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Social Media Metrics and Conversion

Proactive Report

US businesses have definitely accepted that social media has to be a part of their marketing and PR activity - four in five US businesses with at least 100 employees will take part in social media marketing in 2011, says eMarketer. That’s a big jump from the 42% who used social media in 2008.

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Be Nice When You Say Bad Things Online

Twist Image

Companies like Bazaarvoice (and other competitors) have really matured the space over the past ten years. And, if they can''t, they can just ask their connections via the myriad of social media spaces that they play in. bazaarvoice. social media. bazaarvoice. social media. In the end?

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

This year, colleague Cheryl Burgess and I changed things up a bit, opening the award to nominations but focusing specifically on outstanding men and women who work for technology companies and are active on social media. Stacey is flat-out awesome: Social Media Manager for Vocus/PRWeb as well as serving her country as a U.S.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

There seems to be a distinct collection of sessions, parties, and hang-outs for the social media crowd, and then a completely separate collection for developers, entrepreneurs (and of course film attendees). More so than any other event I attend, SXSW is conference roulette. I’ll write about that soon.