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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers. But if you have a good system going internally, then being social, as opposed to simply going social, is a very smart business strategy. Who’s in customer service?

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Small rivers of content for a new discovery system

The Way of the Web

So rather than manually creating your own blogroll, this acts like a distributed network of links, to which anyone can contribute. Which means what normally ends up as a static collection of links often forgotten and outdates instead becomes a more relevant and fluid collection.

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News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? by Adam Sherk on August 4, 2010 The new Digg has gotten a lot of attention for the opportunities it creates for publishers (see ReadWriteWeb and BlueGlass for details).

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Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall by Adam Sherk on January 20, 2010 Today The New York Times made it official that they will be introducing a metered model starting in 2011. Your list gives Letterman a run any day.

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How I Set Up My WordPress Blog In 2 Hours

Waxing UnLyrical

I set up Livefyre as the comment system (‘cos it’s AWESOME and has cut down spam to such an extent on WUL that I don’t think I’ll even need to install Akismet on SO). I set up a basic blogroll, a Twitter widget, a short “About&# page as well as a “© and Stuff&# page.

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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What's a PR Pro to Do?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do? Publishers are desperately trying to come up with new business models and hopefully they’ll figure out a system that works. Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers?