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JUNE 8, 2010

Opportunities Via Geography Recently, I was in downtown Flagstaff (where I live) and used Foursquare to check-in at a local restaurant. That type of rifle shot, competitive marketing would be unthinkable in the “real world&# , but it happens every minute of every day on Foursquare. That’s the Opportunity Economy at work.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members).

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JUNE 3, 2010

The rise of the social media website plugin is allowing its functionality to metastasize across the web to become a part of the infrastructure – Facebook’s little announcement is the first of what will undoubtedly be many such initiatives to make social websites the default. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Social CRM The new telephone. “Social media&# will change customer service more acutely than it will change marketing. Social CRM (customer relationship management) is the emerging discipline of providing personalized helpful, meaningful service and support using social channels like Twitter (and increasingly, Facebook ).

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AUGUST 4, 2010

So stop wasting your energy getting all wound up about 140-character complaints, and direct some of your best thinking to how you can get the people who think you’re as interesting as rice cakes to care about your brand one way or the other. Their brand management account followed me on Twitter after I posted, and retweeted my positive tweets.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve tried Foursquare , too. I also use Foursquare on the Blackberry. Linkedin Similarly, the Linkedin iPhone app has made major strides, and I find myself rarely using Linkedin via a computer any longer. Gowalla For presence-based status updates, I use Gowalla.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. And he wants that kind of technology in a foursquare type of app. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us You’re authorized to create a Facebook Page.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Succeeding on the social Web requires daily participation. Whether it’s brand reputation management, PR and influencer outreach, customer service and social CRM, interacting with fans on a brand community, or just creating content that builds thought leadership – it all takes time.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But, I absorbed many smaller lessons that will help guide my thinking about the conference, technology, and social business in the coming months. There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace.

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JUNE 16, 2010

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