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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer Social

When I first started building Diversability with the vision of creating a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us) elevating disability pride, I kept encountering roadblocks when trying to get the word out. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. 40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community.

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From Living in a Van to IBJ’s “Forty Under 40?: The Daniel Herndon Interview

Firebelly

Here’s a bit of background on my man… Daniel exemplified his good-hearted nature in 2009 with his guerilla marketing efforts for a not-for-profit called Community First Initiative. His creativity and successes put him on the prestigious Indiana Business Journal’s 2011 “Forty Under 40.”

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

The blogosphere has been buzzing recently in response to a Wall Street Journal article declaring that e-mail is dead. Unfortunately, the Journal didn’t say e-mail was dead, but reported on Oct. 12 in Why Email No Longer Rules , “Email has had a good run as king of communications. E-Mail Is Dead. But its reign is over.”.

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PR Is As PR Does

Waxing UnLyrical

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media.

Firebelly

  The article, Appealing to Community , focused on how not-for-profits are reaching out to younger donors with social media while keeping older supporters in the fold. 

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

Waxing UnLyrical

The small community of readers I have built up and learned from would shun me, rightly perhaps. Thanks for sharing the post with your #pr20chat community. And when I started in summer 2009, we wouldnt have paid cash to a blogger we wanted to work with. In journalism, reporters are never outright paid for favorable articles.

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