Last Week in Social Media
By David Alston
Monday, February 25, 2008 | Add a Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Social Media News
A review of the top items that we’ve pertained from listening and participating in the social media sphere.
Creating Social Media Content
Geoff Livingston broke down the social media content creation process in a simple way so that anyone from the ground up could have a quick overview of how they can get started on social media. [...]
Finding Brand Enthusiasts begins with listening
By David Alston
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | Add a Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Marketing, Social Media Monitoring
Today Doe Anderson announced that they will be using Radian6’s social media monitoring solution to help discover and create brand enthusiasts for their clients. Their process starts with research or listening and moves to the development of effective plans to convert ordinary customers into brand enthusiasts.
Doe Anderson’s Social Media Explorer, Jason Falls, states “By [...]
Launching a social media monitoring practice
By David Alston
Friday, February 15, 2008 | Add a Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Social Media Monitoring
Voce Communications’ launch of the addition of social media monitoring as part of their practice today is an excellent example of the use of social media itself. They issued their own version of a social media press release (SMPR) which included their definitions of social media monitoring and mining, a screencast series of videos [...]
IPG’s Bant Breen Discusses Social Media Monitoring with Chris Ramsey
By Marcel LeBrun
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Marketing, Social Media Monitoring
Bant Breen, President, Interpublic Futures Marketing Group and Director of Strategic Development and Innovation of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), one of the world’s leading organizations of advertising agencies and marketing services companies, recently interviewed Chris Ramsey of Radian6, to talk about Social Media Monitoring and the emerging interest in the social media space.
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Radian6 sponsors free download of Aberdeen report on social media monitoring & analysis
By David Alston
Monday, February 4, 2008 | 5 Comments
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Marketing, Social Media Monitoring
Radian6 has sponsored the Aberdeen Report: Social Media Monitoring and Analysis: Generating Consumer Insights from Online Conversation which is now available for download. The report, written by Jeff Zabin and Alex Jefferies, spells out a roadmap for those companies looking to adopt Best-in-Class practices around the use of social media monitoring and analysis. [...]
Distributed Influence Discussion
By Marcel LeBrun
Saturday, February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Social Media Monitoring
There is a very productive conversation underway (with lots of debate) about the measurement of distributed influence in Social Media. Jim Tobin of Ignite Social Media added to the discussion this week. My comment on his post is quoted below. If you are interested, the discussion was started by Jonny Bentwood who [...]
PRWeek – Expert Q&A on Social Media Monitoring
By David Alston
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | Add a Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Social Media Monitoring, Social Media News, Technology
This week I was interviewed on the best ways to measure social media and the different applications for both PR and advertising professionals.
PRWeek wanted to know more about how Radian6 makes social media monitoring a user-friendly experience. My answer to this question touched on the fact that users often start off trying to manually [...]
CTO Chris Newton recognized as one of New Brunswick’s Rising Stars
By David Alston
Friday, January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Social Media Monitoring, Technology
At the Rising Stars Gala & Awards Ceremony last night at the Delta Beauséjour in Moncton, New Brunswick Radian6’s CTO, Chris Newton, was selected as one of this year’s Rising Stars from this year’s list of IT professionals nominated by peers for their superlative work and contribution to the industry and their community.
Congrats Chris!
Jason Falls explores Radian6 and the Great White North
By David Alston
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 | Add a Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Marketing, Social Media Monitoring
We were honored to host Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer last week here in New Brunswick. Our paths first crossed in social media when we saw him tweet on Twitter about his search for a social media monitoring solution for a client of his at Doe Anderson. We reached out and the [...]
Meet Jason Falls at Atlantic Canada’s first Social Media Meetup
By David Alston
Friday, January 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Tags: Cirque du Soleil
Posted in: Uncategorized
Jason Falls is in our neck of the woods next week so we thought, why not have him speak at our region’s first Social Media Meetup. With the kind help of Lisa Rousseau of MeshEast the idea took shape and the meetup was born.
If you happen to be in the area we’d love to [...]

