Social Media Strategery

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How Average Players Use Twitter and a Human Voice to Become Social Media Superstars

Social Media Strategery

Take a look at their Twitter feeds – they talk about partying, drinking, farts, pranks, and the women they go out with. Do yourself a favor and check out the Twitter feeds for some of the less well-known athletes on Twitter and I bet you'll start re-thinking some of those PR and marketing best practices you've read about.

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Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have

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Amazon has 200 books in their “ social media for business ” category all using the same cliches – have two-way conversations, engage with your customers, be more human, etc. If you give me something (coupons, discounts), I’ll put up with your annoying habits (spamming my social media feeds).

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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

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You can read multiple books for marketing your business on Pinterest. There are more than 5,000 books on social media marketing. Social media is not only not dead, it's so alive that it's become ubiquitous. There are Google+ master classes. You can go out and get a social media certification.

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

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Learned From a Book or From Doing? I think the most successful social media efforts are those that are driven by passionate people who love people and who truly want to change the way their organization operates, not by people [.] [link] Water ionizer Hi, Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section!

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My Social Media Resolutions for 2009

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Re-read the ClueTrain Manifesto - Whenever I feel overwhelmed or discouraged, I find myself going back to the 95 theses at the start of this book to get new inspiration for what it is that we do. In 08, I went from email-only to RSS feeds to EVERYTHING ELSE, and did a lot of reading. and that book forms the foundation.

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Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 and Do It Already

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Maybe someone needs a book on 8 track tape or a beta max video that clearly explains how things change. I have a simple example where a new friend of mine wrote a book on Web 2.0 I have a simple example where a new friend of mine wrote a book on Web 2.0 I have a simple example where a new friend of mine wrote a book on Web 2.0

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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Heroes series to videos, books, and a whole host of RSS feeds, Luke has created a platform that offers value to anyone involved in Gov 2.0, After seeing how government was beginning to use social media, it dawned on me that I could create my own set of aggregated feeds and effectively build my own news site.

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