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Chinwag Live at the eCommerce Expo: "Social Media ROI"
Last week I went to the eCommerce Expo held at Olympia in Kensington. Yesterday I wrote about a couple of the free 'seminar' sessions that I attended there. One of the main reasons for attending was to see the session being run by Chinwag - "Chinwag Live - Social Media ROI". With my recent series on measuring social media success for newspapers and television channels, it is obviously a topic I am very interested in. Chairman of the session Philip...

Read the full post - Published November 4, 2008 in Events, Social media - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Social media: Contextual help on US newspaper websites
Over the last couple of days I've been looking at how 24 hour news television stations and British newspapers provide contextual help to social media users online. Today I wanted to turn my attention to the US newspaper market, to see how this segment of the online industry helps users to discover social bookmarking. As I've been surveying sites for their social media usage, I've been basing my studies of US newspapers on the list in 24/7 Wall Street's...

Read the full post - Published October 23, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Social media: Contextual help on 24 hour news TV websites
Yesterday I was looking at how British newspaper sites provide contextual help around the social bookmarking sites that they link to. I found that The Sun provided a very comprehensive help guide, but aside from The Independent, and some 'mouse-over tool tips' from The Guardian, nobody else did. As part of my recent social media study I also looked at a selection of 24 hour news television channels, to see if they provided bookmarking links. Today I wanted to...

Read the full post - Published October 22, 2008 in BBC, CNN, Social media, Television - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Social media: Contextual help on UK newspaper websites
So far in my observations of the use of social bookmarking links on mainstream media sites I have concentrated on the end results - the number of URLs that became popular on a service. Today I wanted to start looking at one aspect of the user interface that media sites provide, namely whether they have any 'contextual help' for users around social bookmarking. Of course, it could be convincingly argued that actually the job of 'contextual help' here is...

Read the full post - Published October 21, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Social media and www.bbc.co.uk
Yesterday I wrote about the disappointing performance of the UK's terrestrial broadcasters on social media sites. During the course of my recent month long study, aside from the BBC, I only spotted one URL from Channel 4 become popular. There was no content at all from ITV or Five.       However, the BBC figure is, of course, distorted by the inclusion of BBC News stories in the figure of 341 popular social media URLs. Indeed, if I excluded...

Read the full post - Published October 14, 2008 in BBC, Popular, Social media - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Social media and terrestrial television
During July and August I recorded over 3,500 URLs from mainstream media sites becoming popular on 8 social bookmarking services. Using the results I've so far published an e-book covering UK newspaper success with social media, and blogged about local newspaper and freesheet success, as well as writing a whole series on 24 hour news stations like CNN, the BBC, Sky News and Al Jazeera. Another group of sites I looked at was the UK's terrestrial broadcasters. I expected...

Read the full post - Published October 13, 2008 in Social media, Television - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Will The Telegraph's tie-up with eMusic expose the staff's guilty pleasures?
I noticed a couple of weeks back that The Telegraph has a special promotion, where they have joined forces with eMusic to give away free downloads to readers. What struck me as really interesting is the way that they are selling the idea that you can see and follow the music taste of Telegraph writers and editors, as well as contribute to a Telegraph 'chart'. Since eMusic is a social download platform, member's networks can build into an interesting blend...

Read the full post - Published October 9, 2008 in Daily Telegraph, Music, Social media - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring social media success
Over the last week I've been publishing a series of articles looking at the social media performance of the websites belonging to some 24 hour news channels, including CNN, the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, Euronews and France 24. The results have been derived from a thirty day study I carried out in July and August 2008, taking half-hourly snapshots of Delicious, Digg, Fark, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Yahoo! Buzz to look for prominent media URLs....

Read the full post - Published September 27, 2008 in Articles, BBC, CNN, Social media, Television - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring the social media success of Russia Today, Euronews and France 24
This week's series of posts on currybetdotnet have been looking at the performances of 24 hour news channel websites like CNN, BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera on social media websites. Today I wanted to look at 3 other stations that featured as part of my social media survey - Russia Today, Euronews and France 24. Russia Today on Reddit During the course of the month's study I only saw content from the Russia Today website on five...

Read the full post - Published September 26, 2008 in Social media, Television - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring Al Jazeera's success with social media
This week I've been examining the social media success of the website belonging to some major 24 hour news television stations. So far I've looked at impressive performances from the BBC and CNN, each with over 300 links going popular across 8 services during the course of a month. Yesterday I looked at a more modest performance by Sky News, and today it is the turn of the English language version of Qatar-based Al Jazeera. Newsvine During my study...

Read the full post - Published September 25, 2008 in Social media, Television - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring Sky News' success with social media

Published September 24, 2008 in Social media - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring the BBC's success with social media

Published September 23, 2008 in BBC, Social media - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Social media and TV news: Measuring CNN's success with social media

Published September 22, 2008 in CNN, Social media, Television - No comments yet   Add your comment 

The impact of duplicate content on social media success for newspapers

Published September 19, 2008 in Daily Mail, Newspapers, Social media - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Measuring This Is Plymouth's success with Fark

Published September 18, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Measuring London newspaper success with social media

Published September 17, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Measuring Metro's success with social media

Published September 16, 2008 in Newspapers, Social media - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Measuring UK newspaper success with social media

Published September 15, 2008 in Articles, Newspapers, Popular, Social media - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

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