Author Archives: Darika

Facebook Insights: how to use them?

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There are a plethora of paid and free Facebook tools out there dabbling in Facebook metrics; Hootsuite, Klout and Conversocial are getting in on the game but Facebook has made a significant investment in optimising their own Facebook Insights and they are really useful …

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Posted on December 5, 2011 by Darika
Posted in Advice, Tools, Resources, blog, blog-featured | Tagged clients, Facebook Insights, facebook page management | Leave a comment

Don’t ask your customers what they want, give them what they need

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Yesterday I got into a weird hyperactive Twitter discussion with Charlie Southwell, Andrew Davison and Sarah Fuller. We all were trying to make different points I think  but it was sparked by a comment from Andrew around research tweeted by Sarah. …

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Posted on November 23, 2011 by Darika
Posted in Opinion | Tagged research, TNS | Leave a comment

Free Social Media benchmarking reports

Do you work in eCommerce, Travel, Finance, MCommerce, or generally doing Social Media? Well we’ve found something for you… The clever people over at eDigitalResearch regularly release a host of benchmarking reports looking at these key areas in the UK with …

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Posted on November 21, 2011 by Darika
Posted in Advice, Tools, Resources | Tagged benchmarking, eCommerce, eDigitalResearch, finance, mcommerce, travel | Leave a comment

Social media monitoring tools and why use them

Struggling to justify a purchase of Social Media monitoring software? Wondering if your Google alerts are telling you everything you need to know? Our Head of Insight, Thane Ryland, spotted Radian 6′s 100 uses of Social Media monitoring uber-post which …

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Posted on October 31, 2011 by Darika
Posted in Advice, Tools, Resources, insights | Tagged insights, Radian 6, social media monitoring, social media monitoring tools | 4 Comments

3 laws of community management that will blow your mind

Social Media is changing and evolving all the time and I can certainly be accused of getting over excited and always looking for the new. But sometimes it’s the tried and tested laws of community that can give powerful insights right …

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Posted on October 27, 2011 by Darika
Posted in Advice, Tools, Resources, Online community | Tagged 90:9:1 principle, clients, cog's ladder, community management, dunbars number | Leave a comment