Posts Tagged ‘ROI’

Measurement’s Two Camps

Posted in General, Social Media Metrics on March 5th, 2010 by Anne Gentle – View Comments
Summer camps, ah the nostalgia. Oh, the names! I’m finding two camps when it comes to measuring Return On Investment for social media. I’ll call one side Camp Mustbecounted and the other side Camp Yacantbuyluv. Measuring everything is a cultural norm in some organizations. Apparently Google even puts its designs to the test constantly, asking for [...]

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Data Versus Goliath

Posted in General, User Engagement on March 2nd, 2010 by Anne Gentle – View Comments
You’ve heard of A/B split testing, where you take two messages and try them for reactions and actions from two small groups. The “winner” is the one that gets the best reaction and conversion from prospect to customer. When it comes to ads, web designs, and even text color, everyone has an opinion from the guy [...]

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Calling All Community Managers, Come In Community Managers

Posted in General, User Communities on January 13th, 2010 by Anne Gentle – View Comments
Here at LugIron, besides working on these freshly baked updates, we’re working on a book with case studies for successful enterprise communities. It’s a focused study of communities for specific purposes, similar to my book about using the social web for documentation. Our goal is to interview community managers in the enterprise, especially those who [...]

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