This convinces social media skeptics

December 21st, 2009 Lois Kelly Posted in Activating change, Cool tools, Research, Social media strategy 2 Comments »

Need help convincing your boss that social media is a major phenomenon deserving budgets, approval and buy-in? Show him or her this live data counter developed by Gary Hayes that tracks  things like number of new blogs posts, members added to Facebook, videos watched on YouTube, downloaded iPhone apps — EVERY SECOND.

Here’s a visual of just five minutes of data. The live feed is much more compelling.

I recommended that a client use it to open her presentation to  the executive members of one of the biggest companies in the world. It got a big “wow” and opened minds to the need to  do business differently.

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Google Sidewiki: 5 things businesses should do

September 29th, 2009 admin Posted in Activating change, Cool tools, Marketing trends, Social media strategy 2 Comments »

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Responses to Marketing News Radio questions

January 30th, 2009 Lois Kelly Posted in Conversational Marketing, Cool tools, Social media strategy 4 Comments »

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Insights from word clouds

January 29th, 2009 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools, Musings No Comments »

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Mind mapping helps us see differently

September 6th, 2008 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools, Innovation, Musings 1 Comment »

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Cool tools: Silobreaker and HubDub

February 6th, 2008 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools No Comments »

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If you’re naked, make sure you’re buff: what language says about the person

November 5th, 2007 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools, Language, Leadership, Research 5 Comments »

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Unusual scientfic reason for why John Edwards is lagging

October 28th, 2007 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools, Language, Political communications 1 Comment »

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Oh give me that VideoThang!

October 3rd, 2007 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools 3 Comments »

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TechnCrunch 40: new applications to keep changing how we live and work

September 20th, 2007 Lois Kelly Posted in Cool tools 1 Comment »

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