Social

Infographics are dead! Long live video infographics!

13th February 2015

Infographics are everywhere. And rightly so! As they emerged a few years or so ago, PR folks and marketers took advantage of the simplicity of displaying complex data in a way that told a more compelling story than just a load of numbers, percentages and words. And they didn’t need to be design experts. They…

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NHS and Social Media – Is it all down to the strategy?

10th May 2014

For the last couple of weeks both myself and Ash have been heavily involved in debates regarding the NHS and Social Media. We first got involved because the people were asking for solutions and we wanted to discuss that with them. The NHS is a mine field of bureaucracy and levels of management. The NHS…

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Paid Followers and Fans – What is the point? (I’ll give you a clue there isn’t any)

6th May 2014

I was discussing what we do with a peer the other day as we drove to a networking meeting together . She is a huge advocate of what we do and had some advice for me. She told me to stop selling social media, “You guys are growing people’s businesses, using social media. You aren’t…

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Drive-Thru

Social, “Do you want Web with that?”

26th March 2014

Over the past few weeks I have been spending a lot of time conducting a series of Social Training sessions. One of the things that has really surprised me throughout these sessions, is peoples understanding of what Social is for. We can break Social Media useage into three distinct camps. First there is the private…

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Connect Offline And Social With New Technology

4th March 2014

A lot has been written about justifying your social media efforts, with a lot of questions being posed such as: Does social really provide return on investment? How can you relate social to your business offline? How can you leverage your social presence in the best way? These questions are often debated, however there is…

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Why Aren't Fans Responding On Facebook? Vaccoda Design

6 Reasons Your Fans Aren’t Responding to Your Facebook Posts

12th February 2014

The first sign that things were changing on Facebook appeared a few weeks ago. There was a significant drop in reach for almost all of our clients. Reach is the metric provided in Facebook analytics that is supposed to show how much exposure a post receives. The drop happened on the same day immediately following…

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Social Media Expectations for 2014 #3

24th January 2014

Prior to 2014 kicking in I highlighted on my blog that I had 4 expectations for social media in the new year & that I would delve a little further into each of them throughout January. You can read the first 2 posts here & here & this is the third, all about Google+. My…

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Impact

IMPACT, What We Are Not Measuring in Social

21st January 2014

The buzzword on everyones lips these days seems to be ‘Social’. No matter where we go or who we talk to, we are encouraged to be ‘Social’ and if we’re not being ‘Social’ then we are an outsider, to be scorned and taunted, a little like being back at school! Social is great and to…

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