Tue.Oct 25, 2011

article thumbnail

How To Speak At A Conference & Raise Your Social Profile

Jason Yormark

One of my favorite parts of my job over the past year or so is having had the opportunity to participate in speaking engagements at conferences and local business chapters. In addition to helping me add credibility to what I do, I’ve been able to connect with people offline, and create additional opportunities for myself and my firm. While I’m not an “expert” by any means when it comes to securing these opportunities, there are a few steps I’ve taken that have helped me do so that I thought migh

article thumbnail

Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Most web assets from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr, Foursquare and a gazillion others appear to be free, opening floodgates of content, ranging from the genius of Wikipedia/ Ushahidi to the apparently innocuous LOLcats. The shelf life of tweets, status updates, YouTube videos and, hence, their footprints on the public memory, is dropping by the second.

Startup 204
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How To Speak At A Conference & Raise Your Social Profile

Jason Yormark

One of my favorite parts of my job over the past year or so is having had the opportunity to participate in speaking engagements at conferences and local business chapters. In addition to helping me add credibility to what I do, I’ve been able to connect with people offline, and create additional opportunities for myself and my firm. While I’m not an “expert” by any means when it comes to securing these opportunities, there are a few steps I’ve taken that have helped me do so that I thought migh

article thumbnail

The Biggest Challenge in Becoming a Social Business

Direct Marketing Observations

Why do you think some organizations struggle with becoming a social business or a social brand ? Simple as this. Relationships. They are critical to external organizationl success both at the lowest levels and the highest levels. Just as internal relationships are important in maneuvering through the maze of most Fortune 500′s and getting things done, in the digital world, especially in social media, your networks and the relationships that you have within and without , can make or break a

Travel 164
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Schmoozefest 2011 United Way Ottawa | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

310
310
article thumbnail

Stop Worrying What to Do Online

Ari Herzog

How much time do you spend seeking answers to unimportant questions? It doesn’t matter how many fans you have on your Facebook page as long as you provide relevant information and respond to their questions. It doesn’t matter how frequently you send messages on Twitter or Google+ because your friends will respond to those messages that are relevant or insightful to them and gloss over the rest.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Blogger Integrates With Google+

Small Business Mavericks

Google has said from the beginning that it plans to integrate all of its services with Google+. Well, that integration is happening right now for Blogger, the Google blogging platform. I’ve kept it no secret that I’m a fan of WordPress on your own domain name, but there are still people who would rather use Blogger as a free blogging platform.

Blogger 93
article thumbnail

Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

People today are always on the look out for new and faster ways to get their news. According the 2011 State of the Media report, not only do they want to be able to find it and get it fast, they also want to contribute to, and participate in, reporting the news. This can be a boon to PR people looking for more coverage for their stories. Opportunities to act as a citizen journalist abound.

Journal 99
article thumbnail

Introduction to Autoresponders [And How You Can Use them to Drive Traffic and Profit]

ProBlogger

Today I want to talk about a tool all bloggers treating their blogs as a business should at the very least be familiar with—and should probably be using. It’s something that has the potential to drive significant traffic to your blog in the coming years. It could also add significant profits to your blog in that time. It is a tool that can be used in a variety of ways.

List 52
article thumbnail

Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

29
article thumbnail

Social Media Automation 101

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

article thumbnail

How to Use LinkedIn to Create Unique Opportunities for Your Blog Business

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Farnoosh Brock of Prolific Living. I thought I had my social media game covered on all fronts: Twitter, check. Facebook, check. Even Skype, which I like to include as a necessary tool for connecting real-time, check-check! Until I realized that I am missing one giant piece of the puzzle, and it is not even a new kid on the block.

article thumbnail

Facts About Consumer Behaviour on Twitter [Study]

Mindjumpers

Tweet In a recent study made by Constant Contact and research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey , some useful findings have been made about Twitter users. What is especially interesting to emphasize from this study, is that people who follow brands on Twitter are more likely to both buy and recommend the products of these brands. Earlier, we have mentioned that the revenue generated by a Twitter follower is higher than cost per follower , and also referred to an infographic about what’s trending

Study 227
article thumbnail

Google Analytics Real Time Stats Preview

ProBlogger

Late last week I received an invitation to try out Google Analytics’ new Real Time Stats feature, which was announced a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure when it will be available to everyone, so thought I’d give a quick preview of it. While it is very simple I can see this being very useful also—particularly when monitoring traffic events to which you might want to be able to react quickly.

article thumbnail

Why Most Social Media Departments Fail

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A few years ago, a colleague of mine was given a tremendous responsibility to oversee the social media department at a prestigious well known NYC-based public relations firm. Less than a year later, she was sent packing up her desk, a casualty of a company that jumped into that shiny toy syndrome that people call social media. As more companies jump into social media, they, too, hear that “social media departments don’t execute” which results in the failure of a social media de

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

It’s About Response, Not Engagement

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Jeff Molander , Author of the new book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You. and adjunct professor, Loyola University Business School. He blogs at www.offthehookblog.com. We’re all listening, engaging, sharing, posting, updating. But with what business outcome in mind? When we say engagement, might we really mean “prolonged attention?