Author: Damien Mulley

Links this week – June 7th 2010

Clever. Nice iPhone app from the Tate that incorporates fun games too so there’s learning/experiences being created.

So per capita, Ireland is in the top 15 countries worldwide for Facebook penetration.

Tips on how to produce a Webinar that works.

TV shows and Facebook and Twitter. Update as you watch.

The new True Blood Season 2 Blu-ray Disc has a social networking feature that fans of the HBO series can really sink their teeth into: automatic updates to their Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Making your video news more discoverable: best practices for news publishers. Equally applies to loads of other segments too.

Links this week – May 24th 2010

Want to find mass influencers? Find: Rich, iPhone waving, young people

Games and Apps on Facebook will now be able to send email invites to play the game (and join Facebook)

Online campaigns influenced UK voters, it seems.

Ten guidelines for running an online competition.

Passing the 100+ (genuine) followers on Twitter threshold is good for business.

Is marketing on Twitter a waste of time? Seems not.

Old but fantastic all the same. Watch the real-time purchasing map from Zappos.

The next Measure it! is on June 2nd at 10am-12pm

Venue is Hogan Suite, Academy Plaza Hotel, off O’Connell street. Map.

If you want to attend this free event, please leave a comment.

Following on from the first Measure it! and with the feedback to hold another, the next one is on June 2nd. We’ll have two or maybe even three 10 minute presentations on social media and measuring success of a campaign followed by breaking into groups and coming up with solutions to a given task.

The aim of Measure it! is to get people thinking about metrics and measurements for social media and marketing. A side-effect of Measure it! is you get to meet people who are also looking an metrics and have some great ideas to share.

Measure it! is free to attend with the precondition you are willing to share some insights and thoughts. Do come along for the two hours.

Update May 29th:
There will be presentations from Realex Payments, O’Leary Analytics and Barry Hand.

Facebook Ireland brings in City Targeting

There are 1.5 Million people using Facebook in Ireland. Almost 1 Million of them use it on a daily basis. There are lots of other stats we can dig out from Facebook and some are below. As of today you can see details of people in cities and get some pretty sweet extra demographics from a system that allows you to get details on age, gender, work, education, interests, birthday and whether they like your brand on Facebook already.

Facebook Ireland City Targeting

Lots and lots of cities and towns, here’s just some for Cork:
Facebook Ireland City Targeting

And the healthy stats as of publication:
1,575,720 people who live in Ireland
920,880 who live in Dublin, Cork, Limerick or Galway

699,800 people who live in Dublin
87,560 people who live in Cork
61,040 people who live in Limerick
70,320 people who live in Galway
90,980 people who live in Belfast

With this we can send targeted ads to people that use Facebook. Examples: Offer Leaving Cert grinds to kids in Cork. Offer last minute meal deals to people in Galway that like Italian food. Offer county themed T-Shirts to GAA fans in Donegal. Little bit of imagination and you can see how much fun it can be.

That’s ads. Expect to eventually do status updates targeted by Cities and location. Facebook interactions and marketing based on location details is around the corner too so stay tuned. Once you digest that and start to play with the ad system, remind yourself about Foursquare too.

Links for the week April 26th 2010 – Stats

By the numbers…

Social networking now more traffic and time than email. Still more people with emails than accounts on Facebook, for now.

Twitter stats. Amazing stats at that.

105,779,710 registered users
600 million searches per day
180 million unique visitors per month
37 percent of active users use Twitter on their phones

Tumblr hits 1BN pageviews a month.

Foursquare and the History Channel adding some history to Foursquare locations.

Fascinating insight into what works on Facebook for marketing.

Links for the week of April 19th 2010

RTÉ versus print news websites. Wrong battle lads and the wrong war perhaps.

Kings College Hospital asks the public to tell it how to improve.

10 tips for non-profits on facebook.

Meanwhile using Twitter for non-profits.

Google and Adwords and remarketing.

Let’s say you’re a basketball team with tickets that you want to sell. You can put a piece of code on the tickets page of your website, which will let you later show relevant ticket ads (such as last minute discounts) to everyone who has visited that page, as they subsequently browse sites in the Google Content Network. In addition to your own site, you can also remarket to users who visited your YouTube brand channel or clicked your YouTube homepage ad.

Measure it! – May 5th – Dublin

Update: Measure it! takes place in the Odeon Bar, Harcourt Street on May 5th from 10am to 12pm.
Second update: It’s a free event.

Measure it!
One needs an exclamation mark to make your event more exciting. In the spirit of MeasurementCamp, we’ll be hosting an event around social media and measurement and we’ll call it “Measure it!”. Two hours, 10am-12pm. Two ten minute case studies which will concentrate on the measurement of campaigns, we’ll break you into groups to do a task then we might wrap up with a Q&A.

Who’s it for?
PR companies, marketing companies, individuals, organisations, monkey trainers (if you have a Twitter account), people wanting to figure this social media lark out.

Sign up in the comments
If you want to come along, leave a comment over there ->

And yes, there’s space for us all.

Online PR Course – May 2010

After getting some feedback from folks (thank you) I’ve rejigged the Online PR Course I gave back in January and will now be doing a premium course based on it. It will be on May 4th in the Camden Court Hotel, start at 9.30am. 210 euros for a day, inc lunch. Max places = 14. If interested email damien mulley.ie with subjectline: May Online PR

Online PR course breakdown

  • 0. Basics of Online Comms
  • 1. Developing a Communications Bible
  • 2. Developing a Comms Philosophy
  • 3. Working with: Bloggers, Running blogger events, Forums, Twitter etc.
  • 4. Finding Tools – Who is talking about you online?
  • 5. Crisis Communications

    Update: More details
    * 0. Basics of Online Comms

    How people are communicating online. The numbers, the tools and sites they use and the language they use

    * 1. Developing a Communications Bible

    Using techniques used by TV show writers to create a working document on how a company communicates with itself and the outside world and the prescribed methods and content to be used when communicating.

    * 2. Developing a Comms Philosophy

    Working with your staff to create guidelines on communicating with the outside world both when as an official representative of the company as well as when in a personal capacity.

    * 3. Working with: Blogs, Forums, Twitter etc.

    How to use online media to spread your company message and how working with bloggers, Twitterers and Facebook users can create digital word of mouth campaigns

    * 4. Finding Tools – Who is talking about you online?

    We go through a list of tools you can use (both free and premium) to see what people are saying about you and your competitors and where they’re saying it

    * 5. Crisis Communications

    With the best of intentions, things can go wrong and go wrong quite quickly. We go through how best to respond to a crsis and how to turn any negative fallout into neutral or positive sentiment. We’ll use Irish and UK examples of good ways to address a crisis online.