Tag: social media

Social Physics – A New Science of Influence

April 20, 2015 Content Marketing, Social Influence 1 comment

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Sandy Pentland of MIT (courtesy of MIT)

Why do ideas spread from person to person? How do we marry the worlds of social influence, big data, and behavioural economics?

Enter Social Physics, a concept coined by MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Director of the Human Dynamics Laboratory, Pentland’s book Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – The Lessons from New Science proposes a new theory of human social interaction.


Serendipitous Content Marketing

April 12, 2015 Content Marketing no comments

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The ubiquity of social technologies and mobile devices have given rise to an interesting paradox.

We can now pinpoint with deadly accuracy who, where, when, and how consumers behave. Thanks to the assortment of sensing, tracking and predictive technologies, consumers’ every action can be accurately and meticulously mapped.


Influencer Marketing Ethics in Singapore

March 22, 2015 Social Influence 1 comment

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How should social media influencers act when faced with a moral dilemma? What is considered ethical and unethical in influencer marketing?

As I’ve previously blogged before in Who’s Your Influencer, online influencers are individuals who can “influence” the purchase decisions of others by virtue of their authority, knowledge, reputation or “likability”.