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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

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Hailing from San Antonio, Alicia is founder and CEO of Sanera, a professional development and training firm for sales and business leaders. She describes herself as a “small business coach, speaker, corporate trainer, blogger, singer, lover of life, dreams, family and God.” @AliciaSanera. Connie Bensen. and never boring.

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

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Brian Carroll talks with MECLABS Director of Research Sergio Balegno about the disconnect between social media activity and results in the B2B environment, and concludes that “marketers are expecting way too much too soon.&# Top 20 social media monitoring vendors for business by Socialmedia.biz. by B2B Lead Roundtable Blog.

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Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive | Social Media.

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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. Is this based on your experience or is there research to prove this?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? Because I find that's a typical question for the small biz looking to get started. 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.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

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Chicago-based technology marketer Elyse DeVries most recently worked as Marketing Manager, Demand Generation at The SAVO Group, and prior to that did stints as Marketing Manager, Social Media at Alterian (owner of the former Techrigy SM2 social media monitoring product) and Marketing Specialist, ERP USA at Comarch. And she’s amazing.

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Web Presence Optimization Software Review: gShift Labs

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Radian6 , Alterian SM2 ), or inbound marketing suites (e.g., From a pure competitive research standpoint, gShift isn’t quite as robust as a tool like SEMRush (which provides AdWords keywords and click costs in addition to complete target organic keywords), but it does offer significant integrated functionality nonetheless.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

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Possibly inspired by Social Media is Simpler Than You Think , John Jantsch explores five ways to use social media for common business tasks such as prospect follow-up and market research. Michiel Gaasterland shares his collected list of 500+ case studies, from small businesses to global brands around the globe.