Chris ThilkJanuary 13th, 2012
Every year Voce hosts a very nice dinner for media and others during CES 2012. This year’s event was a fun, interesting night and so we thought we’d share some photos from the night here. About the AuthorChris Thilk works on the Client Services team, part of Voce Connect, developing and executing social media strategy. [...]
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Chris ThilkJanuary 6th, 2012
Over the course of the last week or so there was a lot of talk about Google+. Much of that revolved around a new ad campaign to promote the still young social network with TV spots starring The Muppets and more standard online placements that’s been designed to get more people on board. (Of note [...]
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Chris ThilkDecember 7th, 2011
This past weekend, while attending WordCamp Orlando, I was doing there what I’ve been doing quite a bit of lately: Covering the event live, posting updates to Twitter and to the event’s blog as the day went on and sessions progressed.The specifics of how these things play out are pretty well known at this point – [...]
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Chris ThilkNovember 11th, 2011
As you’ve read about on roughly every website, blog, Twitter feed and other web-based communications platform, Google opened up Google+, their nascent social network, for use by brands, businesses and companies this past Monday. Instead of rehashing the “how to set up an account” tutorials or other common themes that have been done to death [...]
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Chris ThilkOctober 20th, 2011
There’s always (and by always I mean consistently for the last five or six years) a lot of talk about making content engaging and easy for people to share online. That’s the way people spread word of mouth recommendations on status networks and elsewhere so the race is always on to encourage readers of corporate [...]
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Chris ThilkAugust 8th, 2011
Why Interaction is Not the Same as Engagement: By showing the difference between the amount of people who just signaled that they liked a Kickstarter project and those who had actually chipped in with cash this shows just how different those two terms are. And it’s important to keep them distinct since I think some [...]
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Chris ThilkAugust 1st, 2011
AP Will Link Back to Newspapers Who Get Scoops: The AP has always credited source newspapers if it picked up a story from a member paper but now it will include links back to the original. The links will appear in parentheses and be non-hyperlinked bit.ly URLs, though, but it’s still progress. There are lots [...]
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Chris ThilkJuly 18th, 2011
Google Now Pushing More Share Buttons Than Twitter: This is interesting and all but, as the story points, out, the adoption rate for those type of buttons isn’t necessarily indicative of how widely they’re used. More specifically, just because people are using one social network in a particular way doesn’t automatically mean they’ll use other [...]
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Chris ThilkJuly 11th, 2011
Google Analytics Starts Getting Social With +1 Button Data: It’s pleasantly surprising that Google is so quickly making sure that there are actual analytics behind one of its publishing-related products. More broadly it’s a big time saver to see Social Engagement broken out in Analytics like this. Now if we can only get Feedburner information [...]
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Becky is a Bay Area Native with a degree in PR who works on a handful of Voce clients.
