How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community,  on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? How about a bitchy tweet on Twitter? Fight with them? Ignore them? Promise to do better? Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative criticism in social networks, but assessing the situation and the potential positive vs negative outcomes of responses is a skill that comes from experience. PS:  Your marketing intern may not have that skill!

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If flash mobbing was originally a group of strangers from the internet/Facebook meeting in the real world, doing a flash freeze at a set time and then walking off, what is agency created, arts organisation choreagraphed and danced, performance installations with professional filming and promotion to flog products?

 

Facebook credits and liquidity program – integrating real world currencies, gift cards and virtual economies. What will happen now Facebook is 500,000 members strong? The currency of the internet?

 

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 systems from a thing of work to a thing of play. Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. And don’t be surprised if Facebook comes up with some kind of Facebook Credits/Work Game scorecard integration. If you are new to these concepts you might like Verified Accounts and Leadership Badges or, more likely, The Role of Leaderboards in Online Communities. Yesterday I attended the Sharepoint geekfest at The Hilton Sydney. I plonked myself down in the Continue Reading…

 

Ever wondered which Australian companies, icons, brands have the most fans on Facebook?  Here’s a list of fan Pages for Australian companies, in order of most fans. Please don’t confuse volume with being “good” at social media. Alriighty? Nothing to see here, move along, this is for my social media classes. I use this list to teach classes on social media. We go through some of the pages and evaluate how well they are doing. We also look at the pages that aggregate all their products and brands on multiple tabs on one page versus individual pages for each brand. Continue Reading…

 

Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. I’ve done a few press (radio, print) interviews this week re: Telstra so I thought I should have another look at how Enterprise, Government, Corporates, Not for Profits  are handling the fact that their staff are members of social networks too. I once had to step in to calm down a forum that was off the charts with negativity and general unpleasant comments. To be even heard, I started Continue Reading…

 

Presentation at PANPA (part) and WebDirections 2008 (full). This article is about the various social media monetization strategies and the powerpoint presentation (embedded) shows some case studies and examples, including social network size, the revenue streams, valuations and profits. Click for full size of Revenues for Social Networks diagram. REVENUE SOURCE: The X Axis (the horizontal one) is whether the money comes to you (you are the social network host or provider) from the members in the community or from external clients such as advertisers or sponsorship from companies. REVENUE FLOW: The Y Axis (vertical one) asks if the money Continue Reading…

 

Twitter is The Human Narrative in real time. And yes the Capitalisation is important. Twitter is not just a marketing tool, nor a place to get cool links to awesome videos and blog posts. It’s not even simply a place to organise a bbq or be introduced to a potential client. It’s primary purpose is to tell the Human Story, in 140 character paragraphs Surprises abound on Twitter. When @johnt tweets (updates) that they are on a train that has been involved in an accident, you don’t think “how do I market this”, or even “how do I become engaged” Continue Reading…

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