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State of Social Media Monitoring Survey

Published by Mike Kujawski on July 21, 2011

Once in a while, my organization CEPSM.ca conducts research geared at public sector and non-profit marketing/communications professionals. The research is meant to benefit the entire community as it addresses knowledge gaps in the industry. A few weeks ago, CEPSM partnered up with Environics Research Group to launch the “State of Social Media Monitoring in the Public and Non-Profit Sectors Survey“. If you haven’t yet responded, please do so asap. The survey takes less than 3 minutes to fill out.

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How using a marketing approach can help open data

Published by Mike Kujawski on July 19, 2011

One of the biggest barriers to the growth of the open data movement in my opinion is that nearly every open data related meeting/event is still comprised primarily of data geeks and app developers. The language that is used by this community (e.g. machine readable data, open access, genomes, geo-spatial, etc…) confuses the typical non-geek beyond hope. If you don’t capture the minds of the non-geeks out there to stimulate demand, how on earth are open data initiatives (e.g. data.gov and data.gc.ca) going to stay alive?

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Social Media Revolution 2011 – The new Erik Qualman video

Published by Mike Kujawski on June 21, 2011

Those of us in the social media fishbowl are all familiar with the Socialnomics video series by Erik Qualman. I have used various versions throughout the years in my presentations, however not so much over the last few, due to the simple fact that many of them were being over-played and over-hyped. Another element I wasn’t a fan of was the amount of American only statistics in past videos, especially considering how global social media has become.

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