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Social Sharing – Getting News Content Right in 2011

Proactive Report

Many people on Twitter use hashtags to categorize content, so you should leave space for that too. Take this headline: Social Sharing–How to Get Your News Content Right in 2011 is only 57 characters long. A shortened link URL to the post is 20 characters [link]. That leaves a maximum of 100 characters for your headline.

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12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

Waxing UnLyrical

So I figured I’d start with a post on one of our most successful tactics that helped achieve the 2011 goal for the campaign: tweetathons. The very first tweetathon we held was on June 13, 2011. Decide your hashtag. There is already a level of familiarity built into that hashtag. Background. The Champions.

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7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

so that they’re alerted to those posts, using hashtags to call out and index conversations, a widget that you can add to your blog, posting to multiple “Amplogs&# (the sites you set up on Amplify, though as of now, you can’t do this at one go), and more. You liked this idea too, btw. :) Its amazing how far Amplify has come.

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Snapping at Synapses: Why Digital Death Sucks

Waxing UnLyrical

Hopefully the organization will learn from this and have a more effective campaign for World Aids Day in 2011. I just want to point out that if you search the #digitaldeath hashtag on Twitter you get as much, if not more, derogatory feedback as you do good. This is just an all around miss but, on the other hand, weve all had them too.

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5 People Focused Social and Data Tools You Should Be Using

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s what my Rapportive looked like in 2011: However, once the tool was acquired by LinkedIn, I’ll be extremely blunt and frank when I say it has gone to s**t. A URL to share the briefing with other people. I barely use hashtags at all. It was an internal social CRM of sorts. Social updates. Company competition.

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What Is Newsjacking?

Keyhole.co

The term newsjacking was first used by David Meerman Scott in 2011. You can type keywords, click popular hashtags, follow significant events, be involved in publications, articles, blog posts, and websites of local and national media outlets, subscribe to journalists, and read various audiences’ chat rooms or online forums.

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Making The Most Of A Twitter Chat

Waxing UnLyrical

Anyone can participate if they jump on to the hashtag, regardless of whether they specialize in that particular field or not. The other thing you can do is to go to Twitter Search , plug in the hashtag, and save all the tweets that were generated during the time of the chat. But a Twitter chat? It’s there. It’s open.

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