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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

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Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

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Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. The contrast in social media is stark: to build a community, we shouldn't ask who we can reach with what message, but rather, who are our fans right now and how do they talk about us. Does that make sense?

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link] Katie Van Domelen I actually haven't used SM2 since it switched from Techrigy to Alterian so I had to call them and ask a few questions to refresh my memory. The closer we get to a tool that will incorporate both monitoring and management in one, the better. Is that not true?