Sat.Jan 14, 2012 - Fri.Jan 20, 2012

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. The launch had received a lot of positive coverage, but following the initial buzz things went quiet and Path seemed to be forgotten.

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Seven Social Media Insights on CES

Dave Fleet

By now you’ve probably had more than your fill of analysis from the many, many products and announcements revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Now that I’ve had a few days to decompress, I thought I’d do something slightly different and provide a few insights from a social perspective. CES is not a social media conference (duh).

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Social Media Stats [Infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge. It is pretty impressive to see that Facebook has grown to more than 800 million active users, adding more than 200 million (that is one fourth of the total number of users) in last year.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! Things moved at the speed of light, right? I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan. It’s not the magic pill.

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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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Search plus your world

Sherrilynne Starkie

Google is personalizing search results by including more Google+ profiles, business pages, posts, and Google+ and Picasa photos in a significant new initiative called Search plus Your World. Image via CrunchBase. It will allow each user to surface content that has been shared with him or her on Google+ along with information that has been shared publicly integrated into typical Web search results.

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The Lost Art Of Hard Work

Jason Yormark

I admire those that work their asses off. Surprisingly it’s a rare trait. I’ve come across far more individuals that do not give it everything they’ve got then do. For the past year and a half I’ve watched my wife transform her body through diet, working out, running all kinds of races and Tae Kwon Do. She’s an absolute warrior when it comes to fitness, and it was a decision she made to work incredibly hard to achieve her fitness goals.

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How Often Should I Post On Facebook for My Business?

The Social Media Incubator

Posting too frequently on social media sites can annoy friends and followers, but if you’re not posting often enough, you might be missing your chance to stay top-of-mind to your target audience. If you’re the administrator for a company’s Facebook page , do you know how often you should be posting? According to Social Media Strategist Caroline Melberg , the convergence between Twitter and Facebook continues. “The half-life of a Facebook post is now 3.2 hours, and the new

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Martin Luther King and Social Media: 5 #MLKDay Must-Reads

Firebelly

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day today, here are 5 posts related to MLK and social media. 4 Social Media Strategy Ideas From Martin Luther King Jr. By Martin Cooney & Chris Pahor Today we can look back at the characteristics which made Martin Luther King Jr so influential and apply them to business practices on social media in a modern age.

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Anatomy Of A Blog Redesign: Meet The Standard WordPress Theme

Jason Yormark

I have to admit, I’m a WordPress theme junkie. I’m fascinated with the art of blog design, and I often find myself spending too much time browsing some of the industry leading WordPress theme sites. My personal favorite site these days is certainly Themeforest as they have a tremendous variety of themes available. I’m also guilty of growing bored with my theme design on about a yearly basis.

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Facebook Launches Open Graph Apps

Mindjumpers

Tweet At a press event yesterday, Facebook announced that they will go ahead with the extension of the Open Graph. This entails that 60 social apps are going live on Facebook, including Foursquare, Airbnb, eBay, Runkeeper and TripAdvisor among others. The apps are part of Facebook’s Open Graph revamp already unveiled at F8 September last year. Actions and gestures were expected to be the next tool in the Facebook arsenal after the social plugins.

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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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Attack of the Consumer! The Many Ways Consumers Can Put You Out of Business Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post by David Rodnitzky. Having the best prices and largest selection of products means nothing on the Internet if you don’t back it up with incredible customer service. Treat customers badly and you will be out of business – period! Bad customer service will get you banned from major advertising networks, skewered in organic results, and ridiculed on social networks.

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Top 15 Facebook Marketing Obstacles

Firebelly

Businesses are rushing into social spaces – with Facebook being among their top interests. This isn’t surprising to me. Facebook is massive. And it continues to grow – size and engagement wise. According to a recent comScore study, 90% of all social media time is spent in Facebook. According eMarketer, 93% of people expect brands to have a presence on Facebook.

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Internal Social Networks Versus Social Networks-Where Should You Spend Your Time?

Direct Marketing Observations

The tug-o-war for your time when you participate on multiple social networks can be difficult. Who get’s it and who doesn’t? Who get’s the honor of your participation can also affect your impact because THAT will be where you spend the bulk of your time. Where should you spend your time? On the networks that matter to you or on the networks where you HAVE to participate?

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Who Should Own Social Media?

Mindjumpers

Tweet Once companies dive into the social media pool, there are some important nitty gritties that demand a lot of attention. One of them is which department should own social media? Is social media messaging, monitoring and responding a part of marketing and communication teams or is there a need for cross department integration? At this moment, companies are still testing waters.

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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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The Strangest Protest I Ever Took Part In

Waxing UnLyrical

If you’re a regular WUL reader, you may have noticed that this blog went dark yesterday. I used the SOPA Strike plugin to do so (after testing it as well as a couple of others). So if you were here yesterday, you’ll remember the splash page that told you why we were dark and which asked you to join the protest. Now, I’m not your typical “striker” (though you’ve probably figured that out by now).

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3 Tips to Use QR Codes For Information, Not Destination

Convince & Convert

QR codes ask a lot of prospective users. Possess a smart phone. Download a QR reader app (or other format like Microsoft TAG). Have the phone nearby and usable when you encounter a QR code (easy in a magazine ad, perhaps less so for QR codes now appearing on highway billboards). Be motivated enough to actually perform behaviors 1-3. While nifty, QR codes are often not the easiest and most convenient method of information retrieval, and when utilized to convey data that could be more seamlessly d

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4 iPhone Apps for Twitter

Idaconcpts

It seems that no matter what site gets developed for a specific Internet browser or for a given operating system, there will always be some hot shot programmer out there that will find their niche by making it a better mousetrap. These four iPhone apps have scrupulously gleaned the missing pieces and dropped balls of Twitter’s architecture to find their own place in the shadows of Twitter’s success story.

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Are Google+ Business Pages Replacing Facebook Pages?

Janet Fouts

I speak a lot about Google+ as a tool for business. In fact I’ve just written a book called “ Google+ for Business Tweet ” and I’m presenting a second Focus.com Roundtable in February. So you might think my position would be that Google+ is the be-all end-all social media network for business and people should be pitching their blogs and Facebook pages out the window in favor of Google+.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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On Youth, Age, and Community Service

Waxing UnLyrical

This past Thursday, I happened to be driving in the afternoon. As I typically do when I’m driving, I tuned into NPR. “Tell Me More” was on, and I caught part of the conversation on President Obama’s proposal to regulate home health care workers. This is not a political post, nor is it one on home health care. One of the guests was a lady by the name of Nicole Lee , who hired a home care worker for her father after he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

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The Power of Transparent Marketing to Rock Your Business in 2012 and Beyond

Convince & Convert

Guest post by Marcus Sheridan. Marcus passionately speaks and writes about business and marketing on his blog, The Sales Lion. Make sure to download his popular, 230-page FREE eBook—“ Inbound and Content Marketing Made Easy”. ‘Transparency’. Ahh yes, one of the most over-used words, yet under-utilized actions, in our society today. News stations, despite their incessant claims, aren’t close to being transparent.

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Using Google+ Hangouts to Get More Exposure for Your Google+ Business Page

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Kevin Lau. It’s still the early days for Google+ and plenty of people are getting to grips with the various tools this social platform has. This is even truer for business users, who have only recently been able to set up business pages to help promote their work. One of the main features Google+ has to offer is Google+ Hangouts.

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Introducing The Monday Muse: Your Weekly Dose of Social Media Inspiration

Ari Herzog

Whatever your reason for reading my blog, I thank you. My ideas on new and emerging media come from many places — and people comprise a large part of my inspiration. I want to share those people with you. I want to share my muses with you. Beginning Monday, January 23, 2012, you will be treated to a weekly question-and-answer interview with someone who inspires me.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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MeasurePR Enters 2012

Waxing UnLyrical

Last week we held the first #measurePR chat of 2012. Having taken a nice break over the holidays, it was great to be back with some familiar faces, er, Twitter handles, and some new ones too… we love new people! Seeing as how some of us (cough, me, cough) were still easing into the new year, we didn’t have a special guest. So the chat was a community chat or, as I like to call them, a fireside chat.

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Social Media Success May Depend on HR

Convince & Convert

Guest post written by Mark W. Schaefer. Mark is a consultant, college educator, and author who blogs at {grow}. There is a growing gap between the social media “haves” and “have-nots.” Some companies I visit have embraced social media enthusiastically and are moving into some pretty advanced ideas. Other companies are simply checking the box.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Timescapes

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, 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 / Writing. 5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog?

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How Often Should I Post On Facebook for My Business?

The Social Media Incubator

Posting too frequently on social media sites can annoy friends and followers, but if you’re not posting often enough, you might be missing your chance to stay top-of-mind to your target audience. If you’re the administrator for a company’s Facebook page , do you know how often you should be posting? According to Social Media Strategist Caroline Melberg , the convergence between Twitter and Facebook continues. “The half-life of a Facebook post is now 3.2 hours, and the new

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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Am I participating in the SOPA strike? You betcha!

Janet Fouts

On January 18 websites all over the net will go dark from 8AM to 8 PM, and this will be one of them. Why? Well for one, because I still can. One of the most powerful things about the internet is that it is largely not controlled by government. Sure, I’m against piracy, but not if it means DNS filtering that could actually penalize lawful businesses.

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World Premiere of “La Casa del Ritmo, A Film About Los Amigos Invisbles”

Idaconcpts

Dear readers of idaconcpts.com, With great pleasure I share with an awesome update on La Casa del Ritmo , A film about Los Amigos Invisibles. I first wrote about this project back in February 2011 and I was very happy to support this project. I just got news that the world premiere of this amazing documentary will happen this March 2012 at the Miami International Film Festival.

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Introducing The Monday Muse: Your Weekly Dose of Social Media Inspiration

Ari Herzog

Whatever your reason for reading my blog, I thank you. My ideas on new and emerging media come from many places — and people comprise a large part of my inspiration. I want to share those people with you. I want to share my muses with you. Beginning Monday, January 23, 2012, you will be [.] Thank you for reading! If you are inspired to add a comment with your thoughts, please visit Introducing The Monday Muse: Your Weekly Dose of Social Media Inspiration in your browser.

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Should You Consider A Multilingual Website?

Small Business Mavericks

One mistake that many website owners make is to assume that every customer speaks English. In the U.S., the predominant language is English so a website in English is natural. There are, however, over 28 million people who speak Spanish as a first language. That’s almost 13% of the U.S. population. The question then is whether or not to create an online presence published in two or more languages.

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Is Google+ About To Make Facebook Frown?

Twist Image

It's time to pay attention to Google+. Back in July, I Blogged about Google 's foray into online social networking, Google+ (more here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). At the time, the majority of the discourse surrounding Google+ was about whether or not it would be able to compete in a Facebook world. Back in July, Facebook had 750 million registered users and just last week it was announced that it is on course to hit one billion users by August of this year.

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