Social media is no longer new, but it’s still a turbulent space. Just a couple years ago MySpace was on top of the world, only to be ousted unceremoniously by crowds flocking to Facebook. Twitter crept onto the scene and then exploded with growth in 2009, putting itself on every marketer’s radar. New trends are developing in the social location-based area, and that’s not counting the seemingly constant mergers, acquisitions, startups and failures.
Social Marketing
Twitter users 3X more likely to lmpact Brands Online.
A new study released by ExactTarget finds consumers active on Twitter are three times more likely to impact a brand’s online reputation through syndicated Tweets, blog posts, articles and product reviews than the average consumer.
The “Spanglish” of Social Media: The Importance of Relevant Communication.
The importance of relevancy in communication cannot be understated. Identifying the needs and interests of your target audience is an important first step in driving a strategic communications plan. When seeking to engage Hispanic audiences, selecting the appropriate language and tone for your message can make all the difference in achieving success. This is especially true in the world of social media. Additionally, communicators must remember that content is king and the creation of compelling content will help increase interaction with your message.
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Bloguera Survey Results.
Latinos in Social Media (LATISM), the first and largest non-profit organization to engage, organize, train and promote Latinos and Latinas in the social media arena, has released the results to the first study ever to take a look at Latina bloggers both from a demographic and a cultural standpoint. Given the growth of the Hispanic market, these Latinas are the vanguard of an emerging consumer segment that is the most attractive target for companies right now.
Carried out by LATISM, and conducted through the leading online research tool Survey Monkey, “The LATISM Bloguera Survey” questioned 939 respondents in the United States and Latin America.
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Steady gains in Blogging by Marketers.
The personal blogosphere, while it still boasts million of online journals and participants, has largely stalled in recent years. Consumer use of social media has moved more toward social networking and microblogging, which seem to have eroded the perceived usefulness of full-fledged blogs. But in the corporate world, a different picture emerges.
What makes Social Media Trustworthy?
One thing that makes social media marketing powerful is consumers’ trust in “people like them”—their friends, family and other online peers. Marketers want to tap into that trust through the power of earned media or by engaging in a conversation with consumers, but where social conversations take place has an effect on their perceived trustworthiness as well as who is taking part in them.
What Nonprofits can teach Brands about Social.
Corporate marketers have come a long way in their adoption of social tools and sites in the past few years, but they still have much to learn. One less obvious source of social media marketing experience is nonprofits.
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Latina Blogger presence spicing up BlogHer Conference 2010.
The recent explosion of Latina bloggers on the web has sparked a buzz of excitement throughout cyberspace. From bilingual mommy bloggers to feisty fashionistas, these lovely Latinas are expressing their views and opinions to a wide array of subscribers, some Spanish-speaking and some not. The growing power of Latina bloggers or “Blogueras” is now a force to be reckoned with in cyberspace.
Heavy Twitter Users bring Social Activity to New Heights.
eMarketer estimates there are 26 million monthly users of Twitter in 2010. That makes users of the microblogging service a relatively small minority of internet users, at 14.6%, and daily users are naturally even fewer in number. But their voice is disproportionately loud.
What Americans Do Online: Social Media & Games Dominate Activity.
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company. The research revealed that Americans spend a third their online time (36 percent) communicating and networking across social networks, blogs, personal email and instant messaging.
Twitter and the Consumer-Marketer Dynamic.
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Social Networking sites reach a higher % of Women than Men.
comScore, Inc. released a global report on women’s online usage titled, Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet, which provides an in-depth analysis of the female Internet user, highlighting key trends by Internet activity, worldwide region and digital channel. Among its results, the report found that social networking sites reach a higher percentage of women than men globally, with 75.8 percent of all women online visiting a social networking site in May 2010 versus 69.7 percent of men.
