As the CEO and founder of Social Fresh, Jason is the lead analyst and consultant for all Social Fresh brand clients. Jason has 15+ years of experience as a marketing leader and focuses on how to help brands be more creative with their social media. Jason is regularly featured as a keynote speaker on social media and is regularly quoted as a social media expert by the NY Times, MSNBC, USA Today, and more.
The Gamification wiki gives us a pretty good starter definition, “Gamification is the use of game design thinking for non-gaming applications” or for our purposes, using game design thinking for marketing your business. The Oxford English Dictionary even...
It is that time again freshmakers. Sit your children down around the fire, serve up some hot cider, some smores, and turn the phonograph on low. Your next Get Real with Spike video just landed (@spikejones). In...
Great content gets shared. Right? But does the time and day that you publish that great content affect how much it gets shared or how many times it gets viewed? We have looked at best times to...
At Social Fresh our purpose is to help marketers use social media to build better businesses. We do that here on the blog, through our online webinars and Academy, and at our social media conferences. So...
A year ago we created a survey to find out, among other things, how much money community managers make. The average salary a year ago of community managers surveyed was $61,800 a year. Not bad. That...
One of the most popular articles I wrote in 2011 was a recap of the hottest social media apps in 2010. In an ecosystem where dozens of new social networks, apps, and services are created each...
Coca-Cola joined Tumblr right after Christmas with their new photo focused blog titled “Happiness Is“. This is in addition to Coca-Cola’s very established presence on top social networks Facebook (37 million fans), Twitter (420k followers), and...
UPDATE: (8:00 am Jan. 10) It looks like Facebook has taken this page down as of today. Perhaps because it violates their TOS as it is not a real person. We reached out to the...
Originally published on Blaisegv.com (edited by socialfresh.com) Last week we covered the many benefits in working with an Editorial Calendar when managing an online community. In this article I will explain how to actually develop this calendar, provide examples...
Originally published on Blaisegv.com (edited by socialfresh.com) In the intense world of managing an online community, it’s easy to make grandiose plans but far harder to stick to them. Exciting events and milestones come and go, but it’s...
