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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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There are so many layers to this topic that entire (worthy) books have been written on social media philosophy, content creation or audience engagement. With all the dynamics elements to creating a successful social media presence, its sometimes hard to know where to start or even what books are worth the time investment.

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The bus to Hawaii: Marriott boosts Hawaii Bookings 40% with event.

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Marriott Hawaii bookings are up 40%. What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. The result?

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What's your social currency?

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By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Your currency is your social media VALUE.

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Why Buying Twitter Followers Is Damaging To Your Brand

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Your legions of bots and fake accounts won’t support your book/speaking engagements/blog posts/personal appearances. Why not just stand on a street corner in a fuzzy bear costume with a “Book For Sale” sandwich board? Community social media Transparency Twitter Vent advice automation personal branding'

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What we can learn from blog firestorms.

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Social media can be such a fantastic place – full of thoughtful, intelligent people. Its easy to imagine that the social sphere or your blog are simply just an adult playground of cool people. It isn’t worth giving up the benefits of free speech for the alternative and so it is with blogging and social media.

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Book Review: APE – Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch

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Stay Akamai: It’s a natural step for bloggers to consider publishing; self publishing books is easier than ever before. As a young writer, actually publishing a book seemed like a pipe-dream, particularly given the fact that I also always dreamed of eating and having shelter. I’ve considered several books over the years.

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5 things I’ve learned from failed blog posts

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Not in my book. We had a small amount of discussion on Twitter around the hashtag #sociallyspeaking, but even that was pretty weak. Does this make that idea and that post a failure? Every single post is a learning lesson for me. Excitement to me, by the way, is measured largely in conversation around the post.

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