Sat.Jun 11, 2011 - Fri.Jun 17, 2011

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How to get Twitter Followers – Part 1

Harp Interactive

Like so many businesses out there, perhaps you've opened a Twitter account for your brand or business and have gained a handful of followers but aren't really sure how to grow your following or what to do next. With a little effort, you can take your Twitter account from stark anonymity to massive popularity. Follow these tips and take your Twitter account to the next level of marketing.

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Five Reasons You Should Go To The Next Third Tuesday Toronto

Dave Fleet

I just had a conversation with my old boss Joe Thornley about how excited I and a few others on the Edelman Toronto team are about the upcoming Third Tuesday Toronto event with Ontario’s Ombudsman Andre Marin. Joe suggested I blog about the event; I thought I’d go one better and give you five reasons why, if you’re in Toronto on June 21, you should go to this event. 1.

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9 Steps To A Same Day Passport

Jason Yormark

Every once in awhile I experience something that I feel compelled to share even if it strays from the subject matter of my blog. Especially when the information doesn’t quite exist. That’s what happened to me last week when I realized late in the game that I had misplaced my passport 2 days before my trip to SES Toronto. Oops. I immediately turned to the web to see what my options were.

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Make Your Online Content Sharable! Best Plugins & Widgets (Free)

yMarketingMatters

For an SMB, creating good, valuable content takes a lot of sweat, right? I know. So making this content SHARABLE is a must! I am surprised to find how many of my clients (and many companies) OVERLOOK this or just simply don’t think about this small basic concept when creating content! Its social media marketing.

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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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How to get Twitter Followers – Part 1

Harp Interactive

Like so many businesses out there, perhaps you've opened a Twitter account for your brand or business and have gained a handful of followers but aren't really sure how to grow your following or what to do next. With a little effort, you can take your Twitter account from stark anonymity to massive popularity. Follow these tips and take your Twitter account to the next level of marketing.

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Cartoon: Corporate Twitter

Dave Fleet

This made me chuckle. Recognize this picture? (via the brilliant tomfishburne.com ).

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How Not to Pitch Anyone

Waxing UnLyrical

Give… no, Take. You know that feeling when someone tells you they’ll give you something, you’re expecting it, and then they tell you they’ve changed their mind because you’re not worth it? I think it’s called “being punched in the stomach,&# or something like it. This is the exact email exchange between a PR “pro&# who pitched me on a food-related product that took place beginning last week and culminating yesterday.

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Strategy? We Don’t Need No Social Media Strategy

Socialized

An outstanding piece by Antony Young in AdAge suggests Social Media is a Venue, Not a Strategy. The headline is exactly right. I have been preaching a similar approach for a long time. Young says, "Social media is a venue for marketers. a set of technologies or tactics that.

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Who,Why & How of Twitter [Infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet I found this interesting infographic on SocialWayne.com which gives an in-depth overview of Twitter. After a lot of integrations and updates, the social networking site looks even more exciting and upcoming. The infographic provides good insight into what kind of people are active on Twitter as well as the information they post or look out for.

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8 Tips for Using Social Media for Political Campaigns

Almost Savvy

By now, most candidates for public office have figured out that incorporating social media into their campaigns is a critically important step. It’s the how to do this that escapes most of them. That’s perfectly understandable. The last couple of election cycles, much of this social media business was new. That was then, this is now. Your audience is very savvy online, shouldn’t you be, too?

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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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How Google’s Newest Announcements Will Affect SEO

Firebelly

On Tuesday, Google let loose on to the world a slew of new announcements , all changing the way users can search the web. First and foremost is Search by Image, a new feature that opens desktop searching up to the features of Google Goggles for Android phones. In a style similar to the popular app, users can upload or enter the URL of pictures and instantly be presented with matches and all kinds of information – such as what the image is of, where it’s at (presented in Google Maps,) and c

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When Traackr Met MeasurePR

Waxing UnLyrical

It was a dark night, the moon sullenly refusing to come out from behind the clouds. As Ken walked along the path less traveled, his thoughts meandered from the rancid pizza that was no doubt waiting on his front stoop (Papa John knew him well), the less-than pleasant conversation he’d had with his ex that morning, and what life would be like on a desert island.

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Every word matters

Socialized

Every word matters. Whether you're writing to persuade, to inform, or entertain, nearly every word choice affects the meaning of your message. This is especially important in today's foreshortened communications environments like Twitter, Web banners, SMS, and advertising taglines. A couple years ago I wrote a competitive response for internal use.

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Interesting Crowdsourcing Cases:MJ’s New Video, Iceland’s Constitution

Mindjumpers

Tweet A lot of videos and forums where opinions are crowdsourced have recently come to my attention. However, at Mindjumpers we rather like to look at it as being ‘Tribesourced’ The term Tribes was suggested by Seth Godin in 2008 as a “ group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader and an idea&#. This fits with social media as fans or tribe members get to be part of the final outcome in a participatory or engaging manner.

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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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4 Stories About Why Our Stories Matter

Firebelly

I’ve been a believer in the power of stories for most of my life. In fact, I came to America because I believed in the “Western&# stories that Hollywood created. John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood all embodied the outrider – that rugged individual who in many ways personifies a certain essential part of being American.

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Nonprofits, Tell Your Stories: Rob Wu of CauseVox

Waxing UnLyrical

I attended the Nonprofit 2.0 conference about 10 days ago, and it was a really great event; kudos to Geoff Livingston , Allyson Kapin and Shireen Mitchell for putting together not just a standing-room-only event, but one that was inclusive, highly interactive and chockfull of great ideas and takeaways for all. Geoff wrote a post a few days ago on how the question of “ how do I use Facebook and Twitter &# was refreshingly absent, and that was absolutely true.

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Why engaging influencers is even more important given recent Twitter research

Akamai Marketing

I recently read an article by Tom Webster about the fact that measuring social media is limited largely by the fact that most data comes from Twitter rather than Facebook.

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Funny Google Search: ‘I Don’t Get Twitter’

Small Business Mavericks

Do you get Twitter? Evidently, a lot of people don’t. I know this because a screenshot on this WebProNews article told me so. The funny thing is, I had to see it for myself so I went and typed in “I don’t get&# on Google and guess what? Yep, Google Search tried to help me. Apparently, “I don’t get Twitter&# is a popular search query.

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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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Is LinkedIn the New Old Boys Network?

Adam Sherk

According to the new Pew Internet study Social Networking Sites and our Lives there are nearly twice as many male LinkedIn users as female. What gives? So what accounts for this disparity? More males in the workforce? Do men prefer LinkedIn’s brand of simple, stripped down, business-oriented networking? For what it is worth, females have stronger participation overall and in every other social network that was examined.

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What Not to Do When Humanizing a Brand

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Matt Krautstrunk. In the business world, professionalism is an asset. If you are an outside sales rep or represent a company to clients, keeping yourself looking clean to represent a corporate image is something that most employers value. However, when it comes to branding, the opposite may be true. Consumers value personal, truthful conversation from companies.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must Reads

Firebelly

Below are 5 social media must-reads that we wouldn’t want you to miss. How To Use Facebook To Enchant Your Customers. By Guy Kawasaki There’s lots of good advice out there for running a good Facebook Page and how you can build a long-term community. I wanted to offer something a little bit different and look at those simple tips that you might often overlook, but are fundamental to running a good Facebook Page. 5 Keys to Motivating Your Employee Bloggers.

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Are You Adding To The Noise?

Small Business Mavericks

There is a concept in social media circles known as your signal-to-noise ratio. What is meant by that exactly? In social media terms, your signal-to-noise ratio is the amount of actual value that you provide relative to the nonsense you churn. Pardon the dirty speak, but that’s essentially what it is in low-brow talk. Now, to paraphrase it in more common layman’s terms: Your signal-to-noise ratio is how much chatter you engage in that doesn’t benefit anyone in any real sense (n

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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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Relevance, Redefined by Social Media

The Social Media Incubator

A recent article in AdAgeDigital stated, “ As it turns out, many people in social networks don’t want to talk about your product, they just want to talk. ”. That statement can and has been countered by business owners with the question: What’s the point of being on social media if not to promote my products/services or myself? Social media is about developing a personal relationship with your clients and understanding how strategically developing that relationship through apparently random pos

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Weekly Roundup: The Social Good Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

There is so much tragedy in the world. Every day, someone, somewhere is affected by it. From a social media standpoint, even if you can’t do anything physically, you can certainly earn some some social karma for yourself online. So I’m going to point you to a few different places to do just that (I hope) this weekend and beyond. 1. Alice Pyne, a 15-year-old British girl who has terminal Hodgkin’s lymphoma , has a “bucket list&# that includes being a Twitter trending topi

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Showyou Showme Showeverybody

Firebelly

The YouTube time suck, we’ve all been there. Someone shares a video of a cat (it’s always a cat, that’s why we created the Internet, right?) and then you see another video of ninja cat that you have to watch and then another one and then somehow that video of a cat stuck in a too-small box turns into terrible Japanese game shows, which turns into fantastically awful 80s talent show try-outs.

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How Consumers Use Social Networking Sites

Small Business Mavericks

A study carried out by Sensis shows how consumers are using social networks. Here are some of the findings: 12% research products they’re interested in purchasing. 11% follow brands in hopes of receiving special offers. 12% research travel offers or holiday destinations. 15% follow or search for information on specific brands. Of course, most people are using the social networks for personal reasons, but you should pay attention to these numbers.

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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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Choosing To Friend or Unfriend on Facebook

Kikolani

If you’re like me and you use your personal profile to make connections on Facebook, then you may find yourself at a point where your quickly approaching the 5,000 friend limit and need to be more selective about who you choose to friend. Or you may simply find that you have too many friends to deal with and want to start eliminating them, one by one.

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On hardwork, Shorts Cuts and Aggregating in Digital

Direct Marketing Observations

Do you ever hear anyone after a huge win, a major client victory or a momentous occasion within an organization say the following? “Without the short cuts and the corners we cut, we would have never made it…”. In the world of digital, there exists the potential to aggregate your activities and consolidate your digital streams so as not to duplicate work.

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How Obama Sets Online Marketing High

Ari Herzog

Photograph by Pete Souza. This Feature Friday article is written by Jessica Wagner. It sounds staggering but President Barack Obama will likely break $1 billion in political fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. While this number is mind boggling and sure to incite its share of political debate, that kind of dough being generated for a presidential election is no surprise in a world where political campaigning is now as much a war fought online as it is a battle waged on television.

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The Future Of Facebook

Small Business Mavericks

If there is anything the Web has taught us it’s that you can’t really predict what trends will be the leading trends in five or ten years. In 1995, for instance, no one knew that search would become the most important method for finding information online. Google didn’t come along until 1998. In 2001, no one knew that blogging would be as popular as it has become.

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29 Ways to Stay Creative

Kikolani

Over the weekend, I found this video and thought it was a perfect fit for bloggers who need to keep the inspiration flowing for their writing. 29 WAYS TO STAY CREATIVE from TO-FU. I do everything in this list but drink coffee and sing in the shower. I sing in the car instead. My suggestion would be to print this out and put it near your computer, carry it around in your notebook, or add it to your computer’s wallpaper.

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