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Use Humor and Ridiculousness to Reach Your Audience

Convince & Convert

Jess Ostroff , Nick Westergaard , Jay Baer , and Tim Washer doing the show live at Social Brand Forum 2013. When he was with IBM, Tim was instrumental in putting together their first YouTube video in 2006. It was a huge hit, he says, because it was surprising that IBM would put out a self-deprecating, funny video like that.

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B2B Social Media: 4 Ways to Sell the Value to Management

Convince & Convert

He has been conducting monthly social media training programs since 2006 and works as an independent online communications consultant to businesses, the US Military, government agencies and nonprofits. When it comes to selling soap, marketing to Facebook’s 500 million members is a no brainer.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They have discussion forums that are visited by moderators who merely police the content itself, but change never comes from suggestions offered in the forum itself or in the posts, even if hundreds of users contribute the same identical observations. I’m going to ask Apple to buy me a Zune. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. You can also measure and track engagement while determining which conversations in chat rooms, forums, etc. This information can be used to improve products and increase profits.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

Well, James, I did take a quick look at the Google support forum thread and quickly figured out that there were several people who took issue with the site in general (like talking about the content) rather than looking and analyzing the issue at hand: which why the site is not ranking as well as it did in the past.