Interview: Jon Bird from American Airlines on Social Customer Engagement

Jon Bird, has the curious title of "Creative Manager, Social Media" at American Airlines, yet when you hear him discussing how @americanair engages with the 250,000 customers that the airline flies every day, across multiple social media touch-points, managing over ...
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How to Integrate Social Media with Email Marketing

It's easy to polarise the debate around email and social media. Is email, with it's interruptive and sometimes spammy ways, past it's sell by date? Alternatively, is social media largely fluff and hot air, without measurable outcomes or ROI? Evidently, neither is the...
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Agorapulse: Facebook Management with Apps and ROI Measurement

You might not have heard of Agorapulse. It'sĀ one of a new breed of social media management tools that, rather than catering for multiple networks, focuses 100% on Facebook. It's genial founder, Emeric Ernoult, says it's designed to be useful, easy-to-use and good v...
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All You Need To Know About Social Media – In One Picture

I spotted this photo in an article by Forbes about Google, but I think it stands pretty well on it's own. Seems to me Google's strategy for world domination by Google+ might actually be achieved - if they continue to grow and end up employing all of us....
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Analysis: Top Social Media Trends for Customer Services in 2012

Kate Leggett from Forrester published a blog post this week highlighting her Top Trends for Customer Services in 2012. There are the usual predictions for more use of BPM (Business Process Management) for streamlining processes and SaaS and cloud solutions for managing ...
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