Mon.Mar 19, 2012

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2012 Is The Year of Visual Communication

Mindjumpers

Tweet It’s a known fact that visual stimuli has a strong effect on humans, also compared to other kinds of stimuli such as reading or listening. Now, more than ever before, technology has made it easier to take part in visual storytelling with online communities. Much indicate that 2012 is the year where visual communication in social media will get its boom for real – Facebook’s Timeline is focused heavily on photos and visual storytelling, Instagram keeps making it easier to take, design and s

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Social Media Policy Should Not Be Driven by Corporate Counsel

Socialized

Subhead: Don't kill all the lawyers. Just leave them out of the social media review process. Todd Defren writes about the role of lawyers in enabling social media in the corporation. His headline, Kill All The Lawyers, takes the position "the bigger a brand is, the more it can and should.

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My Blog Monetization Results

Jason Yormark

About a month ago I decided I wanted to test out ads on my blog to see what kind of return I would get by devoting some right sidebar space for a medium sized ad. I was a bit leery about the idea, but figured it was worth a shot seeing as my blog traffic had reached a point where I thought the return could be worth it. I decided to go with Social Spark (IZEA) since they offered a model that pays on impressions rather then click-throughs.

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Public Relations: A Defining Moment for the Profession

Waxing UnLyrical

The Public Relations Society of America has spent the past few months collaborating with other PR associations around the globe on a redefinition of the term “public relations.”. This is a task that has been championed since the late 1970s when Edward L. Bernays presented his case for a redefinition of PR in his Public Relations Quarterly (Spring 1978) article “Defining Public Relations,” observing that our profession was, in his eyes and at that time, in need of an overhaul.

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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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March Madness & Social Media: 5 Must-Reads

Firebelly

Here are 5 must-reads on March Madness (go Hooisers!) and social media that we don’t want you to miss. Kansas Jayhawks Win Social Media’s March Madness. By Sam Laird If the NCAA championship was determined by which school’s fans are most tuned in to social media, Kansas would take out Duke in the national title game. Social Media Revolutionizes March Madness “Bracketology” By Molly Ruggere NCAA March Madness has officially begun, and, you guessed it, there’s an app for th

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Four Areas that Digital Marketers Need to Continue to Focus On

Direct Marketing Observations

Should we be amazed anymore at how fast digital is moving? Honestly no. But what should we be thinking about as we watch it go by? When I was a kid and I would see a train go by, I always wanted to be on that train. I didn’t really care where it was going, I just wanted to be on it. With a little foresight and hindsight you can be on that train that we’re calling digital right now-and know where it came from and where it’s going.

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No Real Name, No Blog Comment Allowed

Ari Herzog

Riffing behind a commenting layout convention by Matt Cutts, such as his latest blog post when he wrote about giving up news consumption for a month, I’ve decided to require every blog comment here be associated with a real name. See the current screenshot below. If you don’t comment with a real name, your comment will not be published. The comment policy reflects this new change and I’m not accepting any exceptions.

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Are Small Business Blogs Still Relevant In Today’s Market Place

Small Business Mavericks

Whilst blogs and blogging has its detractors, there is no doubt that a small business blog can be a real benefit. Blogs can be an aid to both a search and social marketing campaign, however, it often helps to simplify things to gain a clearer picture. In their simplest state, blogs are communication tools. Tools that initially, appear to be only one way, however, over time, they can develop into two way communication tools.

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What Steve Taught Me

Social Media Strategery

The following is a guest post from some of the people who worked the closest with Steve over the past 4+ years at Booz Allen. His impact on the firm and individual people within the firm will be realized for many years to come. We’ve captured a few of the top lessons learned from Steve that we will carry with us in our work and life forever. Steve taught me… · …that fortune favors the bold and fearless.

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Wanna Learn Facebook Development? Check Out My New Video Series

Stay N' Alive

Facebook application development isn't just a skill, and it's not just for developers either - it's a mindset and a culture that you have to understand to truly understand and implement its value. It's something both marketers, business owners, as well as developers should understand to fully have a grasp against the competition in this increasingly social world.

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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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Building a Social Business

Koka Sexton

Last week InsideView held it’s first user conference called the Insider Summit. It was a lot of work and a bit stressful to pull it together. It all worked out and it was great to see so many customers in one place all wanting to hear the plans for InsideView and the were using Twitter to spred the news. During the conference there were about a dozen breakout sessions that fell into one of three tracks; Sales, Marketing and Social Selling.

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No a la carte TV option? Then you lose a customer

The Way of the Web

I’m a pretty big motorsport fan, and have been since I first started being taken out to circuits by my parents at the age of 3 or 4. Weekends were either spent watching bikes or mainly cars dicing at high speed on TV or standing in the cold and rain at places like Brands Hatch and Lydden Hill, and I always loved it – I dreamed of racing and still regret not having quite enough determination and focus as a kid to give it a proper try, or making more of the potential chances I had when

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Get More Comments: Know Which Posts Make Readers Talk

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Caz Makepeace of y Travel Blog. As a travel blogger, there are many different types of articles that we write. We like to help people to get inspired, get informed, and to get going. We know that not every article we write will get the same response in regards to social media sharing and comments. You really need to understand which ones will get the better responses, and why.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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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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54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom from HubSpot

Webbiquity SMM

The inbound marketing experts at HubSpot along with Jeff Ente of Who’s Blogging What have just published an outstanding collection of social media insights, 54 Pearls of Marketing Wisdom by “26 of the world’s best marketing experts.” The assembled pundits weighed in on one or more questions regarding social media strategy, mobile marketing, online content, guidance on allocating resources between social networks and more.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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