Tue.Jul 05, 2011

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Twitter Lists: Are They Useful?

yMarketingMatters

“What’s the benefit? Should I even bother?” I often get asked this by SMB owners and my clients. Yes! Twitter lists are really useful! They help you organize the people you follow (and don’t follow) into a specific “group” and when you click to view a list, you’ll see a stream of Tweets from all.

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10 Short Sentences That Sum Me Up

Jason Yormark

I’ve had a hell of a time writing regularly on my blog, and I finally decided to get a little help in the matter by subscribing to Chris Brogan’s Blog Topics. At first the idea of actually paying a nominal monthly fee for access to some blog topic ideas seemed silly, but word on the street seemed pretty positive on the quality so I decided to give it a spin.

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Facebook Offers In-Browser Skype Chat

Small Business Mavericks

I said it was going to happen. Of course, it happened sooner than I thought it would. But I’m more than pleased to announce that my prediction was correct. Facebook is now offering Skype video chat. WebProNews reported the news over the weekend. So what’s this mean for small businesses? Imagine this: Suppose you were able to embed a Skype button onto your business page at Facebook so that people who view your page could contact you via Skype in real time.

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What Happens When Leadership Starts Saying “Yes”

Waxing UnLyrical

[Ed: I'm on vacation. Here's the second of a week's worth of guest posts.]. No one tells you. how fast things will move once leadership is on board with social media. There are two similes I draw on when I have to describe this scenario to someone. Which one I use depends on the company I’m in. Image: Pattyequalsawesome via Flickr, CC 2.0. To colleagues at the office: “It is like a roller coaster.

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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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Google+ and World Domination

Janet Fouts

If you’re as into social media networks as I am you’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the launch of Google+ , a shiny new social network from Google. If you weren’t lucky enough to score an invite, here’s a demo to tease you. The network itself is reminiscent of a mix of the best features of FriendFeed , Facebook and a few other networks, and as Kit Eaton pointed out in her Google+ post on Fast Company the network seems positioned to take over from Foursquare ,

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Who Will Buy Your.Brand Domain

Ari Herzog

How many companies are willing to spend up to $200,000 to purchase their own domain? The historical fare of.com,net, or.org domains is not at stake here — but a new group of domains that are determined by each purchaser. The current list of 21 generic top-level domains (excluding country-specific domains such as.ca and.uk) includes the fare you typically see at the tail-end of every browser URL: com,gov,biz,info,travel, and so forth.

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Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook

Twist Image

It's hard to imagine that there is a Facebook killer somewhere around the next tech innovation, but there probably is. Granted, in the end, it won't look much like a "killer" but probably closer to something new, shiny and different that has enough new whiz bang boom to garner attention. Many thought that this was what would become of Twitter. It just seemed so much easier and simpler than the more complex neediness of Facebook.

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Your Community's Network Is Important - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Social Media is a great platform for sharing information. It is a great platform when things go well and people share either what you want them to share or they share on their own a positive note about you / your Brand / your Business. There are various people sharing various matter. People automatically start to prefer a certain platform for a particular aspect.

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Why Your Blog Isn’t Making Money

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Moon Hussain of Experiments In Passive Income. This post comes from the bottom of my heart. After coming in like a cowgirl blogging newbie and failing with making money online with my blog, I have figured out what lead to my blog bringing in $0.00 most months. To think I came into the blogging world with a typical “make money online&# blog and with the mindset that I’d blow everyone away with loads of affiliate income rolling in was foolish.

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What’s in a crowdsourcing….

The Way of the Web

I was going to write an eloquent and heartfelt post regarding everything that’s wrong about the attempt by Golley Slater to rebrand by a hamfisted attempt at ‘crowdsourcing’ – another example why really we should be stricter about how the term is used, and why co-collaboration should probably replace it. But then I spotted the always interesting Andrea Phillips had beaten me to is on her blog, Deus Ex Machinatio.

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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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Launch, a video book review

Jeff Esposito

A few weeks back, Wiley sent me over a copy of Michael Stelzner’s latest book Launch (Amazon link) to review for my blog. While I initially thought the book would be on social media since I know Stelzner from his blog Social Media Examiner , I can safely sat that I was wrong.

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Google+ Tips and Tricks

Janet Fouts

This post is meant to be a getting started guide for those of us who got an invite and are now wondering how to use Google+. If you’re looking for an overview of Google+ check out Part 1 of this post: Google+ and World Domination. Start with your Google Profile. Your profile is going to list your +1′s, posts on Google+ and more soon we don’t know about yet.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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Defining a Silo Buster

Net-Savvy Executive

I recently saw a job description that tells me I'm not the only one looking for the value that's lost when analytical methodologies keep to themselves. Change a few key words, and it becomes something that a lot more organizations could use. Maybe yours? Cross-pollinating analytics I really like the idea of learning from other fields, such as the physicians who used lessons from Formula One pit stops to improve patient transfers.

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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 Commonsense Time-saver We All Missed

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. You’ve been wasting time in the blogging process, whether you know it or not. When I reveal this simple idea, it will figuratively smack you in the face with its clear benefits. It’s not that your current method is bad. I just happened to stumble upon an intuitive time-saver that will help you.

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Why do People Engage With Brands Socially (Infographic)

Mindjumpers

Tweet Most businesses design a Facebook page and a Twitter profile as a part of their social media strategy. But it is also a good idea to think what attracts people to your brand on these social media channels. Recent research shows that effective engagement online can help spread brand awareness and also improve brand perception and increase sales.