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7 Tips for Staying on Top of the Social Wave

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3) Mobile will be THE social platform.The global mobile market is expected to reach $1 trillion by 2015. Get serious about mobile. Get serious about mobile. Information posted publicly on blogs, Facebook , Twitter , forums and other sites is fair game. Focus on focus- Want to grow your product? Your competitors?

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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. Mobile Innovation; Fostering Soc Ent at universities; Support Women; eHealth; etc. Great discussions. all archived and easily searchable. 7) #Innochat A Tweetchat on innovation. 10) #pr20chat PR 2.0

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Awaken the Sleeping Giant that is Your Customer

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Assuming I know the audience that read this blog, chances are you have some type of input into your company website. and lastly Is it mobile ready or friendly? Either it’s your own personal site, or it’s your company’s. If that is true, then you have to ask yourself a very simple question. Is it easy to navigate?

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10 social sites you might have missed

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It’s essentially a mobile advertising and lead generation tool for real estate sales and marketing professionals. The PPC Blooper pay per click humor blog, with the appropriate URL of… Yourppcsucks. 5) Check out the funky named Goomzee. 6) You knew something like this was going to be created didn’t you?

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The Problem with the Social Web

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In the larger picture of the social web though-there is Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. I’m generalizing blogs, but if you insist, I could go with WordPress, Typepad and Blogger. Consider the following statements: “We have a blog, come read it and find out cool stuff about our company&#.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

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No one had heard of blogs. People used mobile phones to talk. million blog entries every day. The iPhone became the first mobile phone to be used more for data than for voice. Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. Fast forward to 2009.

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Avoid Managing the Minutiae of Social and Search

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There is PPC, there is mobile, local, and of course the whole analytics side of it all. For instance in search, there’s the whole aspect of campaign planning , or the strategy itself before you even launch or relaunch. There is creating search programs just for branding purposes. Social has virtually the same amount of moving parts.