Monthly Archives: January 2011

LivingSocial: A peek into the analytics of world's biggest deal

We all heard about last week’s LivingSocial deal of purchasing a $20 Amazon gift card for a mere $10. Here @iStrategyLabs, it would have been blasphemy not to purchase one. Many other people must have thought the same thing because 1.3 million deals sold in 24 hours. If you do the math, that’s 100,000 deals sold per [...]

Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Digital Word of Mouth, Social Media Monitoring

LivingSocial: A peek into the analytics of world’s biggest deal

We all heard about last week’s LivingSocial deal of purchasing a $20 Amazon gift card for a mere $10. Here @iStrategyLabs, it would have been blasphemy not to purchase one. Many other people must have thought the same thing because 1.3 million deals sold in 24 hours. If you do the math, that’s 100,000 deals sold per [...]

Posted in Buzz Monitoring, Digital Word of Mouth, Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Analysis of the State of the Net Conference

The two-day State of the Net Conference wrapped up last Wednesday, January 19th, with the most comprehensive net policy agenda, prominent experts in Internet policy and law, and 500 attendees from around the country. As with most conferences these days, participants could continue discussion online by following the event’s hashtag, #SOTN. We pulled all 1,500+ [...]

Posted in blog, Buzz Monitoring, Digital Word of Mouth, Influencer Identification...

10 Ways To Market Your Startup

For aspiring entrepreneurs, taking a concept from inception to launch can happen faster an cheaper than ever before. You just launched a shiny new site, and your product has been thoroughly tested and debugged — and now you’re in the hot seat (either from investors, co-workers, or yourself) to ramp up your almost non-existent marketing [...]

Posted in Digital Word of Mouth, Innovation Design

Intelligent Cities: The Community – 50,000% Growth in Facebook

We’re involved in a really interesting campaign with the National Building Museum called the Intelligent Cities Initiative (#icities). As an adviser to the project, and resident social media nerd, I get to look at all sorts of interesting data about our cities. The following infographic was just released by the museum and will be featured [...]

Posted in Social Network Analysis