There's a bigger problem than finding a tool for measuring social branding efforts or determining the influence of key players within a community. It's the fact that you need to find 20 tools.

Okay, an exaggeration perhaps. But there's a point to make here. Because while most of the industry is feverishly searching for the holy grail of social effectiveness and influence measurement, they're missing the fact that a single source of data or using a single analysis tool is not nearly enough.

...if we assume that any of these tools, even as an aggregate, are giving us the entire picture of influence we are fooling ourselves. At best these tools are only giving us clues.

Any direct marketer will tell you that the only thing worse than a single source of data or a single model for guiding a marketing program is having no data at all. Why are they so critical? Simply because another thing that all direct marketers know is data lies. . . .

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Discovery Channel wanted to make the second season of The Colony relevant for a new, socially connected audience segment. Campfire created a two-week campaign that told the catastrophic back-story of The Colony in a very personal, shareable way.

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"What set the experience apart was the lavish attention to detail taken in transforming words on a page into each of the five modular sensory experiences that comprised HBO's interpretation of the story."

read more at Wired

"Each endeavor not only tied back to the storytelling at work in the show, but also brought those unfamiliar with the novels into the spirit of the program."

read at Post Advertising

Sparks: Glowing Bits of Throught-Starting Goodness

"Today" Project

Jonathan Harris

The creator of 'We Feel Fine' and 'Wale Hunt' took a photo a day from the day he turned 30. In the companion film, he talks of memory, creating something to last and using story as a technique to organize the past in a moment-to-moment world.

Official Passion: Nike Turns Fans Into Citizens

Nike

Leave it to Nike to give fans the opportunity to hold birth certificates and passports of their favorite team by making it a "real" country.


Geo-Graffiti

FatCap

Graffiti culture continues to come under the spotlight as tools like these map out the street-art scene. We're intersted in how this community evolves.

Digital Marketing Trends

Google

Complementing our main feature's topic is this new website from the data-savvy minds at Google. They're sharing insights from their studies in human behavior on the web and how marketers adapt to these changes.


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