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Top 5 Signs Your Business Should Not Be Using Social Media

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If this is your primary activity online, you are not a marketer. Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Social media provides a larger platform to be who we are and amplifies the voices of those talking about you. You are a spammer. Your Business Sucks.

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Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends | Almost Savvy

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Social Networking Lines Get Blurred With the unprecedented growth of Facebook, it has become the largest social networking platform by far. The presentation highlights research done to understand how real-life networks work and how current social networking platforms, like Facebook, work with or against these existing relationships.

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Creating Evangelists: Social Media the Cirque du Soleil Way

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A key part of a successful social media business strategy is identifying those with influence and an interest in your brand, and then finding a way to engage them turning them into fans and evangelists. Have you seen examples of brands using social media well or others missing the mark? This strategy was definitely in play here.

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Adventures in Social Networking with Mom and Dad | Almost Savvy

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Ready for Yet Another Social Platform? ORM and the Dark Side: Astroturfing, Flogging and the Viral Marketing Campaign that never was Reply Irene Koehler says: September 18, 2009 at 3:32 pm You’re absolutely right. Is SocialShield the Answer? I Don’t Care Where. Here Comes Google Buzz Happy Holidays!

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TrueTwit: Managing Spammers on Twitter. Does it Work? | Almost Savvy

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For those of you not currently using Twitter, some brief context: Twitter is a fabulous platform which allows one to easily connect with other like-minded people and businesses of interest. Enter TrueTwit , which markets itself as the “Validation Service for Twitter.&# Does it Work?

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I'm Engaged! (4 Tales of Accidental Twitter Friends)

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As with other networking platforms, I use Twitter primarily for business purposes. Jim is a super-smart marketing mastermind and is also the brains behind The Tech News Blog and The Ideas Blog. Quick Internet marketing tip! No, not that kind of engaged. Over the past year, we’ve become fantastic friends.

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Top 5 Signs Your Business Should Not Be Using Social Media

Almost Savvy

If this is your primary activity online, you are not a marketer. Using digital platforms successfully to build community, relationships, and trust is an iterative process. Social media provides a larger platform to be who we are and amplifies the voices of those talking about you. You are a spammer. Your Business Sucks.