Tue.Nov 29, 2011

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 3: Combine Talent To Deliver Business Value

SocMed Sean

In the first two articles in this series, I talked about how my experience and real-life connections were important elements in getting a job interview and, eventually, an offer for a position as Senior Manager of Social Media Strategy for a digital agency here in Kansas City. For the last 18 months, I have had the pleasure of leading a team of outstanding social media talent with a broad range of backgrounds and skills.

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Social Media Marketing POV: Top Three Topics for Your Blog

Firebelly

The goal: get people to read your blog posts. While blogging acts as an integral SEO tool, your blog will have to engage readers to get them to leave a comment, share it or come back. Getting started can be awkward but there are a few tricks to finding some good topics to blog about. My editor, mentor and buddy ol’ pal, Erik Deckers , taught me to ask new clients questions with numbers to pull out some blog ideas.

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Google Waves Goodbye To Wave…Should They Do The Same To Google+?

SocMed Sean

This morning I received a very cute email in my Inbox from Google. This is what it said: Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave.

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How to Hire Your SEO Partner

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post by Brad Schorr. Hiring an SEO specialist is one of the most important decisions you will make in your pursuit of online marketing success. It is also one of the most perplexing. There are two enormous issues with search engine optimization that hinder your ability to zero in on the right partner: Rapidly changing, constantly evolving rules.

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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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Shanan & Kate’s Excellent QR Code Adventure

Waxing UnLyrical

Okay, our adventure wasn’t as thrilling as traveling the Circuits of Time in a phone booth with George Carlin, but it was educational none-the-less. This Fall the University at which I work hosted a career fair, cramming booth-after-booth of employers looking for new recruits into the main gymnasium. It was a great opportunity for students to explore their options and a fun way for Kate (my colleague) and I to see how some organizations are using QR Codes.

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Facebook Account Security Flaw: Sites Auto Posting on Users’ Facebook Walls Without Permission

Bill Hartzer

Even after leaving Facebook.com, a serious flaw in Facebook ‘s account security allows any website to post and “Like” a page without the user’s knowledge or permission. Simple JavaScript code that is freely available, placed on any web page, will automatically “Like” a URL and post about it on Facebook Users’ walls without their permission or knowledge.

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The Cynical Side Of SEO

Small Business Mavericks

Ask Aaron Wall who’s taking over the Web and it seems as if he is saying it’s Wal-Mart. He makes some good points in this post, but there was one paragraph that really stood out. In the meantime, I expect Google to keep increasing search complexity such that it’s prohibitively expensive to make & market a small independent commercial website.

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Breaking All Of Twitter's Rules

Twist Image

Is there a sure-fire way to be successful using Twitter ? Business books, Blog posts, magazine articles, tumblr feeds, newspaper articles, TV news segments and yes, even tweets, have been written about what it takes for both individuals and brands to be successful on Twitter. Allow me to sum up some of the more commonly-held recommendations for Twitter success: Get in early.

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PUBLIC SPEAKERS, TAKE NOTE…I DID!

Myrland Marketing

Do you give presentations as a part of your business? Do you want to give presentations as a part of your business? If you answered yes to either of these questions, one of these thoughts has probably come to mind: I love to speak. I hate to speak. I want to love to speak. I want to learn how to speak [.].

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The Best Piece Of Business Travel Advice

Twist Image

I use one particular technique/tactic that makes business travel all that much more palpable. It's also a technique I rarely see mentioned anywhere. It has nothing to do with the type of luggage to use (but, for the record, you should use either the Eagle Creek Tarmac 22 or the Eagle Creek Traverse Pro 22 ), how to pack (use the Eagle Creek Pack-It System , how to accumulate air mile points or how to get entry into the lounge.

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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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For Your Social Media Should You Be On Facebook Or Google+

Social Media Network Marketing

Google+ is the most talked about Social Media Platform today. There are questions like will Facebook do anything to face the Google+ syndrome that all are going though. Currently Facebook is being compared to Google+. Google brought out the Google+ Pages for Brands and Business Houses. The question most likely asked is if you are already on Facebook then why should you be on Google+.

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5 Ways I Kill Two Birds With One Stone and Generate Ideas for Blog Posts

ProBlogger

I love making the one piece of work pay off multiple times. One of the ways I do this is by turning other activities that I do into blog posts. Here’s five ways I’ve done it recently. 1. Live streaming video sessions. If I find myself with a spare half hour to fill in, one of the activities that I’ll sometimes engage in is a live video streaming session on Ustream.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

In my post on how to become a niche rockstar I said that in order to be at the top of your industry (in a lot of cases online) it’s important to know as much about it as possible. What your competitors are doing, how they’re making money and how they’re getting traffic are just a few things that you can discover with some in-depth niche research.

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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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Anatomy of Facebook: The World is Getting Smaller! [Study]

Mindjumpers

Tweet Last week, Facebook released two studies made in collaboration with researchers at the Università degli Studi di Milano. In the first study, they measured how many friends people have, and found that this distribution differs significantly from previous studies. And in the second, they measured the number of connections between people. Both of the studies show that Facebook, as a social network is both global and local – it connects people who are far apart, but also enables connecti

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Charles Darwin’s 12 Rules of Blogging Survival

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Tom Treanor of the Business Blogging Telesummit. Blog readers have a myriad of reading options for almost every topic you can think of. In fact, within your niche, potential customers may be enjoying blog posts written by your competitors while they ignore your blog like the plague. So what do you do about this dire situation? Do you hire ghost writers to create more content?

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Infographic: 5 Companies That Are Rocking Social Media

Social Media Marketing

This infographic was created by Voltier Digital , a content marketing agency based in Florida, specializing on the creation and promotion of impactful content marketing campaigns for businesses of all sizes. We all know the usual names of companies that are doing well in social media. I thought it might be interesting to take a look at some of the lesser-knowns and why they've had success, either on an ongoing basis or with some one-off efforts that stood out.

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