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14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

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This past Tuesday on our weekly Hashtag socialmedia tweetchat , we were honored to have one of the classiest people I’ve gotten to know, host our chat, BL Ochman. 5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags. What’s great about this list? Be part of the conversation.

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17 Tweetchats for Social Media, Marketing and PR folks

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4) #Blogchat is a chat on Sunday nights from 8-9pm CT that was started by @ MackCollier to discuss blogs and best practices. 15) #Solopr Open discussions that serve as a companion to the SoloPRpro.com blog, designed for independent PR and MarCom pros – and those who’d like to be. Great discussions. 10) #pr20chat PR 2.0

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The Problem with the Social Web

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Sure we might get a recommendation or suggestion from someone, or we might be motivated by some type of incentive-but ultimately, you make the choice to choose… Two years ago my friend Jason Breed and I created Hashtag Socialmedia - a tweetchat that revolved around talking about the business of social media. The point is this.

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The Dawn of Social Mediocrity

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I know that if I use the term “western saddles” as a key word, page title, hyper link, hashtag, splog site or blog post in some social networks or platforms, the likelihood of you finding or landing on my pages might be pretty high. You continue to search for info about saddles.

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18 reasons a social media snake oil salesman might want out

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5) Spamming hashtags wasn’t driving any business. 15) You hate creating content and no one was coming to the blog. Tags: Facebook Marketing SEO/SEM Social Media marketing blogging social media Twitter marc meyer social media today social media snake oil. 4) Stealing other peoples content was hard work.

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This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

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So many strategies stop at the tools so you end up with a blog or a Facebook page and the strategist goes home. Tags: hashtagsocialmedia social media marc meyer jason breed Kyle Lacy hashtag social media. Consider how your consumers view you online and where they view you. via hashtagsocialmedia.com.

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This weeks #socialmedia tweetchat topic: Engagement Through Customer Service: Your Contact Center & Social Media

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Consider a blog regarding a comparison of cameras debating which to get. As always, the chat will be Tuesday (01/05/10) at noon EST. You are invited to join the discussion or at least follow along by tracking the hashtag #sm41 and be sure to include it in all your tweets. Another way to follow along is to use our LIVE page as well.