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SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.

This week we asked, Do you expect that data derived from social networks will influence your business decisions in the next year?The results:

  • Yes: 61.03%
  • No: 38.97%

Maybe it’s the interpretation of “data” that created such a high percentage of “No”?[…] Continue Reading »

Generally speaking, App.net is intended to be something of an ad-free Twitter clone, whereby users post updates and subscribe to others, creating a real-time feed personalized to their liking. Been there, done that, right? Well, not exactly. Neither Twitter nor Facebook are “ad-free.” The contention behind the social network is that increasingly more people are becoming “leery of the increasing efforts of Twitter and Facebook to position ads around their socializing,” Technology Review’s Tom Simonte wrote.[…] Continue Reading »

SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.

This week we asked, Does your social media strategy take mobile into account? The results:

  • No: 50.62%
  • Yes: 49.38%

This week’s poll is a deadlock, which leads me to wonder whether many of you think as I do, that mobile — or better stated, “mobility” — is far less of a question of social media strategy and much more an issue of marketing and business strategy.[…] Continue Reading »

SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.

This week we asked, Would you rather integrate your personal and professional social media profiles or keep them separate? The results:

  • I like keeping them separate: 85.76%
  • I’d like to have one profile for everything: 11.65%
  • I don’t think it matters: 2.59%

It’s clear from the results that the vast majority of us would prefer to keep our personal and professional social media profiles separate.[…] Continue Reading »

SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.

This week we asked, Does curation play a role in your company’s social-content strategy? The results:

  • Yes: 68%
  • No: 32%

Nearly 70% of you said curation plays a role in your social-content strategy.[…] Continue Reading »