Happy Follow Friday! It has been another great week in the social media space. This week I wanted to give special mentions to some people, and a particular cat, for their expertise in sports and social media. (more…)
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Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will be banning social media from students for 1 week, to allow them to realize how becoming disconnected from social media effects their daily lives. Per Mashable, the students will be forbidden from using Twitter, Facebook, instant messaging and any other online communication except for e-mail. (more…)
Happy Follow Friday everyone. I wanted to give a special Friday mention to my three picks for this week. They are all talented, young professionals in the Milwaukee area that will bring excellent skills to any company. (more…)
I wanted to give a shout-out to Donatos Pizza for a cool, yet simple, Twitter promotion that they ran today to increase their community.
Here is the Tweet they sent, notifying their current fan base of the promotion:
If you’re looking to increase awareness of your brand on Twitter, I suggest running a simple promotion such as this one that Donatos Pizza is running. It’s a simple strategy to encourage your followers to bring more traffic to your account, while offering them a potential reward in return.
Here are some examples of people that participated in the contest. Will they share their pizza with you?
Thank you Jason for sharing your pizza with @BrianGainor and I! Since you mentioned him in your pizza party, I forgot to mention the husband in mine…
If I win a pizza, I look forward to sharing it with these 6! Plus, @BrianGainor of course.
What do you think of the promotion? How would you expand upon it?
There are a lot of creative elements that go into a strategic social media engagement plan. The creativity behind a successful campaign draws my attention to a particular brand and it is what I enjoy most about social media.
Without creativity, it is not possible to reach an audience. The representation of your brand must be cohesive, aesthetically pleasing and explain what it is you’re trying to tell your audience.
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Brian and I were in Chicago for Labor Day weekend celebrating our 1 year anniversary. We had a lot of activities on the weekend agenda, but one of them didn’t include the surprise we would find in the downtown Chicago parking garage. (more…)