The LugIron Software Blog

I’ve been travelling by plane this summer both with my family and as a lone business traveller. My experiences were different but uneventful both trips. And I mean uneventful in a good way. I’ve had to use the slide to exit a plane onto a tarmac in Dallas and let me tell you, you pick [...]

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Sometimes we stumble upon interesting engagement insights using the LugIron social media measurement tool, and we want to share those with you. This is the first post in a series we’ll run as we continue to code the heck out of our community engagement dashboard. This past week or so, we’ve been collecting data through the [...]

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Let’s face it. Behaviors online are pretty limited – you can click a link or two, view a page, write some text. It all translates into interaction. But interaction alone doesn’t increase sales, drive down costs, or improve your customer satisfaction ratings. Behaviors are exactly what we want to drive with web technology, though, as the [...]

Technorati Tags: comments, community, community analytics, Facebook, real life, social media, Social Media Metrics, web analytics

What’s a nearsighted dinosaur called? Ithinkhesaurus. It may be nearsighted to look at online, interactive campaigns through the lens of just web analytics. You might need more information, since web analytics do not tell the whole story. This week Google Analytics informed the world through its blog that they’re offering an opt-out capability – which means website visitors [...]

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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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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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How have you increased the quality of your followers (as opposed to quantity) on Twitter or your blog or other subscription-based technologies? The quality of followers matters, according to Web Worker Daily in Get Better Connected on Social Networks: “The quality of followers is key, whether you’re angling for a new job, a new project, or looking [...]

Technorati Tags: fans, followers, friends, network, social, social media, strategy, Twitter

Those three words, followers, fans, and friends, have deep and wide meanings in real life, but online sites using those terms for subscribers will not always see all the actions they’d expect. We’re all still people, offline or online, and businesses on Facebook want to know what you’re doing as a fan. Are you just [...]

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I’ve been intrigued by Jeremiah Owyang’s List of Corporate Social Media Strategists – a curated and categorized list based on a person’s LinkedIn Profiles and a previous list from 2008. He has separated it into strategists and community managers, an interesting distinction, but necessary since the jobs would be very different day-to-day. The job titles [...]

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