Sat.Jan 01, 2011 - Fri.Jan 07, 2011

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10 Social Media Lessons From Home Improvement

Dave Fleet

Tweet If we’re connected on Twitter or Facebook, you may have noticed me posting a lot about the renovations we’re currently conducting on our new house. In a brief moment of downtime, I started thinking about the social media lessons you can learn from the process of renovating a house. I came up with ten – let me know what you think of them in the comments: 1.

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Social Media Refresh Tip #2: Export Your Friends’ Contact Info

Almost Savvy

You’ve taken the job of connecting with the right people online seriously. You’ve methodically built your professional network of connections on LinkedIn. You’ve added your family, friends, old classmates and co-workers to your list of Facebook friends. This is a wonderful way to stay in touch by keeping up with status updates and photos, but what if you want to send a private email to one of your connections?

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The Next Chapter: Joining Citrix Online

Justin Levy

A little more than 2 years ago Chris Brogan and I were both attending the first Social Media Jungle event in New York so we decided to carpool down together. During those 5 hours or so of driving and over a dinner at a Chili’s in Middletown, CT later that night, we talked about a new project that he was launching. He was getting ready to unveil New Marketing Labs to the world and was close to signing the first contract which was going to be with Citrix Online (the folks who make GoToMeetin

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HOW TO: Grow your Facebook Page by 17% in 1 week!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

No this isn’t a scam or a trick to get you to buy one of my books (but please don’t let that stop you from doing so). This is a really basic technique that a number of Fan pages are still missing out on and that is … make sure your landing page for first time visitors of your page is a welcome tab that consists of a nice big arrow pointing to the like button.

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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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The New Gig: VP of Marketing & Social Media @ Strategies 360

Jason Yormark

Tweet It would take a pretty sweet opportunity for me to leave. what was a pretty good situation at Microsoft. Despite the. fact that I was unhappy with my role, with. href="[link]. size-full wp-image-358" title="Strategies360Logo". src="[link]. alt="" width="300" height="167" /> some patience, I. may have been able to eventually landed elsewhere in the. company.

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5 Ways to Market Your Online Video Successfully

Josh S Peters

If you’ve got a great online video but aren’t sure how to showcase it, you’ve come to the right place. With videos everywhere on the Internet, they’re truly the most cost-effective way to market your business. But they can also easily get lost in the shuffle. Here are some tips to attract attention and draw in your audience: 1. Keep it Simple The best way to ensure brand notoriety and engage with an audience is to keep your video shorthand sweet.

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Innovation Games and Marketing – a match made in Heaven!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As sure as you are reading this you have been in a meeting where someone whips out a spreadsheet with a list of 30 or more items on it that just seems to be “all over the place” and its clear that you are going to need to spend a lot more time than the planned 60 minutes helping them prioritize that list. What if there was a better way? Luckily there is thanks to Luke Hohmann.

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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

Tweet A little over 5 years ago I packed up the family and we trekked from Chicagoland to Seattle for a new chapter in our lives. I had been working independently for about 5 years doing web development and internet marketing and doing well enough to support the family with my wife working. When son #2 came along, she wanted to be a stay at home mom, so I had to close up shop and find something more stable.

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The Biggest Trend in 2011? Our Continued Laziness.

Direct Marketing Observations

Why do you think YouTube is the #2 search engine in thw world? Did you know that it was? Some of you might not know but are you surprised by that statement? Did you know that as of March 2010, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute? Here’s some perspective for you. Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance video has been viewed over 328 million times since it’s release.

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What Happens On Social Media In 2011?

Mindjumpers

Tweet Having reviewed what has happened across the different social media platforms in 2010, the next thought is what is going to happen in 2011? A lot of marketers have given their suggestions to what the year has in store for us, and a lot of interesting ideas have been published on blogs, presentations etc. Looking back at the year of 2010, it is very obvious that a lot of changes and new initiatives were launched on various social media platforms – especially during the end of the year

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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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Happy Birthday, Laura!

Justin Levy

Imagine if your birthday fell the day after one of the biggest party days of the year. Your friends would all be recovering from the previous evening’s festivities and your family, if they didn’t live near you, would all be traveling back home to prepare for the upcoming work week. Doesn’t sound too much fun, huh? Well, my wife, Laura, happens to have that luck.

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How To Kill Relationships With A Slap In The Face

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Kill Relationships With A Slap In The Face January 7th, 2011 Tweet Tell me when Last April, I was approached to speak at a PR conference targeted to health care professionals by a former vendor. Since it’s taking place in DC, in April of this year, I said yes.

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Good Ol’ Burgers Links Social Media w/ Live Consumers

Socialized

I recently found myself at Good Ol' Burgers and was struck by how well they alert consumers to their social media efforts via in-store promotion, and how clearly they articulate what's in it for the customer who engages with them through social media. Good Ol' Burgers has business cards all over.

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Social media loyalty: me like you long time (but me hard to get)

Mindjumpers

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. You can connect with him on Twitter @Conversionation. OK, my English is far from perfect but I do know that ‘me like you long time’ is not right. I was just thinking about Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket , the scene in Vietnam with the girl saying to the soldiers ‘me love you long time’ , while Nancy sing

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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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My 3 Words for 2011

Justin Levy

Over the past week I have been working on my goals for 2011. These goals include a mix of personal and professional challenges , including financial, fitness, blogging, and project goals. For each of these goals I have defined the steps to achieve that goal (e.g. to pay off a debt during 2011, I must make a specific payment each month) and then what the next action is to achieve that goal (e.g. set up an automatic payment so it is “set it and forget it&# ).

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How Pink Panties Heralded India's Social Media Movement

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How Pink Panties Heralded India’s Social Media Movement January 4th, 2011 Tweet Move over, adult entertainment It might border on redundant to mention that the social web has surpassed pornography as the most popular activity on the Internet.

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2011 Social Media Marketing Trends

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing has progressed from radical new idea to widely adopted practice in a remarkably short period of time. Just 5% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2008; by the fall of last year, that figure was 87%, and Twitter is now adding 300,000 new users per day. Facebook added more than 150 million new users in 2010. Three-quarters of b2b buyers use social media at some point during their purchase decision process, and marketers are responding with increased spending

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Let’s Get Even More Social With Facto.me

Mindjumpers

Tweet Recently, a new online platform called Facto.me was launched – and it was designed in less than 24 hours by Kyle Bragger. He is also the founder of the community Forrst , where developers and designers can share their work and inspiration, getting valuable feedback from others and thereby getting better at what they do. The idea behind Facto.me.

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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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5 Ways to Market Your Online Video Successfully

Josh S Peters

If you’ve got a great online video but aren’t sure how to showcase it, you’ve come to the right place. With videos everywhere on the Internet, they’re truly the most cost-effective way to market your business. But they can also easily get lost in the shuffle. Here are some tips to attract attention and draw in your audience: 1. Keep it Simple The best way to ensure brand notoriety and engage with an audience is to keep your video shorthand sweet.

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How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every year, I spend hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours reading articles on Internet Marketing for my annual Best Internet Marketing Posts blog post. The effort to find these posts, read them thoroughly, identify whether they meet certain criteria, and categorize them takes an incredibly huge toll on me, but at the end of the day, I’ve been proud to provide regular content to my readers.

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A social media analogy for golfers

SocialFish

I’ve been learning to play golf. My father has been playing all his life, and so I set a goal to be able to play 18 holes with him without being a total embarrassment. Mission accomplished. Now I want to be able to break 100 consistently. I was making progress, when the pesky weather stopped cooperating. Golfers talk in golf analogies. A lot. “Keep it on the short grass,&# means keep the ball in play. “Par for the course,&# means typical or average (ironic because a par, for me

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5 Tips To Avoid New Job Burnout

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 5 Tips To Avoid New Job Burnout January 3rd, 2011 Tweet It’s a new year, and perhaps you’re starting a new job. If you are, you have beaten the odds, and my hat is off to you! But when you start a new job, particularly if you’re fresh out of school, how do you “do a good job&# and yet not exhaust yourself?

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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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Why Social Media Does Not Bring Us Closer

Ari Herzog

It is a fallacy to suggest social media brings us closer. Take Facebook. It is silly to think that just because 500 million people have Facebook accounts and you befriend everyone in your life that you’re any closer to them on Facebook than off. Unless you can stand in a room surrounded by your 100, 600, or 2000 friends and one by one tell everyone what everyone else is doing in their lives, you fail as their friend.

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The Importance of Logos

Social Media Marketing

The guys at I Design Your Logo ( @idesignyourlogo ) contacted me with an idea. They decided they'd like to highlight my site as part of their ongoing work - where they create a number of logos for sites and then let the community decide which they prefer. I've never really had a logo for my site before, so I gave them some feedback and they came up with designs.

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Need blogging inspiration to start off 2011 with a bang?

SocialFish

WordPress is offering free daily post or weekly post inspiration. We’re always happy to help here at SocialFish, too, of course. Sometimes all you need is a little push and a little discipline… Our top tips for getting organized? 1. Read, read, read. Subscribe to association and other blogs relevant to your industry (if you don’t know where to start looking for them, start here.

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10 Killer Tips You Must Know When Using Aweber

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Farnoosh Brock , an amazingly inspiration blogger at Prolific Living , a blog about smart habits for rich living. If you are online (hello, you are reading this so you must be!) and you have a business – or are even thinking about having a business – online, you would be doing yourself a huge favor by creating and collecting a mailing list.

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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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And a New Blog Design is Up

Ari Herzog

I’m a big fan of the DIY ethic but I also recognize I can’t do everything myself. Inspired by Danny Brown’s launch of his blog design, I figured there was no better time than the present (err, past) to change the look of things around here, too. After searching for a WordPress designer who is adept in customizing CSS and PHP code for the Thesis theme , I stumbled onto Steve.

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Weekly Roundup: The New Year Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The New Year Edition January 2nd, 2011 Tweet The champagne has been popped and you might be recuperating from the New Year’s Eve festivities. Wake up! Time to start focusing on what might make (or break) our industry in 2011.

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4 Benefits of Internet Fax

Idaconcpts

Internet Fax (or “efax&# ) is a general term which refers to sending a document facsimile using the Internet, rather than using only phone networks (traditional faxing) with a fax machine. While the idea of setting up a fax number may appear to some a bit outdated given the popularity of email, there are 4 key benefits to consider. 1. Internet fax has lower setup and monthly costs than traditional fax.

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Have we got our head in the clouds about the value of online community?

Janet Fouts

I had a very interesting conversation with a Facebook application developer today. He’s a very smart guy and we agreed and disagreed on quite a lot of things. Here’s the crux of the discussion from my point of view. If it’s not yours, or if it is, please– for the love of community –pitch in and SAY something! We were talking about how to build community on a Facebook page and whether or not that’s really even possible.

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How to Successfully Network Online

Ari Herzog

The following is a feature article by Onibalusi Bamidele. This is also the debut of a weekly feature series to appear every Friday. If you’d like to contribute an article, learn the process here. No matter what you do online, your network is your most important asset. Most bloggers, writers and others who have a part to play online believe that some other thing like their blog, mailing list etc. is their most important online asset.

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