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Split Personalities

All of us who are active online face, from time to time, digital overload.  As individuals, we might be active on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google + and a host of smaller or emerging social sites such as Pinterest.  It can be exhausting – remembering to check-in, write a review, etc.  Companies and brands face a similar situation which is magnified many times over.  The big difference is I only have to worry about one account per platform and I’m…well…me!  I don’t have to monitor anyone else posting on my behalf.  The issues of social media guidelines, who owns a brand online, and how an employee’s activity online reflects on the company for which they work are big issues.

All of these came to mind as I read a new study from The Altimeter Group the other day.  Let’s see what you think. Continue reading

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I Have A Life

OK, so maybe it’s not red carpets every night and maybe I don’t put on a tux or white dinner jacket each evening to dine. However, like most of you, I have a life. I have friends with whom I stay in touch beyond Facebook. I have business associates with whom I correspond beyond email. I sometimes need to express myself in more than 140 characters and sometimes people want to take what I have to say, give it some thought, and answer me back in a few sentences.  I have a family and occasionally we speak.  The funny thing is, it turns out I’m not the only person like this and the folks like me are of all ages.

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What Is It And Why Do I Care?

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A group of very smart web executives and I were talking about content and how to present it to increase engagement.  The discussion centered around defining how we should be thinking about user engagement with content – is it just page views, is it time on a page, is greater time on fewer pages just as good as a lot of quick views, etc.  I tried to simplify it down to the basic question I think is in the user’s mind:  what is this and why should I care about it.  Let me explain. Continue reading

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