Thu.Mar 10, 2011

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Uncovering The Remarkable In Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

Social media is an interesting animal. We talk often – myself included – about using it to build relationships , about getting to know one’s community, about deepening human interaction. Yet how much do we really know about the people behind the avatars? I was thinking about this yesterday, when I realized that someone whose path crosses mine quite often, has “another life&# I knew absolutely nothing about.

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The Trouble with Social Media Influence

Socialized

Like me, maybe you've been reading about clout, Klout or KLOWT. Traditionally the word means influence or power. It now refers to a complex measurement of a person's or company's social media influence. It has been said that one of the nicest things about industry standards is there are so many.

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6 Tips for Building A Sustainable Social Strategy

Firebelly

Sustainability is critical to ongoing success with your social media marketing strategy. Here are 6 tips for building a sustainable program: 1. Avoid burnout. Whether you’re over talking and burning your audience out, over taxing people inside your program or promising levels of service via social media that your company can’t deliver, the prudent approach is to have a balanced approach.

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Velma Hart Talks Open Community

SocialFish

This is the second in a series of interviews we are conducting with CEO’s and senior executives about their take on the concepts in Open Community. Here, we talked to Velma Hart, CAE, an accomplished association executive with more than 20 years experience in nonprofit management, who was just recently appointed as Executive Director of Giving Initiatives and Alternatives and as CFO of B-Security Systems LLC.

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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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What Was Your Enchanted Moment?

Direct Marketing Observations

I’d like to think that we’ve all had “enchanted&# moments in this space. I have had at least two, maybe three. The space I’m referring to specifically is the digital/social media, online marketing space. Moment #1 possibly occurred when I built my first website. That was pretty cool. It looked pretty bad but there was something to be said about doing it without the aid of templates and the myriad of tools and programs available today.

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Small Business Marketing Through iPhone Apps | Small Business.

Small Business Mavericks

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Big East: Goodbye Reese’s, Hello Twitter?

Freelance Social Media

On Tuesday night the Big East Men’s Basketball Championship began. This is a five day tournament played in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Usually the court is adorned with the Big East Conference logo, the tournament logo and some advertising logos (and if you see an advertising logo on a basketball court, more than likely it will be for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups).

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Stop Producing Noise

Ari Herzog

If you sense a theme between recent articles about unfriending your Facebook friends and reducing your Twitter broadcasts , you are correct that the common denominator is noise. We are spending too much time producing and consuming noise. Both efforts are unproductive. We incorrectly assume that people want to read everything we put out. We don’t think about the stuff that everyone else is putting out.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Movie of the Week

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing. 4 people who aren’t reading your blog and how to get them to change their mind – a look at four different types of people and why they don’t read your

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Big East: Goodbye Reese’s, Hello Twitter?

Freelance Social Media

'On Tuesday night the Big East Men’s Basketball Championship began. This is a five day tournament played in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Usually the court is adorned with the Big East Conference logo, the tournament logo and some advertising logos (and if you see an advertising logo on a basketball court, more than likely it will be for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups).

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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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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging. Say that three times fast! You may be asking yourself, “How does he stay current with all of those blogs?

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Is Wi-Fi Making You Anti-Social?

Convince & Convert

Guest post by David Murton, a professional writer specializing in the fields of social media and marketing. He is also an avid piano and accordion player, with a particular interest in the music of the Classical era. In the pantheon of big ideas, the concept of the noosphere ranks right up there with the best of them. Developed most famously by Teilhard de Chardin , the 20th century Jesuit scientist and philosopher, the concept of the noosphere holds that there emerges among us a sphere of inter

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Feature Friday: How iGoogle is My RSS Feed HQ

Ari Herzog

The following is a guest blog article by Chris Apple. I don’t know about you, but as a real estate blogger, I tend to read a lot of blogs during my workday. Some of the blogs I read on any given day range in topics from SEO blogs , real estate blogs , social media blogs , and blogs about blogging. Say that three times fast! You may be asking yourself, “How does he stay current with all of those blogs?

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Big East: Goodbye Reese’s, Hello Twitter?

Freelance Social Media

'On Tuesday night the Big East Men’s Basketball Championship began. This is a five day tournament played in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Usually the court is adorned with the Big East Conference logo, the tournament logo and some advertising logos (and if you see an advertising logo on a basketball court, more than likely it will be for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups).

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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 iPad Won't Save You

Twist Image

How were the line-ups today outside of the Apple stores? You're going to read, see and hear non-stop coverage of the iPad 2 today (and for the next few days). The bigger news is this: the iPad won't save you. I'm talking to advertisers, publishers, media professionals, marketers and professional communicators. No device is going to save your industry or act as a savior to where your current business is running.

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Who And Do - Are Important Criteria To Understanding Your Target Audience In Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

As a Social Media Page Administrator / Community Manager how do you look at your Community? Do you take a look at your community? The humans who have joined you / your Page have a reason to do this. The reasons could be direct and obvious at the tertiary level. For instance an offer and discount expectation could make people look forward to your Page, or some privileged preview and a sneak peek of a new launch could make people enthusiastic and so on.

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Innovation And Talent In The Marketing Industry

Twist Image

When was it the business of a Marketing agency to do anything but service the needs of the brands it serves? Times have changed. Times continue to change. The business model of the advertising or marketing agency of yesteryear continues to morph. In a past life, the agency would protect and covet its most senior resources, only to unleash them on the client work.

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Want More Readers? Read More Blogs

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Jeremy Myers of www.tillhecomes.org/blog. Every blogger wants to be read. While some of the keys to attracting readers include writing valuable content, having error-free text, and using a clean blog layout, one of the most overlooked elements in getting people to read your blog is being a good blog reader. Here are five tips to make this happen. 1.

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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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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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Unique Unconventional Marketing Nuggets

Idaconcpts

Guerrilla marketing ideas are known for their creativity, humor and effectiveness in promoting a concept, product or business. They are also considerably cheaper than mainstream advertising thus attracting even more attention to the business because of their refreshing ingenuity. Here are some great marketing ideas to use for your business. Special Calendar Days.

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7 Levels of Social Media Engagement

Laurel Papworth

There are seven stages to social media engagement from shallow monitoring to deep peer to peer economies. How deep is the rabbit hole of social media? Is your organisation doing the minimum they can do, or are they quite advanced? I put together this diagram to show the steps from shallow engagement such as just monitoring to full engagement including co-creating products and services.

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Blogosphere Trends + The Art of Live Blogging

ProBlogger

Live-blogging—writing about an event as it happens rather than after the fact—can be a valuable resource for your readers, providing them with up-to-the-minute information about important events and making your blog the go-to destination for information on a developing story. It is also rife with perils: insufficient power supplies, spotty Internet connections, and errors made in haste, to name a few.

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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.