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Esteban Contreras from Samsung on why your customers use Twitter - and the 5 C's

Nick Johnson, (Jul 22, 2024)

Hi guys, We recorded the whole of the NYC Corporate Social Media Summit from last month, and it's available to buy from here. I thought you might find it useful to get a sample of what you can lo...

video interviews - how to create an employee social media strategy that doesn't ruin your reputation

Nick Johnson, (Jul 21, 2024)

Hi everyone,Today I thought I'd share some of the video interviews that Served Fresh Media conducted for me on site at the US Corporate Social Media Summit. I've picked three - there are fiftee...

making sense of the wealth of info at a social media director's fingertips

Nick Johnson, (Jul 15, 2024)

Continuing my approach of sharing the wealth, I've embedded below some slides from Stefan Heeke. Stefan is Director of Interactive Communications at Siemens - and spoke at the Corporate Social Medi...

"Social networking is a means to an end. You need to understand what that end is."

Nick Johnson, (Jul 9, 2024)

I've just been reading a slideshow that a Google staffer has put out recently. The basic premise is that Facebook does not accurately reflect 'real social networks'. When you 'friend' someone on Fa...

Loic LeMeur on the wrong terminology

Nick Johnson, (Jul 8, 2024)

Great video from Loic LeMeur on how the use of particular vocabulary is symptomatic of the wrong approach to social media. If you're talking about "impressions, impressions, impressions" and "camp...

Using Twitter in your company - advice from Samsung

Nick Johnson, (Jul 7, 2024)

Just back from holiday and thought I'd share some more media from the conference last month. First up, some slides from the wonderful Esteban Contreras, who is Social Media Manager from Samsung Ele...

comment and content from around the web on the Corporate Social Media Summit 2010

Nick Johnson, (Jun 18, 2024)

Hi everyone,I've just returned our inaugural Corporate Social Media Summit in the USA after an absolutely great couple of days. There was a fantastic community of social media practitioners in a...

stripped to the bone marketing results

Nick Johnson, (Jun 7, 2024)

LAST WEEK'S RESULTS 22% of our traffic from referring sites 34% direct traffic 11% search engines 33% ‘other’ Top 5 Traffic sources Direct traffic (22%) Google Ads (20%) Organic Searc...

"[There's] an inability to distinguish impact from ROI [in the corporate social media community]

Nick Johnson, (Jun 4, 2024)

Hi, As part of the run-up to the Corporate Social Media Summit, I've been conducting some interviews with speakers from the event. I recently had a chance to ask some questions of Don Barthomew, ...

4 weeks, 1 post - and the shattering of a Google Analytics mystery...

Nick Johnson, (May 28, 2024)

Hello again. Sorry about the delay. I've been busy, honest - running this and then preparing for this - which has rather taken on a life of it's own recently. We've got about 130 attendees so far, ...

An interview with yours truly (!)

Nick Johnson, (May 28, 2024)

Yesterday, Rohit Bhargava put up an interview with me on his blog. The interview focuses on what I've learnt from marketing the Corporate Social Media using social media channels. It refers to thi...

"Just because you think about your company 24/7 doesn’t mean everyone else does"

Nick Johnson, (May 26, 2024)

By way of an apology for my frankly inexcusable lack of posts, below is a short interview with Bill Tolany, Head of Integrated Media at Whole Foods Market. Bill is speaking with us in the run-u...

CHARTS: twitter/external eshot correlation, and lack of a twitter/new contacts correlation

Nick Johnson, (Apr 14, 2024)

Some charts, from the statistics I've been gathering over the last few weeks. [gallery link="file"] So, there are three charts above. The first chart shows 'everything'. It tracks my weekly we...

What seems to be a random drop in the power of social media marketing

Nick Johnson, (Apr 13, 2024)

It appears that I am being overcome by my workload - profound apologies for my lack of post last week. If we can all say that it was planned all along as part of my Easter break, I would be much ob...

has social media just become more useful than email marketing?

Nick Johnson, (Mar 31, 2024)

It started to look that way last week, so I would assume that you have been waiting with baited breath for this week's results. It represents far more of an 'acid test' for social media marketing ...

week two - more of the same?

Nick Johnson, (Mar 22, 2024)

...and here's me thinking I'd be able to post interesting little gobbets of observation throughout the week, and then do a nice summing up at the end. It hasn't quite panned out like that. Anyway,...

the results from week two are coming...

Nick Johnson, (Mar 19, 2024)

...but they'll be here on Monday. I want to take weekend traffic into account, as I've just tried something with LinkedIn.. I'll report back Monday.....

How worthwhile is social media marketing for me? - Wk1, The Results

Nick Johnson, (Mar 12, 2024)

I've just spent the last hour or so working to pull together marketing details and results for the Corporate Social Media Summit for this last week( ie period 08 March to 12 March, so a bit curtail...

The great social media experiment

Nick Johnson, (Mar 10, 2024)

Now for the big reveal. I've been trying to work out how to make sure that this blog will be useful for corporate comms/marketing professionals. On the train home from work a couple of days ago, ...

Our aims with the Corporate Social Media Summit

Nick Johnson, (Feb 18, 2024)

Hi there, I thought I should go over why we're putting together the Corporate Social Media Summit - and our aims for the event. Basically, I want to put together a place for big companies to talk...

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