Tue.Apr 05, 2011

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New Photo-sharing App Called “Color”. The Next Big Thing?

Mindjumpers

Tweet. Recently, the new social networking photo sharing app called Color was launched. After only 24 hours, Color already had hundred of articles dedicated to it – and still it’s gaining a lot of attention, but also criticism. However, a part of this might be caused by the fact that the company received $41 million in pre-launch venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

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Turning Marketing Measurement on its Head

Waxing UnLyrical

Last week Seth Duncan of Beyond stopped by the #measurePR Twitter chat to talk about something I thought was very intriguing. Instead of always talking about what PR can learn from marketing analytics, what if we asked what marketing can learn from PR measurement? Pretty radical, eh? Seth and I had been brainstorming ideas for the chat, and when he suggested this one, I said to myself, “Bingo!

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100 Greatest Hits Of YouTube

Firebelly

Since Tuesday is the unhappiest day of the week , I thought I’d lighten things up and make sure this YouTube Tuesday video was a fun one. Below is a video that condenses the 100 Greatest Hits of YouTube into about 3 minutes. We humans are an interesting bunch! Are any of your favorites missing? [Video URL: [link] ].

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You know what Twitter needs to Fix?

Direct Marketing Observations

I know, it’s a loaded question but it’s simple really. It’s the one area that needs attention and really hasn’t received much of it. See if you can figure out. I apologize for using my page as the example. The Bio section. If we’ve been saying that numbers don’t matter and that it’s all about quality and not quantity, then that notion pretty much renders alot of what you see on the bio section as useless.

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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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The “Social Media Certificate” – Smart Move or Scam?

Webbiquity SMM

A growing number of community colleges, vocational schools, online universities, technical colleges and even big-name universities are now offering social media certificate programs (Google this if you like, I don’t want to legitimize any of them with a link). It’s understandable why the purveyors offer them—unemployment is high, social media is a hot topic, the federal government is still willing to spend our great-great-grandchildren’s future taxes on questionable education g

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2011 Q1 Review: SocialFish clients and work

SocialFish

It’s time for our quarterly recap of what we’ve been working on. Here’s a review of what we’ve been up to in the first quarter of 2011. Busy as usual! STRATEGY WORK –We have clients who come to us at a stage where they understand the tools, they see the benefits, and they need help defining a social media strategy for their organization.

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Spy on Your Facebook Competitors with HyperAlerts

Convince & Convert

The great thing about companies widely publishing APIs in this age of collaboration is that crafty third-parties can develop tools and features that the developers of the “mother ship&# forgot. Browse through Laura Fitton’s amazing One Forty (the app store Twitter neglected to build) and you’ll find thousands of Twitter add-ons. But now that Twitter is clamping down on API access and trying to have their cake and eat it too, the next frontier for API-driven frosting is on Faceb

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3 Steps to a Productive Life on Twitter as a Blogger Using Buffer

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Leo Widrich. One of the most important things I discovered is to manage my time efficiently on Twitter. Otherwise I would spend hours and hours without getting anything else done. Recently I have started to use Buffer , a super simple Twitter tool which helps you to breathe a little easier by keeping my followers posted all day long.

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How to Remove Google Personalization from Google Search Results

Bill Hartzer

Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable wrote an interesting post about Google personalization and a little-known Google feature. There is a way to turn off the Google search results’ personalization feature by appending “&pws=0″ to the Google search results URL. I recall removing personalization in the search results several years ago, and keep having to use this Google feature over and over again.

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The ONLY Way To Manage Your Twitter Account

Small Business Mavericks

About Us What’s a Maverick? Community Involvement Affiliations Join Our Team Media Kit 1 on 1 Strategic Planning Website Health Check-up Website Design, Development & Promotion Social Media Services Social Media Step-by-Step Webinar Customized Social Media Road Map Social Media Implementation Online Marketing Services SEO / Web Promotion Online Reputation Management PPC / Google Adwords Blog Customization & Set-up Service Article Marketing Press Releases & Publicity eZine Customization & Set-up

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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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Treat Your Community With Respect - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Engage with your audience. We all hear it all the time. Engaging with your audience is the core in Social Media. Keeping your Community engaged on Facebook for instance is what matters the most. While it sounds easy, many a times it could be the most difficult task for some. Engagement essentially means involving, getting the audience to interact and gently leading to a conversational mode.

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Using Interactive Media in Email Marketing

Social Email Marketing

Just in case you haven’t heard, there’s a lot you can do with “web 2.0” in your email marketing. It’s not just about text, photos/graphics and links. Today you have a range of possibilities where interactive and multimedia is concerned. Video If you’ve got good, relevant and engaging video content.

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All Acquisitions, All the Time

Net-Savvy Executive

Here we go again. Before the discussion about the Radian6 acquisition had time to settle down, there's another acquisition. This time, it's KANA Software and Overtone , in a combination that's all about integrating customer service and analytics. If you're trying to keep up with all the moves, remember that I keep an acquisitions scorecard over at SMA.

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Identifying and Engaging Influencers Where Social Media and Email Integrate

Social Email Marketing

How do you determine an influencer in the social media world? What do you do with these influencers once you have identified them? Many monitor online influencers using parameters like Klout, the number of Twitter followers, etc. But, is that relevant? Maybe the answer lies in a combination of.

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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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Do You Have these 4 Unrealistic Expectations of Blogging?

ProBlogger

Earlier in the year I surveyed a small segment of ProBlogger readers on their blogging experiences as a way of keeping in touch with the needs of readers. I asked a variety of questions, but the answers to one particular question stood out to me like a sore thumb, because I saw the same themes emerging again and again. The question asked bloggers to think about the unrealistic expectations that they had when they started blogging.

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Email Vendor Features and Functions Guide: Differences Between Email Vendors Bigger Than Expected

Social Email Marketing

This week the European Email Vendor Features and Functions Guide is released, the second part of the guide that offers side-by-side comparison of in total 53 ESPs worldwide. The first worldwide edition of John Caldwell's guide In a collaboration between our friend John Caldwell's Red Pill Email and.

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Blog Monetization Outside the Box

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site. Someone once told me that the only way to make money with a blog is to sell massive amounts of text links. “There’s no other way,” he said, and he was resolute in his opinion. I couldn’t change his mind, so I just listened and nodded my head. I didn’t bother to argue, even though I knew he was wrong.

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Dela Quist: unlocking the branding power of email marketing

Social Email Marketing

A problem email marketers have is that every time they send an email it’s got to be perfect. Everyone has to open, click and buy for success and if one person doesn’t it’s because we weren’t relevant. So, if you send more email are you not reducing the need for each individual email to be.

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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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Evil Plans – a video review

Jeff Esposito

This post contains video, if you can’t view, please click here. Between SXSW and my shoulder surgery, I have been delayed in creating video reviews of the books that I have read. So today, the first delayed review is of Hugh MacLeod’s Evil Plans. The book was a quick read and really good for inspiration and offering the why not when coming up with a killer idea and executing it.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

Image GapingVoid.

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