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Screenshots: Disney Does f-commerce: 5 Lessons for Brands
Disney has just opened up a slick f-commerce store, selling advance tickets for Toy Story 3 directly from within Facebook. The Disney Tickets Together Facebook app works through online ticket retailer Fandango (about 20% of movie tickets are now purchased online), and allows people to [...]
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Asking which Department owns Social Media is like asking which Department owns the Paper
Interesting post by Christina Warren over at Mashable and even more interesting comment thread on “Which Department Owns Social Media?” Christina asks who actually owns social media in practice, and the comment thread discusses who “should” own it, if anybody. In practice, it seems (from an [...]
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Rotten Apples: iTunes integrates Rotten Tomatoes Reviews
Apple’s iTunes store for movies has integrated Rotten Tomatoes reviews, Flixter’s popular reviews aggregator of professional and audience reviews, displaying a ‘Tomatometer’ popularity gauge next to movies (article on Mashable). This is a smart use of the authority social influence cue. How could your brand [...]
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Presentation: Social Commerce – What Are We Waiting For?
Here’s a useful overview of the social commerce field by Jurgen Appelo, CIO at Dutch internet agency ISM eCompany & manager at social media agency Sociotoco. The presentation was given at a keynote speech at the GlobalCollect conference lat week in Prague. Social Commerce – What Are [...]
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Infographic: The State of the Geo-Location Nation
This infographic, just released by Column Five Media is a nice summary of the state of the geo-location nation – who’s doing what with how much, how how many users and which devices with geo-targeting and location based technology. Can innovative startups stay ahead of [...]
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Amazon Didn't Miss the Boat on Social Commerce, It Built It
On the back of social commerce conversations at the recent New York TechCrunch Disrupt event, Leena Rao asks over at TechCrunch whether Amazon missed the boat on social commerce. Leena agrees with Etsy’s Rob Kalin that whilst Amazon regins supreme in commodity commerce, it’s a laggard [...]
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Social Commerce Makeover: 7 Things Your Brand Should Be Doing Today – Summary & Link to Fluid Webinar
So here’s a summary of, and link to, what in our view is probably the best webinar to date on social commerce, from the good folks at the digital retail agency pioneering social commerce, Fluid. Presented by Andrew Sirotnik (Fluid’s chief experience officer) and Amy Lanigan (Fluid [...]
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Presentation: Social Commerce Teardown – How Heels.com Deploys Social Commerce
Here’s the presentation from last week’s Strands Recommender (social recommendation engine for e-commerce) webinar on social commerce, “Going Social: Creating A Social Shopping Strategy That Boosts Sales & Connects With Your Customers” featuring a teardown of the Heels.com deployment of social commerce. . Presented by Suleika [...]
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Video: TED Qualman – The Future of Social Media is Social Commerce
Erik Qualman, author of the social media bestseller “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way we Live and Do Business” spoke at the recent TEDx conference at Lansing, Michigan on the future of social media. The future, according to Qualman, is social commerce. The 17 [...]
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Social Commerce Hype or Advantage? (Student Paper)
Here’s a recent short student paper submitted to Social Commerce Today by Daniel Walther at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, entitled New Trends in Social Commerce: Just Hype or a Source of Sustainable Advantage? No new insights but a useful summary of outlining some of [...]
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