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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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2011 was a game changing year in social media. In some ways, social media is growing up, but in other ways we’re just getting started. I’m putting my Carnack hat on and writing down the trends I see in social media for 2012. Further segmentation of social platforms.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

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The White Rabbit was talking to her, but much of it was non-nonsensical, Alice was intrigued, so she began to follow the talking White Rabbit, until she found herself falling into an endless, cavernous rabbit hole, when she finally stopped falling, she found herself in another world.Wonderland, also known as Social Media.

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A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach

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THEN, I’m going to tell you why its relevant to social media. How does Kaizen relate to social media? have when beginning a social media program. If we’re honest with ourselves, the only reason businesses today don’t employ social media already is because they are afraid.

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What's your social currency?

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By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Your currency is your social media VALUE.

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Tool Tuesday: PostRank Analytics

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Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. While most of this isn’t a surprise if you are monitoring your social media efforts, it is helpful to see it so cleanly laid out and including other sources besides Twitter.

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Why Social Media Inactives Have No Impact on Social Business Value

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The conversations have centered around three schools of thought: 1) investors are getting ripped off 2) social advertisers are getting ripped off 3) businesses using social media are getting ripped off. In short: what’s the business value of social media considering the inactives? Here’s why.

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The REAL Lesson in the NRA Twitter Post

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The Real Social Media Lesson Behind the NRA Twitter Post After the Aurora Shooting. But for those of us in social media, the lesson here is a little more nuanced. The Tweet appears to have come from the Hootsuite management platform and has been widely speculated to have been scheduled in advance of the news.

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