Comments for WalesCymru and Welsh Social Media Blog http://blog.walescymru.com Site news and commentary for WalesCymru.com and the Welsh social media scene Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:40:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 Comment on DBEs - Social Networks for Welsh Business by clickbridge http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/07/17/social-networking-for-welsh-business/#comment-46 clickbridge Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:39:03 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/07/17/social-networking-for-welsh-business/#comment-46 Excellent informative article, Greg . Please keep us informed about the progress of Digital Business Ecosystems and their ecology. I promise not to be a predator and will endeavour to be an errmmm... symbiote? Excellent informative article, Greg . Please keep us informed about the progress of Digital Business Ecosystems and their ecology. I promise not to be a predator and will endeavour to be an errmmm… symbiote?

]]> Comment on Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ by JasonU http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-41 JasonU Wed, 06 May 2009 19:36:06 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-41 Thanks for that information. It has not crossed my mind to sell click throughs from twitter as a service. I use it tandem with other sources to gain traffic. It would be interesting to see the subsequent conversion rates / time spent on site / page open etc figures as well. Thanks for that information.

It has not crossed my mind to sell click throughs from twitter as a service.

I use it tandem with other sources to gain traffic. It would be interesting to see the subsequent conversion rates / time spent on site / page open etc figures as well.

]]> Comment on Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ by greg http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-40 greg Wed, 06 May 2009 18:01:34 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-40 Jason. Interesting question on Twitter Click Thru Rates. I found the following Blog on Tweetburner useful: http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickthrough-rates.html This shows Tweeters with largest number of followers had the lowest CTR, around 4%, while those with fewer followers could get very high CTR. One Tweeter, with 7 followers, had 91% CTR. The answer I suppose depends on why your followers chose to follow you in the first place, and how useful your updates are to them. Jason. Interesting question on Twitter Click Thru Rates. I found the following Blog on Tweetburner useful:

http://twitterfacts.blogspot.com/2008/06/tweetburner-clickthrough-rates.html

This shows Tweeters with largest number of followers had the lowest CTR, around 4%, while those with fewer followers could get very high CTR. One Tweeter, with 7 followers, had 91% CTR. The answer I suppose depends on why your followers chose to follow you in the first place, and how useful your updates are to them.

]]> Comment on Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ by greg http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-39 greg Wed, 06 May 2009 17:50:31 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-39 Dave, as I understand - on Twitter you select the people you Follow and it's their updates you see. Anyone can follow you, but that doesn't clog your timeline; in fact it's a measure of how interesting and/or useful your updates are. A company such as Amazon, or an airline such as BA may have several million followers, who want to be kept up-to-date on product releases, offers, etc. CNN in fact has the largest number of Twitter followers, approx 1.4m; while the 'un/official' Coca Cola Facebook page has over 3m 'fans'. This blog is about list building (the service you were complaining about), and how you go about generating more 'followers'. I was not advocating this as a way to build your own Friend list; or to automate the selection of those people you're 'following'. The point of the blog is simply to ask, why have a large follower base if this has no value to you. Dave, as I understand - on Twitter you select the people you Follow and it’s their updates you see. Anyone can follow you, but that doesn’t clog your timeline; in fact it’s a measure of how interesting and/or useful your updates are. A company such as Amazon, or an airline such as BA may have several million followers, who want to be kept up-to-date on product releases, offers, etc. CNN in fact has the largest number of Twitter followers, approx 1.4m; while the ‘un/official’ Coca Cola Facebook page has over 3m ‘fans’. This blog is about list building (the service you were complaining about), and how you go about generating more ‘followers’. I was not advocating this as a way to build your own Friend list; or to automate the selection of those people you’re ‘following’. The point of the blog is simply to ask, why have a large follower base if this has no value to you.

]]> Comment on Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ by JasonU http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-38 JasonU Mon, 04 May 2009 20:19:28 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-38 Do you know what the click through rates are from posts on Twitter? Do you know what the click through rates are from posts on Twitter?

]]> Comment on Cashing in on ‘Friends’ and ‘Followers’ by davebull http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-37 davebull Mon, 04 May 2009 16:58:56 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/05/04/cashing-in-on-friends-and-followers/#comment-37 Hi Greg You tweeted to say this article was "in response to" my tweet in which I objected to a new follower trying to drive me to a website selling an "automated system" for getting me 20,000 followers. I can't really see that this article addresses that issue; you seem to start from a position that has no qualms whatsoever with clogging someone else's timeline with adverts for systems that involve clogging someone else;'s timeline with adverts, and that concerns me. Ecademy didn't take long to turn into a sharkpool of pyramid salesmen (despite the exorbitant membership fees); linkedin will probably go the same way because of its guilt-driven system to make everyone recommend everyone else; I would be really really saddened to see the quite incredible communications tool that is Twitter become deserted by all the decent folk simply because people bought into this myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the.... Everyone keeps saying it, and it's true: people buy people. Yes, it's harder to spot a robot in 140 characters than it is face to face, over the phone or in an email. I have no problem with building genuine lists of people who are genuinely interested in reading your stuff. I do have a problem with being randomly targeted by people because they're desperate to recoup the money they've lost to another spammer by spamming me. Dave Hi Greg

You tweeted to say this article was “in response to” my tweet in which I objected to a new follower trying to drive me to a website selling an “automated system” for getting me 20,000 followers.

I can’t really see that this article addresses that issue; you seem to start from a position that has no qualms whatsoever with clogging someone else’s timeline with adverts for systems that involve clogging someone else;’s timeline with adverts, and that concerns me.

Ecademy didn’t take long to turn into a sharkpool of pyramid salesmen (despite the exorbitant membership fees); linkedin will probably go the same way because of its guilt-driven system to make everyone recommend everyone else; I would be really really saddened to see the quite incredible communications tool that is Twitter become deserted by all the decent folk simply because people bought into this myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the myth that you can build a business with no effort by getting software to sell other people on the….

Everyone keeps saying it, and it’s true: people buy people. Yes, it’s harder to spot a robot in 140 characters than it is face to face, over the phone or in an email. I have no problem with building genuine lists of people who are genuinely interested in reading your stuff. I do have a problem with being randomly targeted by people because they’re desperate to recoup the money they’ve lost to another spammer by spamming me.

Dave

]]> Comment on Twitter for Business by Posts about sms as of April 16, 2009 | Shirasmane http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/04/15/twitter-for-business/#comment-36 Posts about sms as of April 16, 2009 | Shirasmane Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:54:28 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/04/15/twitter-for-business/#comment-36 [...] Twitter for Business - blog.walescymru.com 04/15/2009 You may not have heard of Twitter, but you will. It is the latest [...] […] Twitter for Business - blog.walescymru.com 04/15/2009 You may not have heard of Twitter, but you will. It is the latest […]

]]> Comment on Can-y-Bae Hotel rated number 1 in the UK by Rhys http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/01/15/can-y-bae-hotel-rated-number-1-in-the-uk/#comment-33 Rhys Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:09:39 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2009/01/15/can-y-bae-hotel-rated-number-1-in-the-uk/#comment-33 My friend (who isn't obsessed with Web2.0 sites as I am) mentioned this story i the pub on Friday - after I read about it here first. He says that when he's sent to Llandudno to cover annual (political) party conferences, this is the hotel his company always uses. He can't believe this is the top rated hotel in the Uk. Not that there's anything wrong with it (apart from their TV ariel pointing towards north west England, so you get Granda and BBC North West rather than Welsh news), just that it's very ordinary and bog-standard. I do look at TripAdvisor now and again if I'm going away, but from reading the comments, I get the impression that users are of a certain age and their tastes/expectations differ to mine quite a bit. My friend (who isn’t obsessed with Web2.0 sites as I am) mentioned this story i the pub on Friday - after I read about it here first.

He says that when he’s sent to Llandudno to cover annual (political) party conferences, this is the hotel his company always uses.

He can’t believe this is the top rated hotel in the Uk. Not that there’s anything wrong with it (apart from their TV ariel pointing towards north west England, so you get Granda and BBC North West rather than Welsh news), just that it’s very ordinary and bog-standard.

I do look at TripAdvisor now and again if I’m going away, but from reading the comments, I get the impression that users are of a certain age and their tastes/expectations differ to mine quite a bit.

]]> Comment on 100% of marketers plan to use social media; 50% will get it wrong by KaileeBrown http://blog.walescymru.com/2008/10/18/100-of-marketers-plan-to-use-social-media-50-will-get-it-wrong/#comment-29 KaileeBrown Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:42:35 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2008/10/18/100-of-marketers-plan-to-use-social-media-50-will-get-it-wrong/#comment-29 This is such a great point. So many companies think they are ready for social media because they hear the results are awesome. What they seem to miss is that the results are only awesome if you're actually doing it right. And that means listening and engaging with your consumers. This is brand building, not advertising. It's so different, and it will probably take a very long time for people to understand that. Thanks for pointing this out and including me in your post :) This is such a great point. So many companies think they are ready for social media because they hear the results are awesome. What they seem to miss is that the results are only awesome if you’re actually doing it right. And that means listening and engaging with your consumers. This is brand building, not advertising. It’s so different, and it will probably take a very long time for people to understand that.

Thanks for pointing this out and including me in your post :)

]]> Comment on Search Problems by admin http://blog.walescymru.com/2007/11/06/search/#comment-4 admin Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:25:20 +0000 http://blog.walescymru.com/2007/11/06/search/#comment-4 The search has been updated to fix an issue with the result pages - some searches would not let you browse to result pages, this is now fixed. The search has been updated to fix an issue with the result pages - some searches would not let you browse to result pages, this is now fixed.

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