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Are Social Causes a One Click Pony?

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In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about thousands of Facebook and Twitter users temporarily changing their avatars in support of marriage equality , currently being debated by the United States Supreme Court. Social Media Controversies Addressed, Fresh Each Week. Do You Have Motives, or Motivation?

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Missed Opportunities

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Whether you're using a more complex Social Media monitoring tool like Radian6 or Sysomos or using free tools like Google Alerts and Twitter Search , there really is no excuse not to know what people are saying, where they're saying it, how much of a network they're connected to, and what the overall sentiment is. business book.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

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I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? But, for about 99.999999% of the world, Twitter usage is not an end, it’s a means to an end. Your Twitter goals may vary. 53% of Twitter users never tweet ).

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Should You Be Outsourcing Social Media?

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Mark Evans wrote this week in the Sysomos blog. Instead, they want to create a strategic plan, and then have a partner do the “heavy lifting” such as running Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts. About a month ago there was a flurry of conversion on this subject on Twitter and people on both sides of the argument have strong views.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

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We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. If they are social media savvy, you can follow up via Twitter direct message. Hope the book writing is going well!

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. This is one of my favorite quotes, which I used in my book in the section on social media measurement. Marshall McLuhan.