influencers

Veteran marketing strategist, Mat Morrison (aka @mediaczar) and self-described "World's Oldest Living Social Media Guru unpacked what 'influencer' means for marketing campaigns in his recent Digital Shoreditch presentation. Here he investigates just how influential is Stephen Fry and a lot more...

These are the slides and the (highly idealised, improved and much more eloquent) script that went with them at my lightning talk today at Digital Shoreditch. In reality, there’s a lot more thought and attention in this post than there was in the talk.

Social media influence and how to measure it, if that's even possible, is a red hot topic. A recent guest blog post from Simon Caine - I Hate Klout - kicked off a flurry of comments and twitter conversation - increasing his influence, perchance? Joanne Jacobs, one of those commenters kindly agreed to share her blog post and recent presentation on Influence & Marketing on Chinwag.

Last night I spoke at an event in London for marketing and PR practitioners on influence. I quite deliberately constructed a presentation which I knew would not be popular; I wanted to challenge marketing professionals on their focus on influencers as a mouthpiece for brands. Or perhaps more accurately, I wanted to tell them to stop what they were planning/doing and really think about why people are influencers to begin with.