Tue.Nov 15, 2011

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How To Remove the Yahoo! News, Washington Post or Spotify Notifications From Your Facebook Ticker

SocMed Sean

I’ve been asked this question more than a few times, so I thought I’d pass it along here. If you hate that apps like Yahoo! News, Spotify, and the Washington Post are pushing articles into your Facebook timeline, there is a quick way to get rid of them. Within your timeline each app gives you the opportunity to hide a specific story, but doesn’t give you the chance to hide everything from Yahoo!

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Social Media Marketing POV: To Blog or Not to Blog?

Firebelly

BLOG! Blogging should be the meat and potatoes of any social media marketing (and/or SEO strategy). The benefits of blogging outweigh the costs. Seriously. So, why are you looking at us with blank stares and mouth agape? Whether you have no idea what a blog is or the idea of writing intimidates you into a frozen face of fear, you are not alone in your hesitation to blog.

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What Should Be The Outcome of Brand Conversations in Social?

Direct Marketing Observations

Do big brands actually have conversations with the people/customers/prospects that friend, follow and fan them? Before we answer that, let’s talk about the dynamics of what we the consumer “feel” if a brand does talk to us. Happiness? A sense of belonging or inclusiveness? What should happen after the like? What does a consumer want?

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McDonald’s Celebrates 30 Years in Spain With a New YouTube Video

Mindjumpers

Tweet McDonald’s is known for creating amazing campaigns that do not “sell” anything on the face, but instead remind the consumers about the brand and make them feel the connected to it. These campaigns mostly catch the eyes of advertising and marketing enthusiasts and I for one happen to fall in this category! Therefore, I thought of writing about this interesting new campaign that was made by McDonald’s to celebrate 30 years of serving customers in Spain.

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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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Smartphone Sales in India Q3 2011

The Marketing Blog

Monday’s Economic Times brings an interesting piece of statistic in its news story Nokia Bets on Lumia Regain Market Share. The graphic in the story talks about the market share of different players in the Indian smartphone landscape and how things have changed from Q3 of 2010 to Q3 of 2011. Certainly worth a look with the fortunes of likes of Nokia, Samsung and RIM swinging in opposite directions.

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Fight U.S. Government Internet Censorship

Ari Herzog

The video above discusses the U.S. Senate version of the PROTECT IP Act , but the House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act , is worse. If passed by Congress, the government will receive new powers to block Americans’ access to websites that corporations don’t like. Think about the number of videos you record and upload to Facebook and Youtube.

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Our Dangerous Addiction to Social Media Case Studies

Convince & Convert

The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote , when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel. Tom was referring to data-dredging and the spate of statistical “best practices” that bubble up in social media like something in Jed Clampett’s back yard.

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How to Create a Google Plus Page for Your Business

Bill Hartzer

As many may already know, Google Plus is now allowing people to create their very own Google Plus business page. Although Google Plus pages are not limited to just business use, businesses from all around who are already using Google Plus are now taking advantage of being able to create a Google Plus page. This will give many businesses, and organizations a new avenue of communication with their customers along the lines of branding through a social network.

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Smartphone Sales in India Q3 2011

The Marketing Blog

Monday’s Economic Times brings an interesting piece of statistic in its news story Nokia Bets on Lumia Regain Market Share. The graphic in the story talks about the market share of different players in the Indian smartphone landscape and how things have changed from Q3 of 2010 to Q3 of 2011. Certainly worth a look with the fortunes of likes of Nokia, Samsung and RIM swinging in opposite directions.

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Run Your Business With Skype

Small Business Mavericks

Skype is one of the leaders in voice over internet technology, if not THE leader in VOIP. They have some awesome services for businesses who are ready to enter the 21st century. Consider these: Free Skype to Skype calling. You can have your own online phone number. Anyone from anywhere can call you and it’s local. Conference calls through Skype.

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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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Sign up for Small Business Success Summit Before Friday

Stay N' Alive

Just a quick note - I'll be speaking at Social Media Examiner's Small Biz Success Summit on February 6. Currently, if you sign up before Friday you can get 50% off the price of admission. In full disclosure, if you use my links here I get a commission on ticket sales from your registrations so if you register through me please go through these links.

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Quick SEO Tips For Google+ On Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

With Google bringing out the Google+ Business Pages it is clearly understood by many that you will have a heads up on the Google Search aspect. While there is no such certainty what perhaps you need to do is take care of your SEO when you are working on your Google+ Brand / Business Pages. What you need to look at and pay extra attention to is: When you Post on Google+ make it a point to have the Public Visibility on.

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Four Tips for Bloggers Who Want to Work with the Travel Industry

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Matt Long of LandLopers.com. People are attracted to travel blogging for a lot of reasons. For some, they are doing a year-long trip and simply want an easy way to keep in touch with friends and family. Still others are attracted to the niche travel blogoshpere for the sheer love of travel, and any partnerships with the travel industry are a bonus.

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Cartoon of the day

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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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6 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Obey so they Don’t Get Sued

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. If you’re a blogger, do you know how to stay on the right side of the law? Do you know what you need to do to keep the FTC from knocking on your door or to keep from getting a dreaded cease and desist letter? Fortunately you don’t have to be a lawyer or law scholar to understand the laws that govern blogging, particularly in the U.S.

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Is PowerPoint Making Us Stupid?

Twist Image

How many mindless presentations have you sat through in business and life? How many numbing slides have you had to endure of pie-charts or ones littered with hundreds of words? How many times have you sat through a presentation where the speaker was, literally, reading aloud the content on the slides that are right in front of you? How many times have you sat there while someone read (poorly) a speech while stammering behind a podium.

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ONE SOCIAL MEDIA PREDICTION FOR 2011…YES, 2011

Myrland Marketing

About a year ago, Twitterville author Shel Israel wrote a blog post titled “My Predictions for 2011″ on his blog Global Neighbourhoods. One of his predictions that resonated with me at the time was Number 9. Shel wrote: “The Chinese government will accelerate its suppression of free speech on the Internet. Simultaneously, more Chinese people will bypass the government [.].

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Social Network Identity: Anonymity, Pseudonymity and Accountability -Media140

Laurel Papworth

One of the great mysteries of life is why Anon was such a genius in print and such an idiot online. And like all great mysteries, it’s worth whiling away an afternoon investigating the phenomenon. Lets explore Pseudonymity vs Anonymity and the repercussions with Accountability. And let’s not forget to look at the fact Facebook and Google make money from your online Identity.

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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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Raising Cain: Why Herman Cain Is a PR Case Study

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Daniel J. Cohen. Politics was my first love, but she broke my heart. As a student of American University from 2002 to 2006, I found politics a bit too vicious for my liking. Attack ads are a cornerstone of political campaigns because dragging your opponent through the mud is a fast way to gallop toward an ever-so-special seat in a fancy delegation or council.