says social media changes everything except [...]
By EleanorAustin
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | Add a Comment
Tags: Community, radian6, Social Media
Posted in: Community, Social Media
Radian6 will be a great destination in December for learning and illuminating the path through social media. December 1st will see fresh new content in the Engaged Brand section of our site including e-books, articles and video. Our December theme is “Making a Case for Social Media” and usually the first place you go to [...]
By Amber Naslund
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | 27 Comments
Tags: conversational listening, engage online, relevant conversations, social media engagement, social media management, social media overload, social media strategy
Posted in: Listening, Marketing, Social Media
One of the most instant and powerful reactions to social media is information overload. So many sites! So many tools! Where on earth do we start, and do we have to do them all?!? First things first: absolutely not. There. Do you feel a little better? Catch your breath, and walk with me through a [...]
By Gwen McIntyre
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 40 Comments
Tags: engagement, Listening, Molson Coors, radian6, Twebinar
Posted in: Community, Social Media, Twebinar, Web Events
Sometimes one of the best ways to Make a Case for Social Media is to see what others have done and to learn from their experience. Please join us at our Twebinar on Thursday, December 17th at 2pm EST as we talk with folks from Molson Coors where social media has been part of the [...]
By EleanorAustin
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tags: event, Social Good, Tweetsgiving
Posted in: Social Good
Between now and Thursday, even before sitting down to a much anticipated and abundantly satisfying Thanksgiving dinner, we are all invited to use our favorite social media tool to tweet, blog, post a picture or video, to express our thanks and gratitude. It’s part of a 48-hour worldwide campaign called “Tweetsgiving 2009”. The idea is [...]
By Lauren Vargas
Monday, November 23, 2009 | Add a Comment
Tags: change management, social media strategy, social media success
Posted in: Social Media
“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” –R. D. Laing Are you one of those people that would wait until the night before an exam to study or putter around until hours before the post was scheduled to be published [...]
By AdamKmiec
Friday, November 20, 2009 | Add a Comment
Tags: social brand, social media strategy
Posted in: Guest Blogger
By now those who know me are tiring of my constant cry, “Real Estate Is King.” I’ve been telling anyone who’d listen for the past year and a half that your brands need to be owning property all over the monopoly board. Just owning Boardwalk isn’t going to cut it. What does that mean? Since [...]
By Gwen McIntyre
Friday, November 20, 2009 | 8 Comments
Tags: Community, conversational listening, how to start in social media, Social Media, Webinar
Posted in: Listening, Podcasts, Social Media, Webinar
Thanks to everyone who joined our Webinar today on Getting a Foothold in Social Media. Lauren made an in-depth presentation on the 7 Steps to Getting Started in Social Media. Get Educated. Listen. Find Your Personality. Define Success. Participate. Measure, Measure, Measure. Don’t be Afraid to Fail. But don’t worry if you missed out. We’ve [...]
By David Alston
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 109 Comments
Tags: conversational listening, engage online, social media community, Social Media Monitoring, social media skills
Posted in: Community, Listening, Social Media Monitoring
You know that when it comes to embracing social media within organizations we often see the person leading the charge literally tackling the challenge with the skills of a social media superhero. And like most superheros they don’t think anything of the special powers they have activated in themselves and those around them. They remain [...]
