By Ian, on April 27th, 2010 Word-of-mouth (WoM) has influenced all my mobile phone contracts, where I took my wife on Valentine’s day and the last jar of instant coffee I purchased. It has for you, too, probably. Maybe not those exact items, but you’ve been influenced by people telling you what they like. Continue reading Everybody’s Heard About the Word By Ian, on March 30th, 2010 Researchers from Psychster created social media marketing content in a variety of formats to see which worked best. They used the allrecipes.com and Facebook social networks, conducting surveys with users after they’d been exposed to the content. Continue reading The Trouble with Social Content By Ian, on March 1st, 2010 Twitter users come in two colours according to recent reports: over-sharing or silent. Last week, audience research company Nielsen released figures suggesting an enormous polarity between active and inactive members in the UK. The graph shows that 79% of time spent on the site comes from just 7% of its members:
Only Continue reading Lies, Damned Lies and Twitter Usage Statistics By Ian, on January 27th, 2010 New data from Nielsen confirms what you probably already know. Traffic to and time spent on social networking sites has boomed over the last two years. As the charts below show, people across the world are spending around five-and-a-half hours per month on social networking sites compared to just over two hours at the Continue reading Growth of Social Networks (or Not) By Ian, on January 22nd, 2010 Groundswell – the Forrester Research social media blog — has produced an update to its engagement ladder diagram:
The diagram was changed to add in users of Twitter and other ‘status-update’ applications, most notably Facebook. Author Josh Bernoff notes that this group has a different demographic make-up to others: Conversationalists intrigue me. They’re Continue reading Wonky Rungs By Ian, on January 14th, 2010
Late December and early January see the seasonal appearance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-in-trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the following year, by which time everyone’s forgotten. I’ve written a couple in the Continue reading Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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