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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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Social media was going to change the world, and I wanted to be at the tip of the spear. I joined a rapidly growing cadre of change agents using social media to radically transform everything from fixing potholes and broken stoplights to managing city budgets. . No one talked about social “content.”

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy.

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Using Social Media to Reach the Hard-Working Class

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They like/follow/subscribe to brands in social media…if there’s a deal involved. They use coupons to save money…but also to get that feeling of “getting a deal” They buy generic brands…but will spend more for “tried-and-true” brand names. They use coupons…a lot.

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Social Media Integration in Higher Education | Social Media Strategery

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana.

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Grading Social Media

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Grading Social Media Mon, Mar 1, 2010 Prof. In last week’s #SMCEDU chat, we discussed the issue of grading students in classes that teach social media.

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Watching Church and State Slide Down the Slippery Slope

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In exchange, all we ask is you provide us with a list of partners we can contact to see if they’re interested in purchasing advertising in the issue. The worst scenario is when a reporter is interested in a story but is only willing to run it if you buy ad space, too. Why wouldn’t they?

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Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives.

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives Mon, Aug 9, 2010 Government 2.0 , Prof. Who leads the social media initiatives then?

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