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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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Social media, particularly its use in business communications, is still in its early days, and like anything new and different, there’s plenty of mythology surrounding it. and went on to cite statistics that show both e-mail and social networking use on the increase. The CEO Needs to Blog. But its reign is over.”.

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Five Easy Steps to Social Media Karma

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It's a tough world out there, and you, as a regular user of social media and social networks, have the chance, every day, to make a difference in someone's life. Here are just five suggestions for how to do that: Leave a comment on a friend's blog. Commenter identity systems have.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. Location-Based Applications Will Dissolve Into General Social Networks. Oracle has Beehive , Microsoft has added social capabilities to SharePoint , SocialText is in the enterprise, as is IBM’s Lotus Connections , but no category killer has emerged.

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How the Economy and Social Media Are Ruining PR

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The combined effects of social media and a down economy are ruining the PR industry. Social media is seen by some companies as the new PR. Social media is now playing that role. “Why pay a PR agency when we can tweet on our own Twitter account and post to our own blog?&#. Here’s how.

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Socialized Joins Social Media Informer August 25 Launch

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If you're a regular reader of this blog and you're very observant, you may have noticed the Social Media Informer badge on my right sidebar. I was asked to participate in this week's launch of this new site which looks to have a great strategy for aggregating and distributing social.

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Six Social Media Predictions for 2010

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About a month ago, I wrote about my five social media predictions for 2010. Social media and careers are covered by prediction #6: “In 2009 we saw a couple of interesting surveys by respected organizations indicating that recruiters are increasingly using or planning to use social media to find and investigate talent.