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Using social media across cultures

Janet Fouts

Most businesses are now well aware of the benefits that using social media can bring, such as driving sales, getting customer feedback, building brand awareness and more. However, the majority are still only focusing on major social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. About the author.

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From The Information Age To The Connected Age " GigaOM

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Economist Ronald Coase has proposed that the reason firms exist is to decrease transaction costs. But the web makes transaction costs across individuals and ad hoc groups of people so small as to be unimportant to many web-era businesses. “Management of our growing social network&#. Social Web. 4:48 AM PT.

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Beyond Your Borders: Promoting Your Business Internationally Using Social Media

SocMed Sean

Lingo24 has been helping some of the world’s biggest global brands with their localization campaigns since 2001. I appreciate Christian taking the time to share his thoughts on the international aspects of social media and some tips on taking your content beyond your own borders.

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The Top 130 Minnesota Tech Companies on Twitter

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter is consistently rated as the second-best social network for B2B and tech companies, behind only LinkedIn. Which businesses understand the “social” part of social network, and which are just there to broadcast? tech.mn, Frontend Masters, and Request Metrics are the least social.

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Hawaii Officially Dips Toes in the Waters of Social Media

Bare Feet Studios

However, just because blog software is free and many bloggers are willing to work free for vacations, does not mean there are no real costs associated with new media/social media campaigns. The better social web monitoring services also cost real money, in addition to the time it takes to set them up.

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Facebook Advertising Tricks for B2B Marketers

Buzz Marketing for Technology

If I could offer you a billboard in the middle of Times Square for little to no cost for you to advertise your company would you do it? One of the great things about the Facebook is that it provides you access to a large audience of over 550 Million people worldwide at a very low cost so why not take advantage of it.

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Web Worker Daily " Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive "

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Its’ more cost effective as well; too bad it’s limited (as mentioned earlier) to such a small segment of workers. Bursty then uses a social networking search service to identify two possible links or shared tags between himself and Eargot. Open Thread: What’s Your Social Network Strategy?

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