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Ben Ellis

Navigating Social Influence in 2023 - From Content Curation to Deinfluencing Feature Image

Navigating Social Influence in 2023 - From Content Curation to Deinfluencing

Here are my reflections based on a few interesting trends and updates in influencer marketing today, and the research that surrounds it.

· 5 min · Social Trends

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Setting up Social Intelligence from Scratch

With over 15 years of experience in digital analytics and social intelligence, I'm here to guide you through the process of building a successful social intelligence team.

· 11 min · Social Analytics

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MarTech List 200

You’re probably on the lookout for a new social tool to add to your toolkit this year. Perhaps you’re evaluating a few tools but you’re not sure who they’re competing against, or if there’s anything cheaper on the market, and you really need to know

· 9 min · MarTech

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Let’s Talk About Social Analytics - 2017 Edition

I gave a talk at Social Media Week Copenhagen (#SMWCPH / #SMWDK) a couple weeks ago, and it was a much needed update to my “Let’s Talk About Social Analytics” post from last year. While not much has changed, the urgency of what I talked about is the reason why

· 6 min · Social Analytics

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Google's SyntaxNet and Sentiment Analysis

Google have released SyntaxNet to the public, and as an analyst let me say this: this is the biggest news we’ve heard in a long time. Here’s why. SyntaxNet is a library of tools that can help machines understand language, a process called Natural Language Understanding (NLU). To

· 6 min · Social Listening

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Let’s Talk About Social Analytics

I spoke at a Link Humans event last week, and it was all about social analytics and "drawing consumer insights from your social analytics". Instead of picking just a topic, I thought I'd hold a "social analytics intervention", talking about a few things I

· 8 min · Social Analytics