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HOW TO: Read 26 Books A Year

Dave Fleet

Tweet Late in 2009, Julien Smith’s fantastic approach to reading inspired me to set an ambitious target for this year: to read one book every two weeks throughout the year. I even published my target list of books so people could hold me to account. Well, the year is almost up and despite a crazy year , I’m happy to say I hit my goal. In fact, I’m on my 28th book of 2010.

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MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro: MacBook Air Review After Owning The MacBook Pro

Jason Yormark

Tweet So a few months ago I went into my local Apple store and had the opportunity to play around a bit with the newly launched MacBook Air. Needless to say it was one sexy piece of hardware, and I of course wanted it badly. I couldn’t really justify owning both a Pro and Air, so I started to actually do a bit of research on the Air to see if I could function on a machine with less power.

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How Reading Fairy Tales Can Improve Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How Reading Fairy Tales Can Improve Public Relations December 28th, 2010 Tweet What’s your favorite fairy tale? I actually have a bunch of them. There’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, of course. Also Cinderella.

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5 Great Social Media Initiatives in 2010

Mindjumpers

Tweet It has been a great year for social media. Much has happened and many new features, services and platforms has seen it light or been developed during 2010 – and it has led to much writing here on our blog. We have been taken a look back at some of the successful campaigns and brands that have been good at using social media as a marketing platform.

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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 End of Corporate Social Media as a Novelty

Socialized

On October 6, 2006, A.G. Lafley, then CEO of consumer products giant Procter and Gamble, ushered in the age of corporate social media when he told attendees at the Association of National Advertisers conference, “Consumers are beginning in a very real sense to own our brands and participate in their.

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10 Best Posts of 2010

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Far and away one of the best blog posts I wrote this year was on the new 4′c of B2B Marketing – it was read over 15,000 times and 3X more popular than the next most read blog post of the year. This inspired me to do a quick 10 Best Posts of 2010 as we slide into the New Year. I hope you enjoy it … 4 C’s of B2B Marketing – We’ve all heard about the four P’s of marketing: Product, Price, Placement, Promotion.

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Top Posts About Social Media During 2010

Mindjumpers

Tweet A t Mindjumpers.com, we publish blog posts everyday. During the year of 2010, we have gained more readers on our blog, which we of course are very happy about. Therefore, we would like to share some of our top posts this year, and also say a big thanks to you! In general, we have experienced that both best practice cases and different “how to” posts have gained great popularity on our blog.

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Social Media Tips for Restaurants | Part 1: From the Consumer’s Point of View

Saying It Social

Lately, I’ve found myself eating out quite a bit due to birthdays, holidays, etc… and I realized I’ve fallen into quite a pattern of how I choose where to eat and what I do when I get there. A pattern I thought would be a good one to share with restaurant owners wondering how to get people to their establishment and keep them engaged.

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Three Overlooked Ways to Improve SEO Results

Webbiquity SMM

To keep up with changes on the SEO landscape and make sure I’m consistently utilizing the most effective techniques on behalf of clients, I read a lot of articles and blog posts about SEO. Most still focus on the same basic areas: • Keyword research. • On-page optimization (content, headings, meta tags). • Links (external and internal). And to be fair, even with all of the changes in search over the past year , those basics remain vitally important to search success.

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Want social media success? Make it meaningful.

Josh S Peters

Have you ever seen someone say “Wow, look at that social media campaign. Look how amazing it is that they are pushing out their same old advertising crap and ignoring everyone. Look at the way they haven’t embraced the medium, but instead have just found a new way of doing the same old crap. This is such a terrible waste of time, we should all emulate it.&# No?

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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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December 2010: Ottawa's Twitter top 20 | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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The Interactive Christmas Cards

Mindjumpers

Tweet. Less traditional post. During Christmas we usually want to send our beloved friends and family a greeting. But honestly, do you send as much Christmas cards as before? Or are you all about the digital easy way and just write a post on their Facebook wall instead? Anyway, it’s a fact that people send a lot less traditional post these days, at least in Sweden.

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Top 10 Firebelly Blog Posts of 2010

Firebelly

Here are the 10 most viewed posts on the Firebelly blog in 2010. Thank you to all who read, commented, contributed and shared this past year. . 10. The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On. 9. Social Media Bootcamp: Facebook for Business. 8. Facebook Fans Mean Business (And Are More Likely to Buy). 7. 3 Easy Ways To Make Your Facebook Page More Welcoming. 6.

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Who Knew Paper Towels Could Be This Fun? « Social and Logical

Social and Logical

A people-centric look at social media Search Social and Logical About Who Knew Paper Towels Could Be This Fun? 28 Dec Social media usually works best when its has to do with topics that people naturally enjoy talking about. Do we converse about soap, toothpaste, window cleaner or detergent during the normal course of our day? Maybe if we are discussing chores or errands.

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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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Why Joe won’t renew with ASAE in 2011

SocialFish

Joe Flowers of the National Association of Dental Plans has a MUST READ post up: Why I won’t renew with ASAE in 2011. I was going to excerpt from some of the many comments – both pro- and con- association membership – but I think it’s worth reading the whole conversation. I hope SocialFish readers will add your thoughts. The world is changing around associations in so many ways.

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Facebook Shares Jump 80% in 3 Months at Private Auction

Idaconcpts

What is the hottest stock that is not-yet-available to the seasoned, diaper-clad online ‘toddler traders’ from the Ameritrade commercials? Unsurprisingly. Facebook. The Palo Alto-based social networking giant is a privately held company, and its shares are not listed on the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange alongside Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, or any of the other publicly traded Silicon Valley behemoths – at least for now.

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Customizing the new Facebook profile

Freelance Social Media

I’m sure over the last few weeks you’ve noticed Facebook has been rolling out a new look for profiles. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when it comes to the new profile: Photos at the top. The photos at the top display the last five recent photos you’ve been tagged in. In case you’re not happy with what is displayed, you can simply hover over the photo you’d like to remove at the top and click on the little ‘x’ Featured Friends.

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How People Made 2010 What It Was

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How People Made 2010 What It Was December 31st, 2010 Tweet Just a few more hours before we put our 2010 calendars away and start our New Year, eh? My, time flies. In a bit of a reminiscing mood, these were the highlights of 2010 for me. 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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Happy 2011 from the SocialFish

SocialFish

On this 31st December, in lieu of a SocialFish “predictions&# post or a “trends&# post, one of both of which may or may not happen later in January depending on inspiration levels, I thought I’d point to two interesting interviews I’ve come across lately, both of which talk about the near-term future. In the first, Evan Williams: The Challenges of a Web of Infinite Info , Om Malik interviews Ev Williams, CEO of Twitter.

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SL's top posts 2010 | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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8 Open Source Projects from Google

Idaconcpts

For many Google has become the patron saint of open source, and the number of open source projects Google supports or directly develops seems to increase every day. Some of Google’s own open source projects, like Android, have become as common as their proprietary competitors, yet many do not even realize they are using software with free and open source components.

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Weekly Roundup: The Boxing Day Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Boxing Day Edition December 26th, 2010 Tweet No more fun and games With the buildup to Christmas, are you feeling deflated now that the actual day is over? No more presents, great food and holiday cheer, you think?

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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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Bacha Party Wishes You a Happy 2011

The Marketing Blog

Today is the first day of a new year, first day of a new decade and marks the beginning of a new initiative. It is called “Bacha Party&#. Bacha Party is a little initiative to start a social media movement for driving the eventual goal of organizing small parties for the street kids of India. Parties? Yes, Parties Anything which makes the kids happy and enjoy, so it could be a trip to the ZOO, a classroom session which teaches them the basics of English language or even a coffee outing at

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Seeking Guest Authors for Weekly Series

Ari Herzog

Do you have a strategy or tip on social media marketing you’d like to share with other readers? Want to be featured with other guest authors ? If the answer is yes, consider writing for me. I’m looking for people to write about best practices in social media and how different tools can be used in new and innovative ways. Maybe you have your own blog and seek a new audience.

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Tapping into the mind of the crowd

Janet Fouts

One of the beauties of social media is the opportunity to ask your network and extended networks a question and get an answer quickly. Often it comes from from people with hands on experience. If you need to know about how long an open bottle of wine will last , a trick to make your web site load faster, which video camera to buy or how working remotely differs from in an office, there’s somebody out there who knows and is happy to help.

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Top 10 Firebelly Blog Posts of 2010

Firebelly

Here are the 10 most viewed posts on the Firebelly blog in 2010. Thank you to all who read, commented, contributed and shared this past year. 10. The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On. 9. Social Media Bootcamp: Facebook for Business. 8. Facebook Fans Mean Business (And Are More Likely to Buy). 7. 3 Easy Ways To Make Your Facebook Page More Welcoming. 6.

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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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The 10 Social Media Thoughts You Liked Best

Convince & Convert

Tweet Looking back on an exhilarating 2010, I wanted to take a second to just say thank you. No frills, no flourishes. Just thanks. There’s a LOT of places you could go to get you social media and digital marketing fix, an d I’m incredibly honored that you choose to spend time here. As part of my look back at the ~150 posts that appeared here this year, I sifted the top 10 that received the most page views.

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5 Things to Be Careful About When Driving New Traffic to Your Blog

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Arkadij Shkolnik , PR Manager of SiteValley.com. The popularity of social media resources keeps increasing. Many people use forums, blogs and different social networks for communication and ideas sharing. The business owners are the ones, who participate the most actively – apart from searching for problem solutions and potential partners they set goals to attract attention to their creative projects or businesses via those social media.

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Do Reader Opinions Not Matter?

Ari Herzog

Who defines a magazine’s person of the year? Its editor-in-chief, its reporters and staff, or its readers? Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past two weeks, TIME magazine announced Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as the 2010 person of the year. If only that was true. Readers ranked him in 10th place with 18,000 votes.

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Customizing the new Facebook profile

Freelance Social Media

'I’m sure over the last few weeks you’ve noticed Facebook has been rolling out a new look for profiles. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when it comes to the new profile: Photos at the top. The photos at the top display the last five recent photos you’ve been tagged in. In case you’re not happy with what is displayed, you can simply hover over the photo you’d like to remove at the top and click on the little ‘x’ Featured Friends.

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High Profile Domain Names Suspended Due to Invalid WHOIS Data

Bill Hartzer

When Nikki Craft woke up one morning recently and checked her websites , they were not working. In fact, all 20 of her high-traffic websites were down. After further investigation into the issue, she learned that the domain names had been suspended by the registrar due to invalid WHOIS data on the domain name WHOIS record–here web server was not down.