Simon Mainwaring

We First provides consulting and training to help companies tell the story of their good work in ways that build their business

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September 4, 2012

Like it or not, you must own your social media reputation

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With each passing day political parties and citizens, business leaders and employees, and brands and consumers, have an increasing array of media outlets through which to share and access personal information. As such, it’s more important than ever to own and manage your reputation before another person or institution defines it for you. This is […]

With each passing day political parties and citizens, business leaders and employees, and brands and consumers, have an increasing array of media outlets through which to share and access personal information. As such, it’s more important than ever to own and manage your reputation before another person or institution defines it for you. This is …

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August 29, 2012

Top ten ways the smartest marketers become the most ‘Liked’ brands

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With so much understandable anxiety over budget allocation and concrete ROI, especially is you’re a small company, it’s valuable to study the best practices of those brands that have earned their way into the likability Hall of Fame. So here’s ten brands that are each among the most liked and a unique strategy they employ …

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August 27, 2012

How social media turns the smartest CMO’s into Chief Customer Advocates

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If there is one sure fire way to leverage social media data in the service of your company, it’s to engage that data to better serve your customers. This fact is not lost on CMO’s who, according to the survey by the CMO Club fund the number one use of social data by CMO’s is …

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August 22, 2012

The #1 oversight in social media community building

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There are certain mainstays of social media community-building – creating content that commands or arrests the viewer’s attention, engaging them around some action or contribution motivated by shared values, and finally, rewarding them in some way that earns the participant social capital or recognition. Yet, in most cases, that’s where it ends and where the …

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August 21, 2012

What a day in the life of twitter reveals about your brand

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Diffbot‘s new Page Classifier API was used to provide this revealing snapshot of a day in the life of Twitter. The tool identifies the type of content behind any web link, and in this case, the Page Classifier analyzed 750,000 links posted on Twitter to create this infographic that inspires several questions for your brand. 1. If …

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August 14, 2012

Live ‘n kickin: Social media makes claims on traditional media territory

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A subtle but powerful shift is underway as brands and platforms that have thrived, in part, through social media are now trading up into traditional media territory on the strengths of the eyeballs and engagement they have captured.  To illustrate I want to share three examples. 1. GOOGLE HANG-OUTS ON AIR: Google wants this new …

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