Tue.Feb 21, 2012

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My dad died last night. It was too soon.

Socialized

My dad died last night. It was both brief and a long time coming. When my mom told me I was very angry. Our life together was not done. It was too soon. I want more time with him. I wanted to hug him again, and see his smile, mischievous.

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Expectations of Facebook Timeline for Brands

Mindjumpers

Tweet Just a few days back, we wrote on our blog about Timeline for Pages, trying to guess how soon would it come out and how would it change the face of brand pages in the coming times. Well, we wouldn’t have to guess for long, because Facebook is expected to go into detail about the new pages at its first-ever fMC event , a day-long conference in New York on February 29 specifically for marketers.

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The Evolution of Our Data Fixation in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

Six years ago, we were talking about the growth of blogging and MySpace. In 2006, Radian6 was founded by Chris Newton (@ cdnewt ) and Chris Ramsey (@ chrisramsey ) Back then monitoring and listening were a novel concept, but they knew that social wasn’t a fluke. Five years ago, hundreds of millions of people around the world were starting to visit social networking sites each month and many were doing so out of curiosity on a daily basis.

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What’s the ROI of Social Media Silence?

Akamai Marketing

If you read this blog with any regularity, you know that I am a big proponent of measuring social media. I’m bullish on measuring social media because I believe there are so many incredible ways to measure social media success that the larger challenge is narrowing down your goals.While I have a methodology that I use, there are literally thousands of tools to help you measure social media.

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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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Whither #measurePR? Right Here!

Waxing UnLyrical

I know. I’ve been shockingly lax in posting your #measurePR Twitter chat updates recently. I’m sorry! I’m hanging my head in shame! (Just like that gal over there). Image: Sagrado CorazĂłn via Flickr, CC 2.0. But sometimes stuff happens, y’know… Anyway, here they are. #measurePR on Jan. 24 with Alan Chumley. As a quick recap, we’re first going back all the way to January 24, when Alan Chumley , one of the smartest people I know, came back to the chat after aeon

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(Video) 4 Mistakes You Make When Posting Video on Your Blog

Convince & Convert

Guest post written by Rocky Walls , who has more than 10 years’ experience in digital content creation. As CEO of 12 Stars Media Productions , Rocky works with businesses to create video that’s so real and simple it changes audiences into relationships. It’s no secret that embedding videos on your blog post is a great way to attract readership and conversion.

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How to Use IFTTT to Automate Search Engine Optimization Tasks

Bill Hartzer

If you have ever worked with an auto scheduler for tweeting , you know how useful they are. Its great to be able to schedule automated tweets to be tweeted at various times during the day, or week without having to be there to tweet the messages. If this, then that. Of course, sometimes this type of automation backfires, like when your plans change, and you’ve been tweeting about having a great time at destination A, while you are posting pictures, and status updates about being at destina

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How Average Players Use Twitter and a Human Voice to Become Social Media Superstars

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Have you heard of Brandon McCarthy , Paul Bissonette , Pat McAfee , and Antonio Brown ? If you're like most people, you probably haven't. We're not exactly talking about Kobe Bryant or Derek Jeter here. Why would you know anything about a middle of the road starting pitcher, a left-winger with 5 career goals, a punter, and a wide receiver who has been a starter for exactly one season?

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Digital Leaders Seeking Digital Leaders

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Twist Image is hiring. While I do my best to not use this space to self-promote, the Digital Marketing agency that I own (with my three other business partners), Twist Image , continues to experience explosive growth. We have offices in both Toronto and Montreal and employ over one-hundred full-time Digital Marketing professionals. We've had a great few years of record growth (with lots of great new client wins too) and this requires more people (hopefully, like you) to join our team.

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Social Media Networking: Gone Is The Luxury of Privacy

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Over the past going, on eight years, of working in the social media industry I've had the pleasure of interviewing many amazing people. One question I often ask is, "What does social media mean to you?". Sometimes the responses focused on the defining the tools like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs. Other times the answers centered on building customer relationships.

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Social Media Automation 101

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Consumers Control The Brand (And Other New Media Myths)

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Marketers don't control their brand. the consumer does. It's been the battle cry of Social Media enthusiasts since The Cluetrain Manifesto was first published over a decade ago. If "markets are conversations," as The Cluetrain Manifesto says, then we can't be so presumptuous as to assume that the marketers can both control or lead the conversation, can we?

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Making heads and tails of the new Facebook Insights

Jeff Esposito

To get to your Insights click on the "Insights" link on the left hand side of your fan page. If you manage a Facebook page for a company, entity or personal blog you are probably aware that Facebook has rolled out a new Insights tool. Instead of the bare bones metrics from the old Insights tool, the new tool offers more data than most folks truthfully need.

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Blog Smarter: Turn Your Blogging Skills into Successful Affiliate Promotions

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Regine Becher of Syndicated Partners. Like most bloggers, you probably want to make some money from your blog. Chances are good you’ve tried things like writing product reviews or putting banners or links to affiliate products into your sidebar. But while many bloggers have mastered the “Art of Blogging” (or at least the basic principles) successfully, earning money from your blog doesn’t seem to be that easy.

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The Million Dollar Mindset – How to Create a Website and Sell it Off for Six Figures

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The following is a guest post written by Patrick Meninga of Make Money With No Work. He recently built and sold his flagship website for $200,000. I want to tell you about the mindset required to create wealth on the Internet. The actual mechanics of building successful websites are actually pretty basic: you put up useful content, gain authority, build links, get readers and subscribers, and so on.

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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 Two Core Elements of B2B Social Media Marketing Success

Webbiquity SMM

There have been numerous models proposed for social media and content marketing (including the Four C’s of Social Media Marketing model previously published here), but when all of the complexity is stripped away, social media marketing success comes down to two core elements: content and amplification. Content is like singing a song. Amplification (done well) is like singing that song into a microphone.

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The Last 30 Years Of Social Media Infographic

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