Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Foursquare awards points and badges when users check-in at locations (check-ins can be done via a mobile phone with internet access or a computer). Businesses can engage and reward consumers by providing deals and discounts to Foursquare users that hold certain badges for checking in and patronizing their business. Get creative!

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general). That’s why every blogger needs some variety in terms of content if they want to be doing this for a longer period of time. Case studies Case studies present a way of solving a problem based on a real-life example.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 4, 2020

When you have a verification badge, everyone who comes across your account will know you are an authentic, trustworthy brand or business. It will be much easier to spot the difference between official pages and fan pages, for example. So, how do you get verified on Pinterest? Keep reading to find out: What Pinterest verification is.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What can a blogger learn from the worst criminals in America? Let the identity serve as a badge of honour. For many entrepreneurs and bloggers, making acquaintances and building friendships lead to interview opportunities, traffic building exercises, and even the odd friendship or two. 4) Always Look to Expand Your Empire.

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Kikolani

MAY 23, 2014

While you can change your school’s name (mine is Kikolani in this example), you will have to contact Kunerango to change the URL that is formed from the school name you choose, so keep that in mind. Best of all, setting up your own online school is as simple as following these steps. Step 1: Sign up for Kunerango.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

If you feel overwhelmed by people battling for mayorships or checking in to earn badges, not to worry – we will walk you through the basics of using geolocation on your website or blog and how to prepare your business for the new service! It is the newest way to draw customers through your door, but is your business ready for geolocation?

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ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2016

Essentially, what most bloggers were doing before this update, was in contradiction to Facebook rules. Branded content on Pages is only allowed from Verified Pages (with the blue badge) on Facebook and must adhere to the following policies. You can read more of those here: Facebook Branded Content Policy and Verification for Bloggers.

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Akamai Marketing

JULY 19, 2011

That post last week was easily the least engaging post I’ve ever written earning me yet another badge of lessons learned. The conversation took place elsewhere: Sometimes, instead of commenting on a blog post, people will choose to engage on another outpost, Facebook or Twitter for example. I mean, it was crickets.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 13, 2019

When I log onto LinkedIn, it’s hard to look at five profiles of marketing professionals and not see a “marketing maven” badge on at least one of their profiles. From the examples above, you should see that they can have compounding and cumulative effects that lead to consistent traffic and lead volume growth .

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

See, for example, the Aitkens wedding blog. See, for example, the H5N1 blog or SCOTUS blog. This is highly evolved blogging as both use of technology and technique which, I think, an ideal that bloggers should strive for. That writer bloggers are going to become the history writers. audience unlikely to grow.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2014

And have you ever wanted other bloggers, journalists and writers to reference you as an expert in top publications on the web? A popular example of social proof is how nightclubs limit the number of people that can come in at a time. Another good example is Ian Brodie’s homepage. This is a guest contribution from Ad am Connell.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Plant +1 badges on all your assets to take advantage of the Direct Connect tool that automatically brings customers and prospects searching in your category to your page.” This tip from guest blogger Mark Traphagen (again) is almost too good to share. Use the +1 and encourage your followers to do the same.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 19, 2019

They are my badge of honour for resisting society’s weaponizing of the female form. ?? For example, mommy blogger Laura Izumikawa shares the ups and the downs of parenting. For example, when Instagram changed its feed algorithm, we saw more people sharing “new post” alerts in their Stories. LOVE YOUR BROWN SKIN.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

The pugilists are plentiful, and appear to be trying to win a merit badge for dismissiveness. The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. But most social media types aren’t Paul Gillin.

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Hootsuite

MAY 13, 2020

I don’t like to be called an influencer,” says Zaneb Rachid, the Moroccan travel and fashion blogger behind The Cherry Blossom, in a Facebook post. “It The capital-C treatment gives creators the option to choose the term for their profile badge. One example of this is the U.S. We don’t use the “I” word anymore.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 7, 2014

The Norton badge works totally fine (it is a pop-up with security information like most privacy badges) so there’s really no need for the link. There’s no badge attached, just the text “About SSL certificates” The exact phrase that Godaddy were using for a lot of their links. (I And on it goes.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

You can’t force people to add that but you can create a page and badges that encourage people to link you and give them all the code to copy and paste. Here is an example: Badges for Podcamp Hawaii fans. the URL being linked to from your site, also has the right mix of keywords in it. It’s not always about SEO.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 13, 2017

Let’s go back to the restaurant example for a second. One classic example is the Solomon Asch conformity experiment that took place in 1951. The restaurant example we gave in the beginning shows how effective social proof can be in an offline setting. Here’s another example from the folks at Appsumo.

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Later

JANUARY 30, 2019

For example, a food blogger might post a picture of a gorgeous smoothie bowl, and then use the hashtags #superfoods , #cleaneating , and #vegansofig when it’s uploaded to Instagram. For example, if you have a branded hashtag for your business , you can invite your followers to also follow your unique hashtag.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, if your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, there’s a badge for you to proudly celebrate this achievement on your site. The article has examples of how social media worked too. David Armano suggests to study out the candidate first; they shouldn’t just be focused on Twitter, for example.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

Recently, a group of green bloggers banded together to raise individual $1 donations from their readers. Embed a Widget on Your Site Many charities offer embeddable widgets or badges that you can use on your social networking profiles or blogs to show your support. These badges generally serve one of two purposes (or both).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Top 10 Attributes of a Successful Blogger : If you like writing, have good grammar skills, are creative, and have an entrepreneurial spirit, you might make a great blogger for yourself or your company! This is a post that looks at some of the high performers and gives examples on how you can do the same. Marketing Automation.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If you’re just doing it for fun or personal reasons, then maybe consider WordPress.com , Tumblr , or Blogger in that order. Anytime someone asks to be a guest blogger, I send them those guidelines. The more traffic you have, the more likely you are to receive links from other bloggers which will give you SEO valued backlinks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here are other examples about how to leverage the popular video sharing site to get a job. Pam’s post has some great examples of how to find those “social media experts&# who just don’t deserve to be hired. 20 LinkedIn Case Studies and Examples for Professionals (Kyle Lacy): How are YOU using LinkedIn?

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 8, 2009

Example: @ijustine I love that song too! Example: d krissy want to pick a Jamba Juice for me while you’re there? Example: whois jack GET username retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person. Example: whois jack GET username retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

If you want to get a group of people such as your best guest bloggers and readers together, be sure to plan it in advance. Want to check-in and unlock a swarm badge? I already know of several meetups for collaborative blogs and blog groups already scheduled so people can meet everyone on the team.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! A List of Social Media Marketing Examples : Peter Kim has an exhaustive list of companies engaging in social media. Why Twitter Matters : BusinessWeek cites examples of why the microblogging website is a must-use for everyone.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

There is some stuff coming out around "Personal Learning Environments" for example, take a look at: ePortfolio Model and the Concept Diagram for Personal Learning Landscape. For example, if you look at the diagram from the post I cited above: Jeremy has a good model of the likely elements along the bottom. where the "."

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general). That’s why every blogger needs some variety in terms of content if they want to be doing this for a longer period of time. Case studies present a way of solving a problem based on a real-life example. Case studies.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

In a room full of 100 people there will statistically be at least two active bloggers. We are closing in on having 200 million active bloggers online, so I want my advice to be relevant and useful for people in the majority of industries. There are more quotes, examples and data excerpts in this post than any other I have written.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Should PR and Marketing pay bloggers to post? Social standing: Whether in Farmville or Call of Duty, you’re rewarded with marks of your progress which give you an element of social standing with your friends – in Farmville it’s buildings, pets and better crops.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

No wonder so many of the more prominent bloggers have turned comments off, particularly when they tend to elicit the most rabid of fanboys for particular companies. The usual example is Fred Wilson’s community at avc.com. But that doesn’t work so well if I just wanted to mention a website name and a link, for example.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 24, 2012

The example he pointed out was the recent announcement that Twitter made that they’re going to be using their tweet buttons to track their users and determine content relevance. Jim : I’m really surprised that that whole badge stuff really didn’t take off as much. There’s so many amazing bloggers out there.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 9, 2010

Note to bloggers: if you point out fallacies in the way companies do marketing, PR and so forth, you can have pretty intense debates. Examples of cyberbullying behaviour are: teasing and being made fun of. NOTE: for overseas readers, Tim Burrowes is a journalist, ex-editor of B&T magazine and others I guess and now a blogger.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Nothing can replace actual human interaction, whether it be a meetup in a city, taking a fellow blogger out for drinks, whatever. I’m a new blogger from [link] and I’m on my way to build my authority as a successful blogger and a networker. think blogger Chris Brogan just filled up my ticker file! socialmedia.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Blogger for Huffington Post and @op_editorial , Marketer, Do-Gooder, Master Surfer! An avid search marketing blogger, he’s written extensively for SearchEngineWatch, SearchEngineLand, SEORoundTable and others. One example, the word: Aware. Award-winning marketing and social media blogger. Founder of 12for12k.org.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Matt Silverman steps through the process of creating cool custom backgrounds for popular social media sites, with easy-to-follow instructions and rich example illustrations. Social Media Employee Policy Examples from Over 100 Companies and Organizations by Social Media Today. What is Social Media Optimization and Why Should I Care?

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