Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Tweet Guest post by Connie Bensen , the Director of Community Strategy and Social Media at Alterian , which provides leading marketing products for the enterprise. They create pockets of communities where like-minded people share information and seek advice. Locations of communities online & offline. So why bother?

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A common mistake in social media is that companies will dive right in, setting up a Twitter account or Facebook page and blasting out tweets and status updates about their latest company news and new product announcements—and then wonder why their Twitter following isn’t growing and there’s no interaction on their Facebook page.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 26, 2010

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. Nielsen and Facebook recently joined forces to develop effective, and almost real time ad effectiveness solutions.

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Cymfony Social Media Tools SM2 152

Webbiquity SMM

MAY 3, 2011

Expert Community Manager with the Focus Expert Network, a network of thousands of leading business and technology experts who answer questions and post thought leadership content. Connie is the Community Strategist for the Alterian (formerly Techrigy) SM2 social media monitoring platform. Becky Denniston. Connie Bensen.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. We also find Facebook fan pages that try to explain product features (wrong again, as it’s unlikely that non-customers are going to fan your page, thus talking about features is preaching to the converted).

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Tamara Mendelsohn of Eventbrite details five guiding principles for promoting events, including choose the right platform, publish your event to Facebook, and “define success metrics and don’t underestimate the effort required.&#. Cohen describes how GE found success with a private social media community. by iMedia Connection.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients? How can we make a viral video that gets thousands of views?

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