Sat.Sep 17, 2011 - Fri.Sep 23, 2011

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

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Below are 5 social media must-reads that we wouldn’t want you to miss. Study: Auto-Posting to Facebook Decreases Likes and Comments by 70%. By Josh Constine Facebook Pages that automatically publish content to the news feed through third-party apps such as HootSuite, TweetDeck, and Networked Blogs receive an average of 70% fewer Likes and comments on their posts per fan, according to a new study by Applum, developer of Page tool EdgeRank Checker.

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Quit Snoozing and Wake N Shake!

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I’m one of those “morning people.” When my phone alarm goes off in the morning, I jump out of bed, ready to start the day. My internal alarm often wakes me up before my phone, to be honest. But I know many people who hate mornings more than going to the dentist. They snooze their alarms several times before actually getting up to start the day.

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Political Ads To Hit Twitter Soon, Is It Too Much?

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Twitter has been moving slowly-but-surely in to the ad business over the past year. It started with promoted topics, then promoted tweets and has started to creep in to user timelines and other places across the network. Enter politics. Political ads have graced televisions, radios, and unsuspecting suburban yards for years. Whether it’s for mayor, president, or county coroner , the messages are painted in to our brains for a good 5-6 months of every political season.

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Leave My Facebook Lists Alone

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Before I wrote a post on the new Facebook lists, I was giving them some time to marinate. I wanted to take them for a trial run before I jumped to conclusions that it was another horrible update on the Facebook Wall of Shame, as many other Facebook users have done. After testing them out for the past week, here are my findings: The Smart Lists are, in fact, smart.

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The 13 Components Of Stimulating Conversation

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Conversations opens doors online and in social spaces. While Jim Morrison’s mantra might have been “ People are Strange ”, I love people. They intrigue me. Their dreams, frustrations, pursuits and actions fascinate me. Their stories fuel and inspire me. However, reading and seeing from a distance is a spectator sport and not my cup of tea. I prefer a more direct contact sport – conversation.