Social media marketing without the buzz

I’ve been talking on this blog about how important it is to look at social media from an overall perspective without focussing too much on (and getting lost in) the media and tactics.

Well, here is another presentation, this time from the people at Ogilvy PR Asia Pacific, that says it all.

It was posted 4 days ago and is called ‘social media basics for executives’ but, for me, it’s social media marketing without the buzz, the fuzz and the hype.

One to go through if you get lost in ‘social media expert’ land again.

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Modelling user interactions in online social networks

I found an interesting presentation about modelling user interactions in online social networks. It was posted four days ago by a collaborator of the Seoul National University and presented at the Asian workshop of social web and interoperability in December.

The presentation looks at the definition of online friends and the interaction between (social) users.

The authors divide the social networks according to four criteria and axes: functional (like LinkedIn), user profile focused, entertaining and interest focused.

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