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#LoveCapeTown Campaign Shakes Up “Fam” Trip With Crowdsourced Tips for Travel Bloggers

The Realtime Report

Cape Town Tourism’s most recent marketing initiative used a clever combination of travel blogging, crowdsourcing and social media to draw attention to the city, ranked 23rd among the top 25 travel destinations worldwide in TripAdvisor’s 2012 list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations. Keith Jenkins (@velvetescape) August 4, 2012.

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Channel Partners Conference & Expo Vegas 2012

Kikolani

Last month, I received an all-expense paid invite to the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas from Time Warner Cable Business Class (who I never realized offered web hosting and an array of other services for small businesses ). All of these could have led to meeting new clients for my business. And maybe you should too!

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One week until Social Capital Ottawa

Sherrilynne Starkie

The conference blends formal presentations with community/un-conference style sessions on topics ranging from Twitter to LinkedIn, the technical details of self-hosting a blog to the how-tos of personal branding, and online community building to social media in the workplace. Using social media for research: Social Capital 2012.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Supermoon 2012

Kikolani

The Starving Writer’s Quick Guide to Finding Good-Paying Freelance Blogger Gigs – What sort of clients pay more for blog posts? 5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide – Twitter chat guide: what you need to start a twitter chat event, create a plan, checklist, promotions, analytics and archiving.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Yesterday, Michael Geis t presented a keynote address to the IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit which was held in Ottawa. The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. March 2012: Ottawa’s Twitter top 20. Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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The Oscars: content marketing success

Sherrilynne Starkie

And, while the awards show and its host, Seth McFarlane , were both widely criticized even as the broadcast was just going out for being boring, badly written and not funny, it was a clear, out-of-the-ballpark content marketing success for the global entertainment industry. Top tips for bloggers and brands. That’s box office success.

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How To Start A Blog In 2012

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Starting a Blog in 2012 is a little bit more complex. How to start a Blog in 2012: Choose the right platform. Do the hard work of figuring out if a hosted solution is best for you. I would argue that if you want to start a Blog in 2012, start with reading. Starting a Blog is easy. People want to know who they're reading.