Top Social Media Informer Marketing Social Media Content for November, 2011

10 Surefire Ways To Avoid Looking Like A Twitter NooB

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

So, you’re ready to Tweet, right? You’ve realized that Twitter isn’t just people sharing what they ate for breakfast and that there might be some real value to engaging with the 100 million active users that might give you valuable insights about your products, services, and competitors. Before you jump in and start tweeting away, here are seven tips that can help you avoid looking like a newbie and (hopefully) avoid some common pitfalls. 1) Don’t Be An Egg – Adjus

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

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

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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Cartoon: Speaking Social Media

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Working in social media in my day job and my night job, I spend a LOT of time around social media geeks. The other day, I overheard an entire conversation that was so full of social media lingo and jargon that it was like a whole new language. While I understood what the terms meant, I asked myself what I would think if I were an executive at a company that just didn’t understand social media.

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Why The Term “Social CRM” Is Just STUPID!

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

There are a LOT of idiotic corporate terms out there. Just hang out within earshot of any corporate conference room and you’ll hear terms like: Ping me when you have some bandwidth In order to accomplish synergy, we need to facilitate a complete paradigm shift If we push the limit, we can really take advantage of the low-hanging fruit Let’s hit the ground running and make sure we accomplish seamless integration Barf.

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10 Surefire Ways For A Business To Fail At Social Media

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

There are a lot of ways to engage in social media, some of them effective…some of them not. If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities. Want to fail at social media? Consider doing the following: 1) Think of social networking in old-school marketing terms – If you’re “segmenting” or “ta

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 2: Real-Life Relationships Matter

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In my previous post in this series, I discussed how blogging and tweeting were key elements to sharing my expertise on intranets. Additionally, I discussed the value of spending time outside of my “day job” exploring social networks, developing ideas about how they could be useful in business, and volunteering on the social media committee at my company.

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Blog Tip – Write For Your Readers, Not The Search Engines

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Every once in a while, a friend, colleague, or client will ask how to improve their blog so they can get more traffic. Before we ever dive into the technology behind their blog, I like to explore their content and their attitude toward the search engines. Sometimes, when I ask whether they are consistently analyzing their previously published content and re-shaping their future content, I get a response like “well…I’m making sure that my titles and content are stuffed full of k

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 3: Combine Talent To Deliver Business Value

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In the first two articles in this series, I talked about how my experience and real-life connections were important elements in getting a job interview and, eventually, an offer for a position as Senior Manager of Social Media Strategy for a digital agency here in Kansas City. For the last 18 months, I have had the pleasure of leading a team of outstanding social media talent with a broad range of backgrounds and skills.

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LinkedIn Tip: Be Sure To Add Skills To Your LinkedIn Profile

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The Skills feature of a LinkedIn profile is one of the most often overlooked features, but one that is critical to anyone leveraging LinkedIn to develop a social network or look for a job. In addition to listing your education and experience, the skills section can help your profile by adding tags that ensure your profile is more attractive to search engines and easier to locate for those using the LinkedIn search.

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7 Surefire Ways StumbleUpon Can Make You A Better Blogger

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

For a while now, I have been hearing stories about how other bloggers are getting great traffic results from StumbleUpon. I admit it, though, I’m a bit late in the game to gleaning the true value of StumbleUpon. Until recently, I just saw it as another social bookmarking tool like Digg , Delicious , or Reddit. And while each of those are important to helping you in your blog distribution plan, I treated StumbleUpon as just another place to submit a bookmark to my site so I could create an

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Holy Cow! Apple iOS 5.0.1 Resolves Some Crashing Issues With The iPad

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

I have to admit, I’ve been pretty vocal in my irritation with Apple recently. After updating my iPad to iOS 5, I converted my previously bulletproof tablet to a hunk of junk that crashed almost every time I loaded up Mail, Safari, StumbleUpon and EverNote. At first, I thought it was the Cloud services introduced in iOS 5, and turning off the services seemed to help at first.

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Google Waves Goodbye To Wave…Should They Do The Same To Google+?

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

This morning I received a very cute email in my Inbox from Google. This is what it said: Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave.

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How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 1: Build Experience Then Blog, Tweet, Collaborate!

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

When people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a Director of Social Media for a digital agency, they usually respond with 1 of 2 questions: 1) Does that mean you get to play on Facebook all day? -or- 2) How did you get that job? While the answer to the first question is simple and a resounding “No!” (see this infographic on A Day In The Life of A Social Media Manager for more on that), the answer to the second question takes a little more time.

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Updated: It’s Your Toilet Calling! What Germs Are On Your Mobile Device?

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

How clean is your cell phone? You’d probably be disgusted to know. Which? Magazine recently conducted a test to determine which was dirtier; a cell phones, or a toilet flush handle. Guess which one lost? The clear loser was the cell phone with the tested mobiles having high levels of faecal Coliforms and Enterobacteriaceae. Yuck! And it’s not just your mobile phone…it’s any technology that you touch with your hands.

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[Infographic] Is Your Brand Really Engaging Or Are You Just Wasting Time With Social Media?

SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Social media engagement isn’t easy. You can’t just create a Twitter handle, Facebook page, and YouTube account and call it a day. It takes time, dedication, and yes…budget. Some brands understand that building relationships with the members of their community takes a lot of planning and commitment. Others just consider themselves successful if they’re tweeting and posting links to their commercials and marketing materials.

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November, 2011

SocMed Sean

10 Surefire Ways To Avoid Looking Like A Twitter NooB

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

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Cartoon: Speaking Social Media

Why The Term “Social CRM” Is Just STUPID!

10 Surefire Ways For A Business To Fail At Social Media

How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 2: Real-Life Relationships Matter

Blog Tip – Write For Your Readers, Not The Search Engines

How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 3: Combine Talent To Deliver Business Value

LinkedIn Tip: Be Sure To Add Skills To Your LinkedIn Profile

7 Surefire Ways StumbleUpon Can Make You A Better Blogger

Holy Cow! Apple iOS 5.0.1 Resolves Some Crashing Issues With The iPad

Google Waves Goodbye To Wave…Should They Do The Same To Google+?

How I Got My Job As Director Of Social Media – Step 1: Build Experience Then Blog, Tweet, Collaborate!

Updated: It’s Your Toilet Calling! What Germs Are On Your Mobile Device?

[Infographic] Is Your Brand Really Engaging Or Are You Just Wasting Time With Social Media?

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