Monthly Archives: March 2009

20 ways to share a great blog post (from Mashable)

The ever interesting Mashable have posted a handy guide to sharing social media content you may find scattered around the web.  It’s definitely worth a read if you need to bone up. I particularly like the last point – it’s all to easy to forget about face-to-face communications when you have access to so much [...]

Should brand owners appoint WOM managers?

One of the many questions asked at this morning’s WOMUK Espresso briefing was were there any signs of brands appointing social media managers? I remember back in the day (well, about 2004) being asked by AOL if I knew of any potential candidates for a WOM Media Manager role they were creating. But I didn’t. [...]

Wildfire hosts WOMUK Breakfast Espresso Briefing

This morning saw Wildfire host a WOMUK breakfast briefing session in which Ivan talked about using alternative media in a recession and the implications for marketers of trying to participate in the Social Media space.

Baby Boomers adopting Social Networks & Blogs

It seems that Baby Boomers really are booming in the social network space. Whilst GEN Y’ers are generally considered to be the hardcore users of social networks a new report from Accenture shows that older users are now adopting at a rapid pace. Some standout stats from the report: the percentage of boomers reading blogs [...]

ExecTweets.com

Here’s an interesting little aggregation site that Microsoft are running for a current campaign – http://www.exectweets.com. Seems like it pulls in tweets from high ranking execs around the world and aggregates them for the community to see. You can recommend an exec and have a browse at tweets by industry. Jeremiah Owyang has a post [...]

Next Generation Social Marketing

We saw this posted on Slideshare – a good overview of social marketing tools and trends:

The ROI of Social Media Marketing

Here’s an interesting article posted on The ROI of Social Media Marketing (http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006989) based around a report produced by The Aberdeen Group and sponsored by Visible Technologies. Seems like more and more companies are entering the space but the thorny subject of measurement still remains. Whilst it’s interesting to see the tactics marketers are engaging [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to Wildfire’s mouthpiece. We will be posting all sorts of thoughts, facts, conundrums and musings on Social Media and Word of Mouth marketing. Lot’s more to come…so stay tuned!