Author Archives: Rebecca Denison

About Rebecca Denison

Passionate UNC graduate (and basketball fan) interested in social media and measurement. As a biochemist-turned-communications professional, I spend my days as a senior social media analyst at Digitas in Chicago. Through my work, I have been able to establish social media monitoring and measurement best practices. I’m excited to explore more aspects of online measurement like traditional Web analytics, search metrics and integrated data models as I continue to learn and grow.

If you’re going to measure, you have to get real and face the music

Originally posted on PRBreakfastClub. Lately there has been much more of a focus on public relations measurement, which I think is a great step for the industry. My concern with suddenly embracing measurement is that it’s a bit like Othello – … Continue reading

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Metrics and Cockfosters

Originally posted on PRBreakfastClub. I’ve been a bit delinquent in writing my fair share of posts recently due to my recent vacation to London. I spent one glorious week with my little sister and parents exploring one of the oldest … Continue reading

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Klout Adds Context to Automated Influence?

Originally posted on PRBreaktfastClub. Klout recently announced its latest feature: +K. Similar to Google’s +1, Klout asks that you give users a +K for each topic for which they have influenced you. In theory, Klout scores will now include context and topical … Continue reading

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Taking on a new challenge!

As many of you already know, Friday, April 22, was a bittersweet day for me. I hopped a plane across the Atlantic to see my baby sister in London and spend a week with my family playing tourist. But it … Continue reading

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Measurement is not a number, it’s context

Last week Ken Burbary wrote a blog post which inspired me. He talked about measuring online influence and why using a single metric or number is not the way to do it. One thing he said in particular struck a … Continue reading

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What is it that binds us to this place as to no other?

I wrote this post last year on a trip back to my old stomping grounds. Today marks three years since the passing of an amazing Tar Heel and friend, and I can’t think of any better way to honor her … Continue reading

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Five Challenges to Social Media Measurement: Why There’s Hope Yet

On Sunday, Ad Age published  a blog post with five reasons why digital and social media are so difficult to measure. While I applaud the insights and validity of these points, it was a bit…depressing. I wanted to go back … Continue reading

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Building relationships with influencers is anything but lazy

Last week, Mark Evans wrote a blog post about influencers. He claims that they make us lazy. Not just the existence of social media influencers, but rather the use of these online influencers as third-party spokespersons for a brand or … Continue reading

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We get it. Search is king. So how do we measure it?

With the release of the 11th annual Edelman Trust Barometer, it has never been more clear to me that search is no longer the future. Search is already king. We probably should have seen this coming when “to Google” officially … Continue reading

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I think I work to live

The more I think about what my goals are for the next year, five years and beyond, the more I’ve discovered that I think I may be a “work to live” person. If we’ve met in real life, if you … Continue reading

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