    | | | Today's Buzz |  | | |  | - Twitter to upgrade "Discover" feature
Twitter's "Discover" feature will get an upgrade, turning to a user's followers list for personalized signals to determine which stories to highlight. The feature will be rolled out to the website before it comes to mobile applications, the company says. CNET (5/1)        |  | 7 Whiteboard Sessions for every social strategist. Learn how to implement & scale a social program across your enterprise company with this 36-page framework by Spredfast by delivering good customer experience, adopting social media company-wide, gaining insight into your social customer, & showing an ROI on social. Download 7 Whiteboard Sessions. | | | - Show us some love, advertisers tell Facebook
Facebook is neglecting the ad buyers who fund its business, some marketing executives say. The company's automated ad-buying system is efficient but it's all but impossible for brands to get personal attention, executives say. "For the longest time, we've been trying to call Facebook to do business with them and there's nobody to pick up the call," says Mike Parker of Tribal DDB. CNET (5/1) |  | Fly a lot? Earn 3X rewards points on airline purchases with The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN. Designed to earn Membership Rewards® points faster:
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  | | | Ideas in Action | | | |  | - National Zoo live-tweets panda insemination
Twitter users got something unexpected this week as the National Zoo live-tweeted the artificial insemination of its resident female panda, Mei Xiang. The episode drew buzz as the zoo's reproductive scientists posted explanations and photos of the process. "With little more than a phone and a hashtag -- #pandaAI -- the National Zoo very literally threw open a process that was until now only known through after-the-fact accounting by the media," Martin Austermuhle writes. DCist.com (Washington, D.C.) (4/30) - John Deere "craves" more action verbs on Facebook
John Deere says it will incorporate "want", "own", "love" and "crave" buttons to its Facebook advertising, in some cases driving traffic to dealers of the lawn-care products for a price quote and encouraging product testimonials. Facebook controls the use of such action verbs and is permitting more for various brands. ClickZ (5/1) | Research and Reports | | | |  | - Twitter predicts elections? Not so much, researcher says
Claims that Twitter buzz can predict election results are overblown, researcher Daniel Gayo-Avello says. Social media users aren't representative of general voting populations, tweets are often ambiguously written and so far all studies of Twitter's predictive power have been retrospective papers that benefit from 20-20 hindsight, rather than making predictions. "No, you cannot predict elections with Twitter," Gayo-Avello concludes in his analysis. MIT Technology Review online/The Physics ArXiv Blog (5/2) |  | Interactive marketers are feeling the pressure from government to offer clear, transparent privacy regulations for consumers. This free whitepaper, discusses various legislation, such as the EU Cookie Directive, and outlines how marketers must comply while offering a positive and enriching consumer interaction via the new paradigms of consensual targeting. Get the free whitepaper here. |
 | | - Do you use social tools to identify and nurture specific sales prospects?
| We don't use social media for sales |  45.45% | | Yes, but we move the sales process to other channels |  21.21% | | No -- we use social media for sales, but not on a 1-to-1 basis |  18.18% | | Yes, and we continue the sales process via social media |  15.15% | - How often do you review your social media strategy?
 | Less than 3 months between reviews | | Every 3 to 6 months | | Every 6 to 9 months | | Every 9 to 12 months | | Every 12 to 18 months | | Every 18 to 24 months | | More than 2 years between reviews | | We don't have a social media strategy |
| The Takeaway | | | |  | - Why Rokkan labels its client-focused tweets
Marketers and ad agencies must be upfront with their social followers about the degree to which their tweets and other messages are influenced by their clients, Rokkan social strategist Melyssa Brown says. All of Rokkan's client tweets are marked with a letter "c" to ensure that promotional messages are kept distinct from the agency's regular updates. "Transparency is a large part of the Rokkan culture, and that also carries over to the way I run our social channels," Brown says. Advertising Age (tiered subscription model) (5/1) |  | IDGA's 5th Social Media for Defense Summit addresses how the nature of combat operations has reshaped the way the military and government use social media. Also discussed: How to improve communication among the DoD and their families, with an emphasis on the use of social media to improve collaboration. | | | - What a Tetris guru can teach you about real-world achievement
University of Washington freshman Kevin Birrell is one of five people to be named a world grand master of the game Tetris, and he says the game has taught him lessons about how to conquer any challenge. A thousand-plus hours of practice have given Birrell calmness and a strong awareness of his limitations, he says. "If you have to think too much about what you're doing, you don't know it well enough yet," he says. GeekWire (4/28)
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