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How the Economy and Social Media Are Ruining PR

Socialized

Or: The Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation. The combined effects of social media and a down economy are ruining the PR industry. Here’s how. Companies have slashed both staff and budgets across the board, and public relations is no exception. Still, companies will outsource PR as they always have. But if they were once reluctant to pay EVP/SVP hourly rates of $200, $300, or more, then they are today completely unwilling to do so.

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Directory of All Things Twitter – Finally!

Almost Savvy

Home About Testimonials Events Services Webinars Twitter Getting Started on Twitter Webinar Twitter Webinar: Tools and Tips (Intermediate Level) LinkedIn LinkedIn 1 – Getting Started LinkedIn 2 – Building and Leveraging Your Network Ask Calendar Contact Blogging Branding Business Career Facebook LinkedIn Networking Social Media Tips Twitter Lijit Search Directory of All Things Twitter – Finally!

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How I Increased My Twitter Following by 45% In One Week

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / How I Increased My Twitter Following by 45% In One Week | Subcribe via RSS How I Increased My Twitter Following by 45% In One Week September 30th, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share I’ve been fascinated by the art and science of building a relevant network of Twitter followers in the past few months.

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Google Wave for the Virtual Office

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave for the Virtual Office by Jesse on October 1, 2009 Well, we’ve had our invites to Google Wave for a little over 12 hours now and although I may have slept for part of that time I have had some vision for ways that LangfordSevier can integrate this service into our virtual office.

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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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Social Media will Disrupt every Function in your Company

Buzz Marketing for Technology

We are at an interesting inflection point with Social Media today. One that threatens to disrupt and reinvent every function in your company over the next few years. Social Media already has changed Marketing forever. You can’t attend a conference or read a blog post without hearing about the latest in this field. Marketing is still playing catch up and will be for a while since we are still at the very early stages of the Social Media game.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends by Adam Sherk on October 1, 2009 This week Google started embedding a Hot Trends graph at the bottom of search results pages for queries that fall within their top 100 fastest-rising search terms, as seen in this example screenshot: While checking out search trends is interesting for users, it can also be valuable to publishers.

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Google Wave Tips and Tricks, Twitter | Freelance Social Media

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave Tips and Tricks, Twitter by cinta5 on October 2, 2009 Wave Tips and Tricks was started by Sam Davyson Find the wave here The first 7 tips posted are below: 1. Mark read waves as read. This keeps your inbox clearer and makes updated waves stand out.

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Indians in Social Media (2009) «

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Royal Challengers Bangalore Fanatic Fans Challenge Basics of Search engine optimization (SEO) September 29, 2009.11:01 am Indians in Social Media (2009) Jump to Comments By-and-large most of us would agree with that Social media is still in a nascent stage in the Indian context and there is a lot that remains to be explored in the Social media space.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing , Social Media > The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him by Tamar Weinberg on September 29, 2009 Share This is a guest post I wrote for new media and PR expert Brian Solis , but I also wanted to share it with my readers.

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What exactly ARE your ethics?

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » What exactly ARE your ethics? What exactly ARE your ethics? Written on September 29, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media 5 Comments - Leave a comment! A few days ago I recieved a very spammy looking message from twitter user Liquid 4 Health (I’m not going to link to them based on principle).

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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 Wave: Thoughts after an hour of testing

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave: Thoughts after an hour of testing by cinta5 on October 1, 2009 I was fortunate enough to be 1 of the 100,000. Here’s what I took away from an hour of testing Google Wave. Gadgets are fun, but the Extensions are going to be where it’s at.

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Off Topic. Tribute to Disabled Sailors

Buzz Marketing for Technology

2 weeks ago my sons and I had the opportunity to assist at the U.S. Disabled Championship regatta which was being held right here in Greenwich CT. What we thought would be just a weekend filled with helping sailors get into and out of their boats quickly became much more. What we saw not only impressed us but will leave a lasting impression on us for years to come.

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#104: Why I cut up my Credit Card, Do you love your Business?, and.

Taylor Marek

Home About Contact Archives Testimonials Speaking Podcast Chat LIVE Social Media Vault My Inner Circle Plugins eBook Hire Me #104: Why I cut up my Credit Card, Do you love your Business?, and Why Google Wave? October 2, 2009 by Taylor Marek Woot! Second CLEP test is a wrap, and here is an episode before I run off to a weekend of camping! Learning anything new?

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Why I Do Not Use Yahoo Search

Bill Hartzer

First off, let me explain that I have always been a fan of Yahoo! I mean, ever since I first heard the Yahoo! Yodel, I was hooked. I know that Yahoo! Search has always had their quirks and they recently have stated that they’ve not really been a “search destination&# , Yahoo! is a portal. Sure, yes, I get that. But this sealed it for me today.

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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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Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt!

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt! by cinta5 on September 28, 2009 I cannot help but remember Bob Dylan’s song “The Times They Are A-Changin’&# when I think of how some sports teams are handling social media. The Texas Tech football program is the most recent example of the mishandling of social media.

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

Social Media Strategery

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. Development Social Media An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler Mon, Sep 28, 2009 Government 2.0 Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the worl

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#104: Why I cut up my Credit Card, Do you love your Business?, and Why Google Wave?

Taylor Marek

Woot! Second CLEP test is a wrap, and here is an episode before I run off to a weekend of camping! Learning anything new? Is there something you would like to learn about? Let me know! Hope you are sharing what you learn with others! Finances: Why I cut up my Credit Card Figured I’d snip temptation [.]. Woot! Second CLEP test is a wrap, and here is an episode before I run off to a weekend of camping!

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? Yes. Why? Because the SEO Contest that Vizion Interactive is launching today is not a traditional “SEO Contest&# in the sense that SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers or those who practice Search Engine Optimization) are typically pitted against each other in an effort to “rank better&# than another.

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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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Google Wave Invites Coming

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave Invites Coming by Jesse on September 30, 2009 Google announced that they’re going to let 100,000 users into the Google Wave Beta today. I have my fingers crossed for one and If I or Jacinta get in we’ll let you know all about it.

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Resilient and Engaged, DHS Charts a Path Forward | Social Media.

Social Media Strategery

Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof. Development Social Media Resilient and Engaged, DHS Charts a Path Forward Thu, Oct 1, 2009 Government 2.0 The following is a guest post by Tracy Johnson , a member of my team who specializes in developing outreach and communications strategies for clients enhanced by the integration of effect

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#104: Why I cut up my Credit Card, Do you love your Business?, and Why Google Wave?

Taylor Marek

Woot! Second CLEP test is a wrap, and here is an episode before I run off to a weekend of camping! Learning anything new? Is there something you would like to learn about? Let me know! Hope you are sharing what you learn with others! Finances : Why I cut up my Credit Card. Figured I’d snip temptation in the butt. Snip! Snip! Business : Do you love your business?

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Recent Facebook Demographics

Social Media Marketing

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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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Google Wave Invites Being Sold on Ebay

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Google Wave Invites Being Sold on Ebay by cinta5 on September 30, 2009 Google wave invites going for as much as 72 bucks? This has to be breaking Google’s Terms of Service About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog. Owner of LangfordMedia Blog Twitter Technorati Tags: ebay , google wave Tagged as: ebay , google wave blog comments powered by Disqus Previous post: Google Wave In

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Today is World Habitat Day!

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#104: Why I cut up my Credit Card, Do you love your Business?, and Why Google Wave?

Taylor Marek

Woot! Second CLEP test is a wrap, and here is an episode before I run off to a weekend of camping! Learning anything new? Is there something you would like to learn about? Let me know! Hope you are sharing what you learn with others! Finances : Why I cut up my Credit Card. Figured I’d snip temptation in the butt. Snip! Snip! Business : Do you love your business?

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Fear and Loathing in Social Media

Social Media Marketing

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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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8 minute video explaining Google Wave

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe 8 minute video explaining Google Wave by cinta5 on September 30, 2009 Google uploaded this video on Sunday, pretty awesome. Developers Stephanie ( @Twephanie ) and Greg take us through Google Wave. About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog.

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Building Brand Value Through Social Media

Diva Marketing Blog

Recently I had the pleasure to speak at New Media Atlanta about Building Brand Value Through Social Media. Managing a brand in this new social media world is definitely a challenge for any brand steward. A world where the voices of your customers (and stakeholders) can block traditional marketing messages, takes new skills: understanding the culture of the "conversation" and how to join in while maintaining brand's equity and your individual authenticity.

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Easy Database Marketing

Social Media Network Marketing

Some business owners assume that database marketing requires a level of sophistication that is beyond them. While it is certainly true that some systems can be quite complex, there's one powerful database strategy that is within everyone's grasp. The concept of Recency. As long as you have a database that records customer transactions, you can use this powerful concept to help market to people most likely to respond.

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Are You Really Satisfying Your Customers?

Social Media Marketing

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Social Media and Video Games

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Social Media and Video Games by Jesse on September 30, 2009 Not actually part of the game I just downloaded the Uncharted 2 Demo on my PS3 to take a look at what is touted as the best graphics the system has seen to date. When I got inside to check out the options I was greeted with something I certainly didn’t expect; Twitter.