Looking at what sites are hot, what sites are not and what metrics are worthy of attention, Dell’s panel of experts offer some fascinating insights.
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Looking at what sites are hot, what sites are not and what metrics are worthy of attention, Dell’s panel of experts offer some fascinating insights.
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Social media ROI is more than just saying, “We grew 1,000 fans this month”; it’s saying why it is important that we grew 1,000 fans, and what the business outcome is of such growth.
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by Lee Hopkins on September 14, 2012 · 0 comments
My new report from Ark Group: Measuring the Impact and ROI of Social Media – By Lee Hopkins and Anne Bartlett-Bragg is out. Pre-publication price $275 plus gst ($15 postage and handling) – save over a $100. Here’s the Order Form [pdf] and here’s a summary [pdf]. Packed with practical tips and real-world insights, this [...]
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For many years there was a long-running debate amongst we commentators which ran along the lines of, “Should we even be strategising and measuring social media?” The argument went something like this: Since social media is (or should be) a pervasive element within organisations, then measuring it as if it were a mere marketing tool [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on April 23, 2012 · 1 comment
I recently signed another report/book contract with Ark Group Publishing, this time to write on Social Media ROI.
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by Lee Hopkins on August 31, 2011 · 0 comments
WE’RE ON THE cusp of a major shift in business transformation, the interest in companies wanting to adopt social business is on the rise. Businesses are using social networking concepts to transform their business into a ‘social business’. According to IBM’s 2010 CEO Study, 57% of companies who have invested in social business tools have [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on June 28, 2011 · 0 comments
HURRY, TIME is running out. The workshop is next Friday, the 8th July. In conjunction with the LGMA (Local Government Managers Australia) I’m running a one-day workshop on social media for local governments and councils. Sub-titled ‘Conversing with your communities for fun and profit’, this workshop recognises that social media has become the preferred communication [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on June 24, 2011 · 0 comments
It’s a road map to understanding the changing dynamics that introducing social media brings to an organisation and what YOU can do about it.
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by Lee Hopkins on June 14, 2011 · 0 comments
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CHIEFEXECUTIVE.NET have published a great read on why social software often fails to excite the C-suite and what can be done to get their support and encouragement of social initiatives within and throughout the organisation
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Tactical Transparency by Shel Holtz and John Havens.
A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)

Qualitative Communication Research Methods by Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor.
Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders

The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
Practical SEO Copywriting: a ‘must get’ book. My mate Glenn Murray has written a bottler of a new book on search engines and copywriting.
In a cunning twist of bizarre nomenclature, he’s titled it Practical SEO Copywriting. The cheeky little fox! It’s a DIY guide to writing online copy for both human readers AND for that 400kg gorilla we lovingly call ‘Google’.
The danger, Glenn quite rightly …err …writes is that focusing too much attention on all of the supposed SEO ‘tricks of the trade’ will make your copy all but unreadable by the human brain. You know, all that stuff bandied about by the so-called SEO (search engine optimisation) experts: keyword frequency, exact string versus individual words scattered across the page, page length, alt tags, header tags, and so on.
Not that this stuff isn’t important – it all is, and more besides – but Glenn argues persuasively that by far more important is the ability to write copy that people will actually want to read – and link to!