Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. It’s important to claim your brand name across all the major social media platforms.

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Saying It Social

JULY 22, 2010

The advice that gets the most votes by 5pm ET on July 23rd wins an iPad and more importantly to me, some pretty nice recognition in the social media community. “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence.

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 30, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← The importance of experiencing your community How much to launch a new media brand or project? → Google Me – quick thoughts for and against… June 30th, 2010 · View Comments So the rumours are building about the ‘Facebook killer’ being worked on at Google.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Computer Explorers – provides technology education to children ages 3 and up at childcare centers, preschools, private and public schools and community centers. “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

It’s not to say it’s impossible – by building and engaging a community, taking direct paid advertising, or occasionally finding an actually lucrative affiliate deal, bloggers can still build a mini media empire. Why you shouldn’t pay: Having a budget to spend on paying bloggers to post carries some risks for both parties.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 9, 2009

My money would be on Microsoft to be the brand to make it happen. We’re already not far away with many people using online communities to check out videos, images, tips etc during the day to fuel their evening of gaming. I’m just amazed it hasn’t happened in 2009, and definitely predict it’ll occur in 2010.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 3, 2010

Even many of the people who talk about concentrating on engagement rather than total audience numbers appear to be susceptible – there are great communities in places like Second Life, for example, which are being overlooked because it's now seen as old news and not growing as quickly as Twitter, for example.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

votes, comments, inbound links) and web analytics data (e.g. Don’t collect the number of positive, negative, and neutral mentions of your brand in thousands of posts just because that’s what the monitoring tool was designed to do. Tracking sentiment around a brand and its competitors might be important for a product manager.

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Kikolani

JUNE 18, 2010

8 great reasons for private blog groups – great tips on why you should get your writers together, including post promotion and strengthening your community. Scribnia – why you should join this great blogging community. My name = my brand – a reminder that you should keep an eye on the most important brand: you!

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 27, 2012

You might do this with a “best-of” list post or with a blogroll —however you do it, but Google sees you sharing high-quality content with your audience, and rewards you for it. So go and get social, and build a community around your blog. Social media pages are fantastic for building a community—see above.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Comments are the life of your blogging community. To see if you qualify for needing a mobile-friendly theme, go to your Google Analytics and look under Audience > Technology > Browser & OS. These are typically bad news unless you’re talking about a blogroll link with a highly relevant blog. How do you moderate spam?

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