Digital Immersion Day : Social : 'Does Social Sell?'
Make sure you have your say / ask questions using #doessocialsell on October 6th!
- Download the presentations here.
- Check out the Animoto video! Great way of sharing photos!
Massive thank you to all speakers, attendees and Mindshare folk who made today possible! Special shout out to Craig Stead who a) turned one year older today and b) took the tweet seat for no less than 7 hours!
- Techlightenment are our final speaker of the day, showing us how their Social Attribution System can track what a user does after they interact with your post on Facebook. They also recently launched the Guardian's new Facebook app which utilises the new Timeline features
15% of population now ‘social shoppers’ - Retail Gazette
By Gemma Taylor 12:38PM - Wed 14th September 2011 A new breed of consumers are focusing on purchasing items via social media networks in a breakaway from traditional shopping, according to research released today. Information services company Experian found that 15 per cent of the population use social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook to find promotions, deals and to garner friends' opinions on products.
Guardian launches Facebook appWarner Bros to rent movies on Facebook Studio offers Facebook users the chance to rent films through the social network site, starting with The Dark Knight New app will allow social network's 750 million users to read guardian.co.uk articles without leaving social network The Guardian has launched a new Facebook app, becoming one of the first newspapers to launch a product alongside the social networking giant.Our blogger panel tell us that crisis management plans are just as valuable/necessary when working with blog partners as they are when working across all social channels
- Some interesting new designs etc coming from Google...
- Our exciting blogger panel are all in agreement that the term 'blogger' is ageing and somewhat relevant in today's understanding of the social web. Writer/Website owner/Entrepreneur are understandably preferred terms and would argue are more valuable descriptions
- Google+ Brand pages will be launched before the end of 2011
- Google+ TourThe Google+ project makes sharing online more like sharing in real life. Take the interactive tour for a quick look at five of the first key features.
Mindshare - The Global Media Network - Launch of Google+
Last week Google launched its long awaited answer to Facebook. Google+ is a new social network platform that it believes will make sharing and connecting easier for consumers. Google's view is that "online sharing is awkward" due to the virtual worlds inability to emulate the real world's social norms, particularly our ability to intuitively manage privacy and sharing.- If you need Google+ buttons/logos for your sites go here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/
- We all know and love it, but great to revisit - MSN Advertising talk about the Bing/Jay Z campaign as a case study for using social to create huge WOM & positive brand affinity. Jay Z's Facebook followers increased by 1million!
