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Think Twice About Automating Your Social Media Efforts

SocMed Sean

I recently participate in an Twitter chat where the conversation turned to whether or not it’s a good idea to automate social media activities. Personally, I do leverage tools like Paper.li, but as an aggregation tool, not for the purpose of filler tweets. Do you automate your social media activities?

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant

Jason Yormark

Hell, even I’m guilty of over saturating my twitter feed with social media tweets. I’ve always tried to be fairly grounded and transparent about my knowledge of social media marketing. Below are some of these tools/strategies that I’ve used that may be useful to you in your quest to become social media relevant.

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

Hell, even I’m guilty of over saturating my twitter feed with social media tweets. I’ve always tried to be fairly grounded and transparent about my knowledge of social media marketing. Below are some of these tools/strategies that I’ve used that may be useful to you in your quest to become social media relevant.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

By rewarding people with positive reinforcement for actions taken - much like Foursquare has become synonymous with - Empire Avenue uses a system of Achievements to recognize your progress. The main way the system does this is by using what's known as gamification. Yes, that's an actual term. Below are some examples.

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You Need To Know: Social Media and Retail

Laurel Papworth

I have a lot of friends in Cairns”: which would be irrelevant except that, in social media terms, everybody knows everybody. Foursquare Check-in : Similar to Places, Foursquare has 20 million users with mobile phones checking into restaurants, hairdressing salons and doctors’ surgeries. Never again.”

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. FourSquare/Gowalla.