Paul Gillin

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Five Facebook Tips for Small Businesses

Paul Gillin

Intel’s Facebook welcome page features product promotions, a gateway to its international pages, jobs, discounts and even a Twitter feed. Facebook’s built-in analytics give you a pretty good idea of what’s sparking conversation on your page. Each answer to the quiz is shareable, as is the final score. Tip #5: Measure.

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15 Tips for Getting the Most From LinkedIn Groups

Paul Gillin

Don’t Copy From Twitter. The language we use on Twitter doesn’t fit well in the more generous confines of a LinkedIn or Facebook post. Polls are a basic tool you can use to solicit feedback. It generates longer links, but they’re compatible with Google Analytics. Take Advantage of Polls. prior to posting them.

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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

Connections to popular content management systems make it possible to automatically publish content to a website and even syndicate it to Twitter and Facebook without leaving the CIThread dashboard. CIThread can also tie in to Web analytics engines to fold audience behavior into its decision-making.

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

It’s easy to cast aside analytical tasks when everyone is focused on generating revenue. But choosing the tool isn’t nearly as important as knowing how to put it to work. Web analytics today deliver unprecedented insight about online interactions. Sidebar – Valuing Twitter Followers. They look like this: [link].

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

.” This is not new tools, it’s a complete reinvention of systems that form the core of how a business operates. It’s like Moneyball: analytics + baseball = new game.” ” When you get serious about transformation, you stop thinking about tools and start thinking about platforms.