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Social marketing FAQs

What's the difference between social marketing and commercial marketing?

Although social marketing borrows many tools from commercial marketing, its aim is social good rather than profit.

As a discipline, it also draws upon social and behavioural sciences as well as social policy, along with an understanding of the environmental determinants which affect the ways in which...

Date: 2017-03-10 07:12:41
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Can social entropy theory explain social media? - matei.org

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The mathematical model of communication by Shannon and Weaver proposes that a typical communication model comprises of an information source, a transmitter, a receiver and a destination. The information source in this model has an unlimited number of messages that it can choose from, and within this theory, information refers to the ability of the source to make a choice or select a...

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What is social marketing? | The NSMC

Segmentation

Methods mix

These benchmark criteria are not just a tick-box checklist, but concepts that work together to make social marketing programmes more effective. For more information, download our� Big pocket guide to social marketing .

1: Clear behavioural goals�

Influence specific behaviours, not just knowledge, attitudes and beliefs.�

Set clear, specific, measurable and time-bound...

Date: 2017-03-10 07:30:37
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Corruption and inequality: how populists mislead people ...

With the launch of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 just five days after Donald Trump's inauguration as US President, it's timely to look at the links between populism, socio-economic malaise and the anti-corruption agenda. Indeed, Trump and many other populist leaders regularly make a connection between a "corrupt elite" interested only in enriching themselves and...

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