Thu.Apr 07, 2011

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The Stats Behind the World of Quora [infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet There has been a lot of buzz about the rather new social Q&A platform called Quora. As stated in the infographic, people use Quora for different things. Some like to use it specifically as the question and answering platform, others like to vote on answers or to send private messages to users of same interests. As the infographic also demonstrates, the number of Quora users are on the rise.

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Why Do We Need a Social Media Policy?

SocialFish

While giving a webinar, Managing the Risks of Social Media , for Higher Logic , I got an unexpected question: “Why do we need a social media policy?” My first thought was Duh! Of course you need a social media policy. The structure and need for social media policies or guidelines have gotten a lot of press and more is written every day. Every social media practitioner ( Maddie, Lindy , and me to name a few) will tell you that you need one.

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10 business buzz words we can do without

Socialized

As Agent Scully once said, "not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to deceive, inveigle and obfuscate." But business jargon is designed to do just that. It should never be used in any setting, but it is obviously here to stay, so all we.

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Consumer Empowerment or Why Brands Can’t Afford to Falter

Direct Marketing Observations

Danny Brown is right. 2 days ago he wrote a post about brands that drive customers away. Essentially saying/asking, why give your customers, the loyal one’s, a reason to leave. I loved his examples and his post is a quick must read. But let me take his thought a step further. Recently WebTrends released a whitepaper in which they analyzed the website traffic of Fortune 100 websites based on ‘unique visits’.

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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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Please Vote for the NOW Revolutionary of the Month

Convince & Convert

Real-time business is about capitalizing on opportunity. About keeping your antennae up and finding a way to engage with speed and context. Last month, Amber Naslund and I named our first NOW Revolutionary, someone who’s living the faster, smarter, and more social principles we wrote about in The NOW Revolution. Our first winner was NOW Revolutionary – George Jordan from the Hotel Felix in Chicago.

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EzineArticles Says Keyword Density Is Important | Small Business.

Small Business Mavericks

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Newsworthy Blogging | Social Geek Radio

Saying It Social

Click to listen live 4/07/11 at 9pm ET! Blogging is all about communication. Anyone can become an online publisher and build an online community. On this episode of Social Geek Radio we discuss what is newsworthy in blogging with Susan Young , President, Get In Front Communication. Susan has 25 years in news, communication, and PR. She is an award-winning radio news director, reporter, and on-air anchor.

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LEGAL MARKETING: WHAT TO DO NOW? #LMA11

Myrland Marketing

I’ve been attending the Legal Marketing Association’s 2011 Annual Conference for the past 3 days. Right about now, I become slightly passionate about what I’ve experienced at the conference. After last year’s conference, I was driven to write this post titled #LMA10 Conference – My Message To Marketers. I tend to feel protective of lawyers [.].

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Identifying and Engaging Influencers Where Social Media and Email Integrate

Social Email Marketing

How do you determine an influencer in the social media world? What do you do with these influencers once you have identified them? Many monitor online influencers using parameters like Klout, the number of Twitter followers, etc. But, is that relevant? Maybe the answer lies in a combination of.

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Social Media ROI a video review

Jeff Esposito

This post contains video, if you can’t view, please click here. The title of Oliver Blanchard ‘s Social Media ROI is a bit misleading. While it does talk about ROI in some areas, the book is a good roadmap for companies and practitioners looking to institutionalizing social media within their company. I suggest picking up a copy today for your usage.

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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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Google’s Panda Update—the Lessons I Learned

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Kevin Sanders, of strongandfit.net. Things were going well over at my fitness blog. I was not an A-lister, but traffic was steadily increasing. I was starting to get ranked for several lower competition keywords. Organic traffic was improving. Then suddenly my search engine traffic dropped dramatically. I was apparently one of the casualties of Google’s so-called Panda update.

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Lessons to learn from Blekko and T-Shirt marketing

The Way of the Web

You may or may not have heard about a relatively new search engine named Blekko – and fortunately it doesn’t matter hugely in the context of this post. If you’re interested in playing around with data and search, then it’s definitely worth checking out, but the important thing for this article is in the picture: It’s a picture of a T-Shirt sent to me by Blekko.

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Cartoon of the day

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Dear CEO: I’m Right Here But You Don’t See Me

Waxing UnLyrical

This is a bit of a different post today. It begins with a letter. Dear CEO, I know you’re happy at the recent, positive, publicity for your organization that your PR team has been generating. And I know you’re hoping that this will translate into a more profitable bottom line for the company. But remember when you asked me, “What is the most important audience for us to reach in order to spread our message?”.

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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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15 Blogger Resources Not Previously Featured on ProBlogger

ProBlogger

This is a guest post by the creators of the new site Bloggers’ Domain: 369 (and counting) blog tips, tools and resources. One of the most exciting things about being a blogger is finding new ways to improve your blogging experience. Whether that’s by implementing a new plugin to give your site extra functionality, finding an untapped traffic source to boost your reader numbers, discovering a resource that will help you create more entertaining posts, or learning of a website that’ll reignite you