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Panel: Brand Management in the Social Media Jungle

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I’ll be participating Wednesday, September 23, 2009 from 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM (PT) in a panel discussion titled Brand Management in the Social Media Jungle. September 23, 2009 from 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM (PT). We’ll talk about the opportunities and risks of managing a brand in the world of social media. Redwood City, CA.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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Pew Internet and American Life Project, Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009 by Susannah Fox, Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith, Oct 21, 2009. This piece originally appeared November, 2009, on my Very Public Relations column on Talent Zoo. If you enjoyed this article, please feel free to add me on Facebook and Twitter.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent. About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept. Microsoft’s Bing was the surprise hit of 2009, and has started to erode Google’s share of search. Technorati, an early leader in social (media) search, could have owned the space, and maybe they did for a while, but not anymore.

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Social Media and The Myth of Internet Math

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Internet World Stats , for example, estimates as of March 31, 2009, there are 1,596,270,108 people online worldwide. When “pitching&# social media marketing and communications initiatives to management, there is a tendency to overestimate the potential response rate based on the sheer number of people on the Internet. million people.

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More on Social Media and Language Skills

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This year, for example, the New Oxford American Dictionary announced that “unfriend&# was its “Word of the Year&# for 2009. Eventually, many of these words and expressions may make it into the broader language, but problems arise when we rush this process.

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My Brief List of 54 Twitter Rules (Did I Miss Any?)

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Many could be rewritten to simulate a positive spin, like “Be unpretentious” instead of “Don’t be pretentious,” but they seem more instructive the way they are. Did I miss any? Any you strongly disagree with? Add your top Twitter rules in a comment before Nov. This was originally published as My Brief List of 53 Twitter Rules.

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