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10 Inspiring Examples of Amazing Brand Communities

Social Media Strategies Summit

Herbal tea company Traditional Medicinals has built a brand community around its online publication, Plant Power Journal. The journal is a treasure trove of content on all things herbal tea-related, from product news to recipes ( green tea match ice cream , anyone?). Why We Love It. Why We Love It. Why We Love It.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media (Search Engine Journal): I love how Jennifer Horowitz equates social media with the 7 sins. No, it’s not about the tools!)

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Alice is a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, and co-author of the book Let’s Panic About Babies (due out in March 2011). She is co-authoring a Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies book scheduled to be released in March 2011, and is a regular author at Social Media Examiner. Follow her @aliventures on Twitter.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Etiquette: 20 Do’s and Don’ts to Avoid Looking Like an Ass (Directory Journal): I write another social media etiquette handbook , but I really like this version with more general but helpful things to consider when doing that social media thing. 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start … 2011?

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

Viper Chill

A prediction about the future of blogging; a platform actively used by over 181 million people (Nielsen data for October 2011). A former writer shared some interesting insights with Capital New York : “What we were doing was not journalism. The Daily Mail website reportedly brought in $25m revenue in 2011.

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

Convince & Convert

At SXSW, each attendee had their unique QR code printed on their name badge. Most of them looked like I was bothering them, not one scanned my badge for contact info and only one asked for a business card and connected with me on LinkedIn (it was St. At the end of the day, I hardly used my badge. May go badgeless next year.

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Top 10 Public Relations Blunders for 2012

Bill Hartzer

The confluence of these issues was too much to bear for many Americans: parents pulled their boys out of scouting, corporations such as United Parcel Service withheld donations and adult Eagle Scouts returned their badges. All this excess spending occurred in fall 2011 when unemployment was at 9.1

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