Fri.Apr 22, 2011

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Danish Startup ‘Podio’ Keeps Store in San Francisco [interview]

Mindjumpers

Tweet The Danish startup Podio – often referred to as ‘Facebook for the workplace’ – has crossed the borders of Denmark. The official launch of Podio happened a bit differently by the company setting up a Podio store in San Francisco. From this store Podio would make people aware of their existence by targeting them on the street, hosting workshops and conferences in the store and letting people network etc.

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Is social media territorial? Should it be?

Direct Marketing Observations

I was walking the dog the other night and watched as he “marked&# his territory and naturally I thought about the natural Tug-o-War that occurs with social. The desire for different departments wanting to own the “rights&# to social media. Why do you think that is? Look at how strongly some people feel about the subject! Danny Wong , the co-founder and Lead Evangelist for Blank Label says that PR should own social media because that department knows “what the appropriate messages ar

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Change Before Mediocrity Grows on You

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Shakirah Dawud. Changing won’t be easy. You know this, so you’ll spend the entire process weighing the pros and cons, predicting whether this is something you “really need” or just a lark. You’ll wonder whether it’s a change you can “live with” (or what, I wonder?) and what other people will think. You’ll stall for all those reasons, pretending you’re still thinking about it when really you’re avoiding the thought of it the way you would a plague-infested rat.

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3 Great Weekly Social Media Podcasts

Firebelly

Podcasts aren’t nearly as common as they used to be, or maybe I just haven’t noticed them as much. A few years ago with the ever-growing popularity of the iPod and iTunes, it seemed like everyone with an Internet connection and a microphone tried to start their own podcast. Many of them have now bit the dust. In fact, when researching podcasts for this article, it was tough to find quality podcasts that have an episode more recent than 2008.

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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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3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

Empire Avenue is the new game in town. It sits squarely in the social networking space, but it has a different twist - one from which I think businesses may be able to gain valuable insights, all while allowing people to enjoy themselves. What is it? Essentially, it is a rewards system that makes what we already do on the web - create and share content - fun by making it a stock market-like atmosphere.

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6 Documentaries To Get Your Creative Marketing Juices Flowing

Twist Image

Creative inspiration can come from anywhere. For the past long while, my most creative inspiration has come from watching documentaries. There are six, in particular, that really stick out in my mind, and here they are in alphabetical order. - Art & Copy. " It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time - people who've profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry.

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Email Marketing and Social: review of Alterian’s “Extending Email to Social Networks”

Social Email Marketing

Email and social marketing are not competing channels. They are simply two of the many channels which consumers now travel in. They share a fundamental power to bring people together in communities and nurture and grow those communities via quick and easy communication. The sooner you shake off the.

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Shakespeare on Blogging

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Leanne of IronicMom.com. Although Shakespeare wouldn’t have known words like Twitter, social media, and blogging, he no doubt would’ve embraced these new terms. After all, he coined an estimated 1700 words and had a lot of fun playing with language. But what do you get when you take Shakespeare’s words out of context and apply them to blogging?

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Email versus Social Research: a Useless Debate

Social Email Marketing

Over the past year proponents of email marketing have been on the defensive a great deal. Challenges from both social media advocates and half-baked pundits suggesting that email is on the way out, have put a real burr under the saddle of email marketing people. I’m frankly tired of the entire.

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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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Five blogs that you should be reading

Jeff Esposito

Fridays are typically a day where I share the five best articles that I read in a given week. While I would love to continue that tradition this week, I have spent more time changing diapers than sharing and digesting links and articles so I decided to share with you five blogs that you should be reading. Before you roll your eyes and say sheesh another list post or grumble at adding more real estate and clutter to your RSS reader, take a step back and answer these questions.

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Landing Page Conversion Optimization Tips: Think Like a Really Good Salesperson

Social Email Marketing

Unless you’ve been off the planet for a while, you’ve probably heard a lot of talk about how important landing page optimization is to increasing conversions on your website. With the power of email, search and, yes, even social, in driving so much traffic, having landing pages which are rich in.

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Cartoon of the day

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StrongMail: Daily Deal Sites Cause Growth of Email Delivery Server Customers

Social Email Marketing

StrongMail yesterday issued a press release, announcing “a significant increase in customers for its burst email delivery technology” (Email Delivery Server).

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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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History Repeats – Facebook is the new AOL

Convince & Convert

My piece of a panel discussion on trends at SocialSlam in Knoxville, Tennessee a great event put together by my friend Mark W. Schaefer. History Repeats: AOL, Facebook, and Castles of Data. View more presentations from Jay Baer. Starting in 1992, America Online (AOL) spent more than $300 million sending floppy disks and later CDs to U.S. households, to entice citizens to sign up for their dial-up Internet connection service.

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Extending email to social networks

Social Email Marketing

Email and social are not competing channels, so email marketing and social media marketing work well together too. Email and social simply are among the many channels which consumers now travel in. They share a fundamental power to bring people together in communities and nurture and grow those.

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Weekend Reading: Words Make Worlds

SocialFish

If you haven’t seen this amazing series by Shelly Alcorn of Association Subculture , please take some time this weekend to read it. Really really great stuff. Words Make Worlds – Part 1 – Association Management, Human Ecology and IPOD. Much of the corporate management theory co-opted and applied in the non-profit arena largely ignores the most profound difference between non-profit and for-profit enterprises – the shared leadership structure between volunteers and profes

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