Persuasive Picks for the week of 06/06/11

By the numbers: Social media’s slice of the marketing pie Get up to speed on how companies with small, medium and large social marketing budgets are spending their money via these highlights of several recent Hubspot, Nielsen and Altimeter reports compiled by Dan Taylor – in this post on TheNextWeb.com. 4 Ways Video Can Help Your [...]

If Your Social Content Isn’t Brand-Relevant, It’s Just Noise

In the PR industry, we’re paid to make people take notice. Notice of products, services, people, companies. Notice of articles, comments, updates, events. And it’s not always easy – it’s a crowded world out there and “breaking through the noise” is a big challenge. Social media has opened up the options for promotion – we’re [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 02/28/11

Understanding the Social Media ROI CycleThe 60 Second Marketer‘s Jamie Turner shares some excellent insight into Social Media ROI and the various phases of a social campaign via this guest post on Mashable. Lessons From a Corporate Insider: Dream Big, but Think SmallLeading the charge to convince corporate communications of the benefits of moving into the the social [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 01/10/11

How Quora could get interesting Quora might be the shiny new social tool of the month, but the jury is still out as to whether there’s value contained within or even if the site will last. Chris Brogan provides his view via this post that continues on with a great comment thread from the community. [...]