Ok, right as I had promised myself (and my very few readers) that I would stop doing self-promotional scrapbook-like blog posts, I stumbled upon this podcast where Jay Baer and Scott Stratten (both top 5 social media influencers according to various rankings) start talking about Maersk Line, social media and… me. You can listen to …
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On Friday 8 June, TradeWinds – one of the leading trade publications – told the story about Maersk Line in social media. The week before, they called me up couple of times, a bit surprised by the fact that Maersk Line has started to engage through social media to the extent that we have. You …
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(This blog post was originally published on Maersk Line’s intranet) By Jonathan Wichmann, Head of Social Media, Maersk Line People just can’t help themselves. The crowds are cheering. The media is telling the story (even the shipping press). Experts are using it as a best practice case. It’s even in the Mærsk Post. In short, everyone …
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This is an oldie by now: A couple of months ago I was interviewed by Jay Baer and Eric Boggs for an episode of Convince & Convert‘s Social Pros podcasts, a series where they basically talk to frontline social media people to get a hands-on perspective of the social media world. You can listen to the …
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Social media managers today can be divided into two groups (roughly speaking, of course): 1. Those who stick to hard metrics and let data determine their decisions. 2. Those who trust their intuition and just go ahead and post what they feel is right. So what group do you belong to? Well, you should belong …
When embarking on social media most companies ask themselves: “What do we get out of this? What’s the ROI? And how do we measure it?” While this kind of thinking seems reasonable, and quite logical too, I believe it also poses a big problem for most companies, not least B2B companies where an actual conversion …
Continue reading ““Social creativity” vs. ROI: Why hard metrics don’t matter in social media”
From the early topic-based Internet to the egocentric digital network connecting people rather than homepages. In a few words, that’s the development we’ve witnessed the past 15-20 years. But what’s next? And what if we look ten years ahead? This can only be a game of qualified guessing. It’s a cliché… but we never know …