Tue.Feb 28, 2012

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Bloggers: Would You Rather Be First Or Right?

SocMed Sean

To all my blogger friends, I would love to hear opinions on whether it is more responsible for us to be right vs. first when reporting information. Is speculation okay? Is it useful? As content becomes more and more valuable and as we each try to increase awareness of our blogs, build our following, and increase traffic, how important is it to ensure that our facts are correct before we hit the “Publish” button?

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5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

What are news organizations doing to increase user activity and engagement on their Facebook pages? To be clear, a large part of any Facebook strategy focuses on newsfeed visibility and on-site promotion through tactics like EdgeRank optimization, frictionless sharing , like and subscribe buttons , Open Graph tags, Facebook Comments and other Facebook Social Plugins.

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NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Tweets From The Daytona 500

Firebelly

Brad Keselowski's Tweet. NASCAR was pushing their presence on Twitter in the days leading up to the Daytona 500. Displaying Twitter handles from the newscasters to NASCAR drivers. And, last night, NASCAR definitely got the Twitter push they were wanting. On lap 160, Juan Pablo Mantoya crashed into a jet dryer carrying 200 gallons of jet kerosene causing a major explosion on the backstretch.

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Social media gurus: slow down for God’s sake!

Socialized

In the course of just a couple of weeks, Pinterest "buzz" went from "chick niche site social network version of Etsy" to "the next amazing revolution in social business" to "Watch out, they trample on copyright holders! I just deleted my account." Did the world really change that much in less.

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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 Hybrids are Coming: Evolution of the Prototype Marketer

Convince & Convert

Paul Roetzer ( @paulroetzer ) is founder and CEO of PR 20/20 , a Cleveland-based inbound marketing agency, and author of The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley). Digital marketing has revolutionized the industry, and the job market. Corporate marketing departments and marketing agencies struggle to recruit and retain qualified professionals for career paths that did not exist three years ago, while academic institutions are faced with the need to adapt curriculums to the real-time nature of bus

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NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Tweets From The Daytona 500

Firebelly

Brad Keselowski's Tweet. NASCAR was pushing their presence on Twitter in the days leading up to the Daytona 500. Displaying Twitter handles from the newscasters to NASCAR drivers. And, last night, NASCAR definitely got the Twitter push they were wanting. On lap 160, Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer carrying 200 gallons of jet kerosene causing a major explosion on the backstretch.

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NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Tweets From The Daytona 500

Firebelly

Brad Keselowski's Tweet. NASCAR was pushing their presence on Twitter in the days leading up to the Daytona 500. Displaying Twitter handles from the newscasters to NASCAR drivers. And, last night, NASCAR definitely got the Twitter push they were wanting. On lap 160, Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a jet dryer carrying 200 gallons of jet kerosene causing a major explosion on the backstretch.

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The Face Of Facebook

Twist Image

Is Facebook making us all the same? We have our unique friends and interests meshed with our families, with a dash of our professional lives put in there for good measure. But, is Facebook really the place that highlights our originality? In the early days of the Internet (pre-Social Media), there was some worry that portals like Yahoo and AOL were delivering a very generic and sanitized media experience (much like broadcast television with limited and fixed choices).

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TWITTER: “NICE TO MEET YOU EGG”

Myrland Marketing

You signed up for this thing called Twitter a while back for one of a few reasons: Do any of these sound familiar? You weren’t quite sure what to do with it, but you knew you needed to reserve your name so it wouldn’t be taken when you were ready. You were ready to reach out to others [.].

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It's Time To Defy Convention

Twist Image

How many days have you sat around, stomach twisted, waiting to hear if you had won a new piece of business that you pitched for? It's a terrible feeling and the only thing that can alleviate it is getting the proverbial thumb's up from the prospective client. The sad truth is that it doesn't always work out in your favor. "You win some, you lose some," is the common lament you'll overhear business development professionals bellowing at the bar, while they nurse an extra dry martini.

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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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Five tips for SXSW Virgins

Jeff Esposito

In a little over a week thousands of techies, hipsters and marketing folks will arrive in Austin, Texas for the interactive marketing portion of the 26th Annual South by Southwest Conference for five days of sessions, keynotes, events, networking opportunities and parties. Over those five days there will be a plethora of trends, Tweets and predictions of the next “it” thing in the digital marketing space.

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Blog Wise Tip 5: Manage Distractions

ProBlogger

Given their productivity levels, you might think that A-list bloggers don’t get distracted. The truth, as the interviews in Blog Wise show, is that they’ve learned to deal with distractions so that they don’t rule the day. Distraction #1: Social media. Is social media sucking up your time? Give yourself permission to spend a few minutes there, says Amy Porterfield.

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How Brands Use Pinterest

Mindjumpers

Tweet Pinterest, the social bookmarking tool for images and videos launched in 2010, has become a new favorite platform for many of us – myself included. No doubt, the popularity of the network has exploded. Back in December, Pinterst counted over 7 million unique users, compared to 1.6 million in September. And since the beginning of 2012, daily users has increased by more than 145 %.

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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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SEO Basics For Small Business Owners – The Title Tag

Small Business Mavericks

Sometimes it’s the little things on a web page that make all the difference. Often, it’s not what the user sees that makes the difference, it’s what the search engines see and interprets. Kristine Schachinger on Search Engine Watch considers the title tag to be the single most important element on a web page. From a users perspective, the title tag is the text that may appear at the top of their browser, and generally appears as the link in search results.

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Top-of-mind Topics for Bloggers: Digging Deeper

ProBlogger

Yesterday’s infographic covered a lot of topics, which I guess goes to show just how much we bloggers have on our minds! I thought I’d follow it up with links to more information on each of the topics it covered, so that anyone who’s feeling overwhelmed can access and work through these ideas at their own pace. While each of us might have all these topics in mind at any time, we’re naturally going to focus on those that interest us, or those we find easier, or feel less c

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Some Google Changes and Google Plus Tips

Waxing UnLyrical

I have read a few “How to use Google Plus for Business” posts and presentations. They all focus on search results and the power of Google. This is true. While I do not have a Facebook Page, my Google Plus result comes up third in search: I did a test for Chobani and Pepsi. I didn’t get the same results, but Facebook did not rank high for either.

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