Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

OK, so you’ve identified your relevant social media channels and now have several  outposts within social media.   Your initiatives have proven successful at generating awareness, engaging in conversations and acquiring new relationships.  The next logical step becomes how to evolve and connect these various pieces of your social media puzzle so that the whole becomes [...]

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In four separate client conversations over the last couple of months I’ve heard nearly the exactly the same phrase – “We have several successful social media efforts, but we’re missing a ‘hub’ that ties them all together.”  Welcome to the strategic phase of social media marketing.
This lack of integrated strategy is largely a result [...]

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I started working on our Forrester Groundswell Award entry a while back and re-discovered a topic I had been thinking about a few months ago – “holistic” versus “siloed” approaches towards social media initiatives.
The Groundswell authors break down the opportunities within social media to mirror corporate structures, providing an easy way for people in research, [...]

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The International Academy of Visual Arts and the W3 Awards today awarded 4 awards to Affinitive:

Category – Best Viral Promotion, Games & Gaming Category (Silver W3): Ubisoft’s ‘1191AD: Brotherhood of Assassins’ Campaign for Assassin’s Creed
Category – Best Site, Social Networking Category (Silver W3): Hey! Nielsen for The Nielsen Company
Category – Best Site, Branding Category (Silver [...]

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It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Tremor, Proctor & Gamble’s word of mouth marketing unit but based on what Steve Knox had to say last week it might have been worth the wait.
A summary of his points:

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Mavens’ are flaky, focus on the ‘Connectors’
Successful WOM programs must have both advocacy [...]

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With consumer brands increasingly moving from monitoring conversations to executing word of mouth marketing programs there is a growing need for clarification of the various options available to a brand marketer when executing a WOMM initiative.
Most everyone we talk to understands the need and importance for word of mouth but since it’s still a relatively [...]

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