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Re: If you can’t say it in person…

Lucy Wills — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:28:15 -0000

Nothing can quite replace the pleasure of receiving something well conceived and thoughtful in the post. For me it's about knowing that a someone, not just a database, but a person, was thinking of me when they wrote it. p.s. Movember ROCKS - and good on you for going for it.

Re: An average day on Facebook

Kadin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:27:48 -0000

Excellent article!

Re: Washington Lottery’s rookie mistake

Janna Liliya — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:04:37 -0000

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Re: Is this the end of the road for QR codes?

Al Pavangkanan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:53:54 -0000

Ha, I had a minidisc player

Re: You Me Bum Bum Train and the Art of Exclusivity

Carrie Grafham — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:28:58 -0000

Silence has definitely worked for 'celebrity brands'. Kate Moss hates giving interviews and has enhanced her mystique because of it. Ditto Johnny Depp, Bob Dylan, David Bowie...

Re: The case for the apostrophe

Mike Rowe — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:29:07 -0000

What did happen to the three Rs? They seem to have gained an incorrect apostrophe ;)

Re: The case for the apostrophe

Molly Flatt — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:00:50 -0000

You know you're pressing my happy buttons with this one, Tom. Can I also point out that social media are plural. PLURAL. That means social media are useful, awesome, terrible etc. *Is* doesn't come into it.

Man, that felt good.

Re: The importance of culture

Lilian Mahoukou — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:08:39 -0000

Thanks Molly! This is the kind of questions being frequently asked over here.

Thinking about social business tweetup plans in Paris... will keep you up to date.

Re: The importance of culture

Molly Flatt — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:54:09 -0000

Thanks Lilian. That's a bit of a huge question to answer here! Obviously skills in collaboration and diplomacy are huge - and also a personal passion for and investment in the value of the approach. And a willingness to try, and possibly fail, and try again! A good book totally focused on this subject is Charlene Li's Open Leadership.

Re: The importance of culture

Lilian Mahoukou — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:24:15 -0000

Agreed! Plus, many would say that culture eats strategy at lunch...

At a superior stage, 'leadership visibility' and 'leadership sponsorship' are also vital points. How do you manage to get one or more senior execs on board?

To you, what's the best profile of a 'social business lead' and how could (s)he start building social readiness in a very command-and-control culture?

Re: X Factor: I’m sorry, Twitter told me to…

Bandro — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:59:12 -0000

Freaking awesome.

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Tom Messett — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:47:13 -0000

I just logged into G+ today to find the Nokia acct suspended as it was apparently fake! - After submitting a form with proof I was a Nokian they re-activated it with a little verified tick so they are getting tighter but stupidly they have no way for a brand to proactively got and speak to them to get their page verified, you have to wait to get arbitrarily shut down... Overall it is proving an OK platform, looking to put the G+ link into our blogs soon and will see how that goes.

Re: Our team expands in the U.S.

Lilian Mahoukou — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:47:42 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Ricky Cadden — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:06:10 -0000

I've just finished setting up RadioShack's page - it does indeed ask you to click that, but there's no proof - no email confirmation coming from a RadioShack.com email address, nothing.

There are more issues along the way - I also inadvertently setup our RadioShack account as a personal profile initially - the two are now both listed, and in fact when you search, the profile is listed first and you must hunt for the page. Confusing from a brand standpoint but also from a consumer standpoint.

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Andrew Gerrard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:44:16 -0000

Did you not have to check the box: "I agree to the Pages terms and I am authorised to create this page."? Even though this looks like a lame get-out clause for Google - the TOCs say that you are responsible for all the administration and any users who update the page - it's a requirement for you to confirm that you are at least "authorised" ("over the subject matter" - by whom and whatever that means?). Someone's going to get their fingers burnt with this one...

Re: Heads up to our global team

Cheap Kamagra — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:32:59 -0000

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

James Whatley — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:02:47 -0000

http://gplus.to/OfficialNokia

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Lilian Mahoukou — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:27:18 -0000

Another element... it is also interesting to get in touch with influentials and to facilitate any inbound streams to the corporate/brand "BIO" page, for those preferring to use the G+ channel.

For companies, it's possible to go for a reverse move, by sourcing/identifying people through this dedicated G+ people search engine:

http://www.findpeopleonplus.co...

Then, it'll be possible to explore each stream and go straight to their bio for engaging them...

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

James Whatley — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:12:58 -0000

Hey there Mr M, swift work with the Nokia page, good skills.
---I knew you'd be on it like a flash ;)

Would be interested to know what you make of this:

http://twitter.com/#!/Whatleyd...

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

tanya — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:09:51 -0000

Hi Tom,

Which Nokia page did you create? There are quite a few already!!

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Tom Messett — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:06:08 -0000

Agreed, I created a Nokia page quickly simply to avoid domain squatting and to make sure we had an official presence there.

Now I am going to play with it and experiment and see if it works...

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

Lilian Mahoukou — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:55:29 -0000

Google seems to invest a lot of time, energy and money on Google Plus. They already killed some of their 'less shiny' products (ie: google buzz, google wave, etc...) to get more focused on G+

This will give them the capacity to face Facebook competitive moves, to iterate and to bring some interesting innovations.

At the moment, and to avoid any cyber squatting issues, it'd tactically be important to create a presence there and to be on a listening mode.

People may be on G+ by preference, and it's a touchpoint to consider.

For the moment, no big differences between FB pages and G+ profiles...

Re: Google+ Pages have arrived

tanya — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:43:25 -0000

Good point! My initial thinking of Google+ is that it's great for instant sharing... but that's on a personal level... with regards to to a company... I'm not too sure yet... but I am more favourable towards Google+ for business pages than FB... I think because Google+ is more flexible with sharing news and having massive discussions... it's more open rather than 'contained' in FB... I guess...
Google to me is seen as an open forum, I think because it's stemmed from a search engine, a public place....

Am I making sense? or is this the result of Google+?!!!

Re: Research results: which type are you?

Lucy Wills — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:44:01 -0000

A very interesting post - and a useful reminder of how data from one niche can give inisghts that apply across the board in today's p2p shopping environment.

I do wonder if over time, the tracking will show that people fit into different or multiple categories for particular product groups, or shift from one group to another?

This post has also raised a question for me - are we marketing and designing for people with behaviors, for behaviors that people might identify with or buy into, or both?

Re: Please share, but only what we tell you to

Mike42 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:26:23 -0000

Simple: Ask for the manger, and challenge him: Let me send the pic, if the answer is positive I'll buy, if not it goes back on the rack? What has he got to loose but a sale?

If he refuses, ask him what his shareholders would think of a policy that lost them a sale? A thousand sales? A million sales?