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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy.

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You Become What You Measure

Social Media Strategery

We use tools like Sysomos and Radian6 to track millions of social media posts. We use social network analysis to determine how messages flow from one person to another. We can even use cookies and web analytics to optimize the actual content that you see when you visit a site.

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The Career Path of the Corporate Social Strategist: An Introspection

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“The Social Media Strategist must choose one of two career paths – build proactive programs now…or be relegated to ongoing cleanup as social media help desk.&#. Be Proactive or Become ‘Social Media Help Desk.&# Summit and Gov 2.0 Expo. .&# Summit and Gov 2.0

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Gov 2.0 Jobs, Moves, and Opportunities

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Gov 2.0 Development Social Media Gov 2.0 Strong organizational, analytical and communication skills are key to successful performance in this position.

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Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 and Do It Already

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 Development , Social Media Stand Out and Do Something! Time to step out of the echo chamber of the social media blogosphere.

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Create Content for Humans, Not Machines

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Rather than solving problems, telling stories, and collaborating with our customers, we’re poring over analytics and algorithms to figure out ways to optimize clicks and shares. Creating content for a social media platform is a lot like feeding the slot machine – put in a lot of cheap coins to trigger an algorithm and hope for a jackpot.

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Your Best Content May Be Right Under Your Nose

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Brands are making the same mistake that newspapers and other media publishers have made. As Quartz put it in a recent article , “humans are losing the battle against Kardashian-loving algorithms for the soul of new media.”. Analytics and algorithms have emerged as key weapons in capitalism’s brawl with journalism across the web.

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