Mon.Jul 11, 2011

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5 Must Have Social Media & Productivity Chrome Extensions

Jason Yormark

Over the past year I’ve really worked at giving a variety of web browsers a fair shake at becoming my go to browser for every day use. I’ve used the major players such as IE , Firefox , Chrome , Safari , and even gave RockMelt a spin ( see here for my review of that platform ). While I have found myself predominately using Chrome for a variety of reasons such as speed, performance, UI and quite frankly I love the extension platform.

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Getting Started With Vlogging

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Erica Allison. Video Blog Posts. Vlogs. Everyone seems to be doing them now. But are they doing them in the best way they could? Are there some tips out in the blogosphere that can be shared in order to make your foray into vlogging a more enjoyable, productive experience? Image: BenSpark via Flickr, CC 2.0. I say, “Yes!”. In addition to the video embedded here in the post , I’ll offer some additional tips, guidelines and rules of thumb that I’ve found to be quite helpful in my

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

Below are 5 social media must-reads that we wouldn’t want you to miss. Four C’s for Community Cultivation. By Ike Pigott I have a friend who is building a nice niche community around natural hair. While not entirely new to communications or even blogging, she was new to the concept of building an intentional audience. She asked me for suggestions, and this is what I shared with her.

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Are You Local, Global, Or Does It Matter?

Small Business Mavericks

The moment you decide to put a website online, you’ll have to make a few decisions. It doesn’t matter if your website is an extension of your off line business or if it is a standalone entity. You’ll still need to make the same decisions (an extension of an off line business may actually have a few more to make). One of the decisions you’ll have to make is whether or not your Web business is local, global, or if it even matters.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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How to Get Your Google+ Plus Posts Indexed in Google

Bill Hartzer

Google+ (also referred to as Google Plus), is the new social network by Google that is very similar to Facebook in its functionality. There are some major differences, and I definitely am liking this new social network so far. Overall, I give it a thumbs up. As you probably know by now, I am certainly a tough critic at times when it comes to search engine optimization.

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Why I Am Attending Blog World Expo 2011 Plus a 20% Off Discount Code

Kikolani

It’s that time of year again. For those who missed out on Blog World Expo in New York comes the West Coast event – Blog World Expo 2011 in Los Angeles on November 3rd – 5th. Early bird pricing is on through July 21st and you can even save an additional 20% using discount code KIKOLANI20. Why I’m Attending Blog World Expo in LA.

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The Misnomer of Social Networking

Ari Herzog

It is a fallacy to suggest social networking is about networking, opines Jeff Hurt. Identity comes first, relationship building second, and networking with the community third. Social networking sites are social identity sites. When people like a page on Facebook, answer something on Quora, recommend someone on LinkedIn or tweet something on Twitter, they do those things not because of community but because of their identity.

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The Rise and Rise of Apple Inc

Idaconcpts

The early years. In 1976, 21 year old Steve Jobs convinced computer Engineer Steve Woz Wizniak to quit his job, and together in Job’s Cupertino, CA home they began work on an inexpensive, simple to use computer. Unlike IBM and other industrial PC makers, Jobs and Wizniak wanted to focus on the consumer PC segment. The Apple I was released on April First and sold for $666.00 at the local electronics store.

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Twitter Is Random

Twist Image

I'm not very good at Twitter. I understand it. I use it. But, I just can't make it bend to my will. You have to know why you're doing something to really get the value out of it, and I've made a decision that while I love having so many people follow me on Twitter and I do love posting little snippets and thoughts that don't flesh out into ideas for clients or Blog posts or Huffington Post columns, that I'm not great at the real-time heat and action that comes from Twitter in how it has evolved.

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"Follow" Networks and The Creep Factor - Why It Isn't a Facebook Play

Stay N' Alive

As I was setting up an account for my wife to be able to post to this blog today, I created a Google+ profile for her. She knew, and will probably even use it - some day. However, there's something I just can't get passed, and that's that I'm a little creeped out by the fact that just about anyone can follow her on Google+. The stalker factor is a real risk with systems that allow follow-type relationships.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Google+, Google Apps and Your Social Graph

Proactive Report

One of the strongest reasons emerging for businesses to take a closer look at using Google+ is the integration with their other apps. HealthWorks has figured out a few ideas for healthcare organizations, and these uses could as well apply to most other businesses too. Google+ product manager Christian Oestlien says, “The business experience Google is creating should far exceed the consumer profile in terms of its usefulness to businesses.&#.

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How much time should you devote to social media?

Jeff Esposito

This is post is part of the Institutionalizing Social Media series. To see previous installments or to learn more about the series, click here. One of the biggest and more oft-debated questions in the social space is how much time a company should devote to its social media efforts. There is no blanket time allotment or suggested industry standard, so how do you decide the level and time commitment to social media that is right for your company?

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How Compendium’s Web to Post Generates Content and Community

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers. You might have read my article about a business blogging platform called Compendium. Today, I wanted to share with you a fantastic Compendium tool called, Web to Post that allows customers or clients to tell stories about your products or services. Web to Post turns your consumer’s advocacy into web content.

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Quora with video – marketing dream and user nightmare?

The Way of the Web

The value of question and answer sites has long been shared by SEO specialists in terms of linkbuilding, and to some extent in social media for relevant traffic. But Quora may have just gone a step further in terms of allowing marketing material to be provided in answers. The site is now embedding Youtube videos in answers, and converting any previous links to Youtube videos into the embedded version.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Book More Business

ProBlogger

I’m blessed to get to talk with really smart people, like bestselling author and world class speaker, Michael Port. Michael sat down with me and talked about how to drive more business. We did it for Kitchen Table Companies , a place where small business owners can go and get business advice and find many more interviews and tools to help with your business.

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Implications of the News of the World phone hacking…

The Way of the Web

There’s obviously been a lot of in-depth intelligent analysis of the demise of the News of the World due to the phone-hacking outcry. So rather than attempt to add to that, I just wanted to throw three quick thoughts out there: People still read print newspapers? Recent research has claimed around 50% of the UK population no longer read a daily paper, and that number is only growing – the demographic for the News of the World is likely to be one which embraces smartphones as later ad

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Cartoon of the day

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5,867 Words on Becoming a Conversion Machine: A Guide for Bloggers

Viper Chill

June was the first time in the history of this site where the blog gained over 1,000 subscribers in a month. To be specific, the final increase count was just over 1,300. Even though I’m posting as infrequently as I ever have, traffic levels are at their highest, and the blog is converting visitors into subscribers better than ever before. I’m not saying this to brag, but to show that the changes I’ve slowly been implementing are having a big effect here, and I want to share th

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Google+ vs Facebook: A Turf War? [Infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet Searching the web, I found this interesting infographic by Technobombs.com , which gives a feature by feature comparison of Google+ and Facebook. Everybody is talking about it at the moment, so I think it is a good idea to take a closer look at both social platforms which although enable social sharing,video chat and connecting with friends, yet have some subtle differences.

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