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Social Media Measurement 101

March 6th, 2009 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Practical - (1 Comments)

I agree upon the need to sort things out about providers of social media measurement. I´ve done some research over the past years and also have had the opportunity to meet a lot of people here in Sweden involved in measurement of social media. Here´s my ten cents on how customers can choose between providers … Read more

Per Robert Öhlin recently wrote an article named “What can we learn from Hollywood?” published in the Swedish marketing industry newspaper Dagens Media and re-published it on his blog. Unfortunately it´s in Swedish, but try putting it in Google Translate and you also add a lot of humour to the reading! In the article he … Read more

Today as I worked in the kitchen at Ängsbacka I got inspired to write about what I and others do in the field of blog classification. One of the best interpersonal communicators I´ve met, Maria Volden, sat down to sort a bunch of cards with names of different ingredients for the kitchen storage. The cards … Read more

PRfekt view on marketing and trust

December 22nd, 2008 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Systemic - (2 Comments)

I read this post about cluetrain manifesto. The comment by Doc Searls really got me thinking. Do I side with the marketers or the market? Why do I do what I do? What´s my manifesto? Here´s a start to it. I like marketing that is PULL. I don´t like marketing that is PUSH. Just like … Read more

Sometimes things seems so obvious that we tend not to act upon it. One of the reasons are that we think that if something seems that simple someone else would already have done it. Another reason is that most people are afraid to look silly by beeing naíve dilettantes in several fields of business and … Read more

I´ve worked as a media analyst categorizing press clippings. Except that it´s a bore, it´s actually also a truly interesting theoretical problem that arises when you do that. It´s very hard to categorize for instance a news story into the usual categories that are interesting to a marketer och PR consultant, namely topic and sentiment. … Read more

Time to sum up what has happened to PRfekt again: Aaarrrggghhhh….. Phheeew… Huhhh??!! That pretty much sums it all up. Talking to a cognitive behavioural therapist the other day I realized that it´s hard to even grasp what this supposedly little creative breake of mine actually have turned into. He looked more and more confused … Read more

Feeler or Thinker?

December 12th, 2008 | Posted by mattiasostmar in Systemic - (0 Comments)

Some people prefer to make decisions based on objective principles and others prefer to make decisions based on how THEY think the decision affects people. The first way seeks to be universally applicable and objective (e.g. no sex on the first date) and the second way seeks to be based on a persons values (e.g. … Read more

What makes people take an interest in media content? How do you produce media content that people cares about? Two fundamentally interesting questions in a time when traditional media are loosing both incomes and audiences at the same time. The multi billion dollar media industry in transformation is creating an increasingly squeeky sound these day. … Read more

This is first look at PRfekt Analys´ psychographic analysis of blogs. The system is developed during 2 years to help marketers reserach, measure and evaluate online communication – and also to be the basis of a couple of fun consumer sites. We´re able to analyse personality types according to the Enneagram, Myers-Briggs and David Keirsey´s … Read more