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What's your social currency?

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640 Million on Facebook. Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

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Case Study #2: Community Driven Product Launch. For tracking and ease, the event and its communication was primarily executed through Twitter using hashtag #DaBusHNL. A Facebook page was developed, it wasn’t actively utilized for the short campaign. Background: .

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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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Consumers aren’t likely to just give that information away, businesses will have to get creative to get consumers to connect the dots for them and even then, they are likely to only initially be able to connect the dots with their most active and passionate customers. The curve ball here might be Facebook.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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But understanding how to begin your social media presence is the first phase, building community then analyzing and measure the community and Wikibrands includes those very important topics as well. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

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Let your community see the whole Alice, even with your idiosyncrasies (how DO you keep your hair perfect on this grand adventure?). As your community learns to trust YOU, they’ll see that you’re real and no Cheshire Cat, this will make relationships easier to develop. Who can trust that crazy cat? Tell your story.

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Social Media During Emergencies

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Today I’m enjoying what I’ve tagged as a “tsunami free Sunday” and I’ve had time to think about last night’s activities. I was reliant exclusively on Twitter (mostly), Facebook and my car radio to get updates for the tsunami. Is Twitter today’s warning siren? I wasn’t alone.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

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Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? Or someone said you should so your considering it. But where do you start? Well, its an often overlooked question.