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OCTOBER 19, 2010

While it’s too soon to tell what effects Google Instant might have on your search traffic or how best to adapt marketing efforts, some have speculated that small businesses may be more affected than large organizations. This would mean the same number of organizations competing for a smaller number of keywords. (So

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

So, for this week’s weekly roundup, I thought it would be interesting to share some of the most thought-provoking posts I’ve come across over time (they’re not all new) on how non-profit organizations and cause marketing have been rethinking color. Sign out Leave your comment here. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

Managing in the Virtual or Network(ed) Organization by Jon Husband. During my blogging over the past four years I have pointed several times previous to an article in The Economist from January 2006 titled The New Organization ( The way people work has changed dramatically, but the way their companies are organised lags far behind. .

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JANUARY 24, 2011

As smart WUL readers know, technology does not equal strategy, and it won’t solve all your organization’s problems. Google Grants for Google AdWords Google offers $10,000 per month free advertising to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving the arts, education, health, science, technology, and volunteering.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Lindy : Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) But the bottom line is, it’s VERY important for anyone in PR, whether internally or externally, to understand the messy dynamics of the Open Community around organizations.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Please let me know in the comments. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , How To , Public Relations | Tags: google news , google search , optimize news release , SEO | Comments (4) Site settings comment help?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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NOVEMBER 6, 2010

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

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AUGUST 27, 2010

But that doesn’t mean the social business effort was not successful, or did not create significant value for the brand or organization. And if you have questions you’d like Don to field, do shoot them to me via email or Twitter (DM) ahead of time, or just leave a comment below. Sign out Leave your comment here.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

So I thought I’d take a look at a selection of news organizations to see how many are taking advantage of FBML. News tabs that would work well for most organizations. So the bottom line is that news organizations are dabbling with Static FBML on their Facebook Pages but few are doing anything that is noteworthy. Not so many.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

24% of Twitter users follow news organizations or individual journalists, compared with 16% of social networking users. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Only 3% regularly or sometimes gets news from Twitter.

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 No, I was just a strategic communications consultant who saw that social media was fundamentally changing the way organizations communicated, and I decided that this was an area I wanted to focus on. Government 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

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NOVEMBER 27, 2010

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Because I’ll be the only one there NOT representing a transit organization, I wanted to think of something that I could discuss with the conference attendees that they could actually use. Government 2.0

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

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OCTOBER 9, 2010

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In recent years many larger news organizations were still coming to terms with the need for a social presence and the nature of their participation. PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Are there any outcomes that are standard to organizations across the board? “Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&#

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Aid organizations are racing against time to save as many lives as they can, and what they need most right now is money. Unfortunately there are increasing reports of donation fraud online, so major news organizations are playing a vital role in directing people to credible, legitimate groups. The recent earthquake was a tragedy.

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DECEMBER 24, 2010

Conviction in our work, our clients, our organizations is essential before we can begin to convince them. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Sign out Leave your comment here. Mark as read Approve comment Congratulations for a great post, very creative!

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

At the time, I was working for an organization headquartered in New York, so I traveled there frequently; as a result, I had a ton of reward points on Amtrak and various hotels. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Sign out Leave your comment here. pts Settings.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Because when you live in a world as fast-paced as ours, you just have a few seconds while your potential reader is skimming through her email, or RSS reader, or website, and decides whether or not to click through and read the fully story… or move on. Sign out Leave your comment here. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Standards of quality and editorial voice must be maintained, and news organizations in particular play a more important role in society than simply manufacturing content for the sake of making money from it. If news organizations can’t stay in business, they won’t be playing any role at all.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

. (“Chaddi&# is the Hindi word for “underwear.&# ) As a protest against a right-wing Hindu fundamentalist organization’s assaults on what it termed “uncivilized women visiting bars,&# a tribe of people decided to courier pink underwear to the organization’s offices. Sign out Leave your comment here.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Unfortunately The Huffington Post’s success with search engine visibility has created a “HuffPo effect” in which other news organizations try to copy their blog formula. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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AUGUST 25, 2010

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

by Adam Sherk on June 15, 2010 I have done several posts on news organizations and Facebook recently so I thought it was time to switch things up and look at Twitter again. With that in mind, here are the main Twitter profiles for 30+ news organizations ranked by Impact score: Twitter Profile Impact Score Followers (6/15/10) 1 @nytimes 78.5%

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