Strategy, advice, and inspiration for digital marketing and social media experts

Social Media Command Centers: A Business Decision-Driven Model

September 1, 2012
Posted by: Peter Friedman, Founder, Chairman & CEO

At LiveWorld, we define a social media command center as an organized set of people and work flow to monitor, report on, escalate, respond, and engage on one or more social media venues.

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Marketing Revolution: Driven by Users on Twitter & Facebook

July 29, 2012
Posted by: Peter Friedman, Founder, Chairman & CEO

LiveWorld views this convergence as being less about the three categories of paid, owned, and earned coming together as it is about earned taking a dominant position in the paid and owned formats.

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Age Doesn’t Matter, Social Media Experience and Smarts Do

July 22, 2012
Posted by: Peter Friedman, Founder, Chairman & CEO

This past week a recent graduate of the University of Iowa student, Cathryn Sloan, ignited quite a firestorm of criticism when she posted a blog “Why Every Social Media Manager Should be Under 25” on NextGenJournal First I want to commend Cathryn on her social media smarts and skills. Unlike the many posts decrying your qualifications, I […]

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It’s Called “Social Media,” Not “Automated Media”

Posted by: Peter Friedman, Founder, Chairman & CEO

Companies that use automated models as their primary approach to social media (publishing, responding, engaging) risk these outcomes: Best case, they leave themselves exposed to defeat by competitors, and worst case, they irreparably damage their brands. Social media is about dialogue and relationships among people by definition — and that’s what consumers expect it to […]

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