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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Here’s the results for my friend and client Indra Gardiner from Bailey Gardiner in San Diego: Amazing, no?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service? On a near-continuous basis, consumers are asking for help making purchasing decisions.

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JULY 20, 2010

Some of my favs include: Books – Content Strategy for the Web (Halvorson), Letting Go of the Words (Redish) Networks – The Content Strategy LinkedIn group Blogs – Here's a great list from Catherine Ventura (@catherinventura): [link]. Joining the LinkedIn group now. I actually work at Vertical Measures!

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Visually SM

JULY 27, 2020

Here are 24 of our favorite social media tools for saving time, getting better results, and making the most of every single social interaction. Hootsuite allows you to manage multiple social content streams from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. It is one of the most famous social media tools in the market.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? So, I peeked at YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Your LInkedin page. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Your blog, naturally.

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JULY 14, 2010

There is no question social media does an organization good, just persevere and know there is a vibrant community there to support your work. Now, Google creates perceptions and it is our job to engage the communities and instill what perceptions we want seen. The change has come from how people create their perceptions.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? All blog owners should do this to see what their community prefers. In others, they are very different.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think ultimately Linkedin may be in a good position here. Smart, as long as you don't get a backlash or sell out. Mossimo had that rolling until they showed up in Target. link] jaybaer Exactly. Friend has lost value. link] jaybaer How do you feel about the new FB privacy settings?

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AUGUST 31, 2010

If you wanted to create a system that replicated as best as possible the physical act of two people speaking to one another in the same place at the same time, would you build Twitter, or a WordPress comment system, or Facebook, or Linkedin? I’ve seen some linkedin groups with great discussions. Absolutely not.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. Sure, the StachePassions social network (for mustache aficionados, natch) is a little unusual on the surface.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Google+, for example, allows you to link to as many of your other social profiles as you choose”) as well as specific suggestions for getting the most out of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest. Slideshare: The B2B Social Media Powerhouse by Heidi Cohen. Social Media ROI Measurement Guides.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

If you or someone that you find has curated by hand a really good list of Twitter accounts on a topic, we can just suck that whole list in and we’re going to go out and find those people on social networks too. So if you want to engage with them on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., you can do that. It’s sort of a meta-capability.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Over ~30 days, there are 24 sessions about everything social media , and because it’s totally virtual, one registration can cover your entire team or company, and you get access to a registrants-only Linkedin group and other networking opportunities.

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JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum).

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The drawback is that they are only tracking Twitter and Facebook for now, so if you need to monitor blogs, blog comments, discussion forums, Linkedin or anything else on behalf of your company or clients, you’ll need to gather that data elsewhere. The ease-of-use and Excel format of RowFeeder are big pluses for me.

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MAY 19, 2010

I've been posting questions to LinkedIn Answers like crazy, curating the answers I receive, and then informing those that provided the best answers that they've been included in a recent post on our blog (they agree to this first; there is a disclaimer in the question). — [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Great post.

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MAY 20, 2010

However, my preference is for the baby naming approach – selecting key performance indicators (KPI) before a single Tweet is sent, blog post is written, or Linkedin group is christened. This is because social media success is inherently slow , not fast. I’ve worked in both camps, and have seen both succeed.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Katie Morse Community Manager @misskatiemo [link] [link] Katie Morse Jason – great post!

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Today, however, creating truly meaningful success metrics often requires a custom statistical hodge-podge that tries to tie together data points from across the social spectrum. Try to figure out what your Facebook fan page’s impact is on your number of Twitter followers, for example.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? My 4SQ app version is 1.7.0 if that helps. link] jaybaer Interesting Danny. That is troubling.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Succeeding on the social Web requires daily participation. Whether it’s brand reputation management, PR and influencer outreach, customer service and social CRM, interacting with fans on a brand community, or just creating content that builds thought leadership – it all takes time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Most of them looked like I was bothering them, not one scanned my badge for contact info and only one asked for a business card and connected with me on LinkedIn (it was St. Edwards University for their MBA program).

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