This is a republished article from my Friday column at iStrategy where I answer questions from twitter users. Enjoy! What, in your opinion, is a better indication of influence: total of lists you're on, retweets, followers or other? from @rslaats. A: Thank you for the question. Influence is one of the most controversial topics on Twitter. In my honest opinion, I think there are various indicators of influence. There are some who judge influence purely on followers; others judge through the Klout score and there are even those who judge the ratio between following and followers. However, I feel that we should judge based on several factors, beginning with the Klout scores. Here is an example: … [Read more...] about Twitter Influence – Which metrics matter?
Sunday Coffee: Thoughts on influence and social media scalability
Due to my exams, I was not able to complete any interviews yet, but we’ll have more in the coming weeks from founders of great startups to businesses who are doing extremely well in groupon or group buys. As for today, I plan to sit back, relax, and enjoy my cup of coffee alone in my boxers (You don’t want to imagine how I look). However, this week’s Sunday Coffee would still include case studies which we all could learn from. I spent the entire day reading blog posts and watching some videos from various blogs. Two of those videos that got me thinking today were from Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) and Tom Webster (@webby2001). … [Read more...] about Sunday Coffee: Thoughts on influence and social media scalability
Focus Friday: Pretzel Crisps Personalizing an Experience
Today Focus Friday is on how Pretzel Crisps is using social media to connect with twitter users and bloggers. This experience was shared from a wonderful friend of mine, Jean aka @geekbabe that I’ve met on twitter, she actually blogged about her experience in her blog. … [Read more...] about Focus Friday: Pretzel Crisps Personalizing an Experience
What is twitter all about…. to me?
Everyone uses Twitter differently, and I can’t really tell you what it is about generally. However, I can tell you what Twitter is to me, personally. It is about connecting with people (guess you figure that out). It’s about building new relationships with people that you’re not able to do on other social networking sites, for example, when being on Facebook we tend to be inside our own circle of friends. Unless we connect with them on twitter first, then we might be able to grow our network on facebook. … [Read more...] about What is twitter all about…. to me?
Sunday Coffee: Willis Wee Co-Founder of Penn Olson
Welcome to another Sunday Coffee. Last week we had an amazing talk with Leon, co-founder of Bufferapp. Today we have another special guest with us, Willis Wee. Willis is the co-founder of Penn Olson, Asia's fastest growing blog with over 600,000 page views a month covering web, mobile, as well as start-ups in Asia. Penn Olson had a humble beginning back in July 2009 with only 2 writers, today the team is growing. Recently the blog received an investment from East Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Singapore for an undisclosed amount. (I hate secrets LoL). I'll be meeting Willis in Singapore soon and hopefully we will be able to bring you video interviews and real coffee instead of virtual coffee. Enjoy the interview. … [Read more...] about Sunday Coffee: Willis Wee Co-Founder of Penn Olson
Focus Friday: Humanizing your restaurant to respond to bad reviews
Today’s Focus Friday is dedicated to all the restaurantpreneurs (restaurant entrepreneurs) in the industry. This post was inspired by a tweet I had read a few days ago, Don Power from Sprout Social shared an interesting tweet from @FrankieJgrande about a bad restaurant review. In his tweet, Frankie wrote about the bad food and services that he received from the Pigalle New York. The tweet was then retweeted many times by Frankie’s followers and more people were asking him what had happened. If you were a restaurant owner, you could either do nothing and suffer the consequences (of course we wouldn’t want to do that now, do we?) or you could apologize sincerely and honestly. Now the latter sounds like a better reaction. In this post, I’ll include some case studies from real businesses … [Read more...] about Focus Friday: Humanizing your restaurant to respond to bad reviews