Fri.Nov 09, 2012

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Social Networking Stats: Tumblr Serves 20 Billion Page Views Per Month, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. Twitter: over 500 million users. via Twopcharts. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 368 million users. via China Daily. Renren: over 170 million users. via iResearch iUser Tracker. LinkedIn: 187 million active users. via LinkedIn.

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Next Web Knickers in a Knot Over Time Honored PR Pay-for-Play

Socialized

As if breaking open a social media Watergate, The Next Web reports "a small storm rocked the ever tense relationship between tech blogs and the PR industry today, when TechCrunch revealed that one firm was charging a specific amount to clients it successfully got covered there." But what stuns me.

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Why Obama Won: A Gallery of Presidential Likeability

Idaconcpts

a. Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…. — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012. Why Obama Won: A Gallery Of Presidential Likeability from Rohit Bhargava.

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Social and News Media: More than Simply Cross Promotion

Convince & Convert

Jodi Gersh, Gannett Company @jodiontheweb. Jodi Gersh , Director of Social Media at Gannett Company , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss advertisers and sponsorship in the news media world, slowly moving many media giants up the “social” ladder, and the value of using social internally for enterprise solutions. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the full podcast.

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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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Ten “Boring” PR Skills You Need to Have

Social Media Strategery

A few weeks ago, I was talking to some college students about PR, advertising, living in Chicago, and the work I'm doing at C-K. They loved hearing about the work that we've done with Corona, Porsche , and Cedar Fair. We talked about branding, TV commercials, media tours, and social media. By the end of our conversation, they were all telling me that I had their dream job and were asking me if we had any openings.

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3 Qualities Of Evergreen Content

Small Business Mavericks

Evergreen content is content that never goes out of fashion. It is not trendy. It is not here today, gone tomorrow. It has value that will remain for a long time. As its name suggests, evergreen content is content that will always be in demand. So what does it look like exactly? And how do you produce it? Here are 3 important qualities that your content needs in order to be considered evergreen: Intrinsic and lasting value – The value of your content must exist in the content itself.

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6 Practices to Overcome Your Fears of Playing Bigger

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Tara Wagner of TheOrganicSister.com. Playing bigger. Putting yourself out there. What others will think? Not being good enough. Most bloggers have had to face those fears at same point. Dreams and goals tend to bring up our ugly stories after all. Being a life coach who works primarily with women looking to overcome fears, blocks, beliefs, and barriers is what I do.

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Don't Follow Your Passion

Twist Image

That's not a typo: don't follow your passion. It may be appealing and something that you think you should do to be successful (and it's something that many career counselors will tell us), but it could well be the worst career advice ever. Cal Newport wants to know what makes people truly love the work that they do. He took this question and turned it into a brand new book, So Good They Can't Ignore You (full disclosure: Newport is signed to the same publishing imprint as I am).

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Weekend Project: Take a Blogging Retreat

ProBlogger

As bloggers, we all face challenges. They might be as big as expanding our blog beyond a five-figure income. Or they might be ongoing, like the challenges of finding post ideas, or clearly defining our niches. Image courtesy stock.xchng user SSPIVAK. And we look for answers wherever we can: on our favorite blogs, in ebooks and whitepapers, at meetups, on social media, in our networks and with our contacts.

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Epic names, Fear Tactics and the F Word

Jeff Esposito

Instead of a normal witty (or attempted witty) opening to Five for Friday , I’d like to start this week’s edition noting how shocked I am at the continued damage and loss due to Hurricane Sandy. Knowing my family and others are without bare necessities and/or power saddens me. I hope that you can find it in your heart in some way to donate some funds to the Red Cross to help with the relief efforts.

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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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Best WordPress Plugins for Business

Akamai Marketing

I’m breaking a rule, because I am a wild and crazy rebel. This month’s “Tool Tuesday” is going out on Friday. WHOOP. Do I know how to party or what? I just couldn’t help myself. Last night’s Blogging for Business Class at Pacific New Media was ridiculously awesome. Another action-packed evening with great questions!

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Moving Forward From My "Mormon Moment"

Stay N' Alive

As some of you may be aware, I have spent the last, almost 3 years, helping to grow Social Media in what some have perceived as very much a pioneering role for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Consulting for them for years before, I started just over a year after Barack Obama was elected and Mitt Romney had lost the Primaries to John McCain, myself being perhaps the first person at the Church with the word "Social" in their title.

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Mobile: Give Your Customers That Something Extra

Mindjumpers

The SoLoMo revolution within social media interaction has previously been covered here on the blog. What is so important about it, is the opportunity of direct interaction with potential or already dedicated customers in a sphere that mixes virtual and real life, posing great opportunity for sales increasing engagement. Recently, we took a look at Carlsberg’s non-branded mobile app, Crowdit , which is a great example of how brands can provide their customers with a relevant service without stuff

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & A Slow Loris

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. The Ultimate Guest Posting Target Blog List – Knowing that you should be guest posting on major blogs is one thing, but finding those target blogs is entirely

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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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From Social to Local to Mobile

Direct Marketing Observations

You don’t know this but you are really driving the train. By your actions of buying smart phones at an alarming rate, by snapping up tablets like they’re going out of style, you have made it known to retailers that these are the new weapons of not only commerce, but online commerce as well. Retailers and advertisers and marketers used to be able to dictate and call the shots and we as consumers responded like we were pavlov’s favorite dogs.

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Cool stuff I learned this week

Janet Fouts

I’ve been meaning to do posts like this to share some of my favorite bloggers and top stories, but somehow I never actually get it done. ( Lazy blogger! ). There are so many great posts out there and lots of top stories and new tools to explore too, so here’s the short version of what I learned this week. By the way, we’ll be talking about these things and much more in our weekly Google+ hangout, so come by The Friday Hangout and add your voice to the conversation.