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Battling burnout as a social media manager

Sprout Social

In the last decade, social media has rapidly evolved and become a major element of marketing in all industries. As a result, social media practitioners now play a role in more business initiatives than ever. It can be frustrating when friends, family and even colleagues oversimplify your role as a social media manager. .

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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

The Realtime Report

farms are turning to Twitter and other social media tools as a support group to share information, gain insights and keep customers informed about changing conditions. Using social media and video to promote it, they generated $10,000 in the first 10 days, as reported by Grist.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

The Realtime Report

This led to a series of email exchanges with Betabrand founder and CEO Chris Lindland, who pointed me to a number of other campaigns the brand has done–some of which were created at a series of hackathons that Betabrand hosted this year. Asking your customers and fans to hack your brand is about as social as a social business can get.

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Criticising Social Media ?

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Entrepreneurial resources Enterprise 2.0 35 pm Criticising Social Media ? Jump to Comments Criticizing social media ? Understand Social Media as a Philosophy and its application as a Culture. Criticising Social Media ? Conversations December 10, 2009.10:35

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Marketing, Social Media & Branding Blogs in India

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media themarketingblog@wordpress on Mobile Applying the Johari Window to a s/w Product July 24, 2008.3:37 Who All blog-readers who enjoy following trends/thoughts/insights/analysis on social-media , marketing and branding trends in India. I checked out the list, it is really nice.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. Brand awareness is important, especially when it comes to a web hosting firm that was advertised on a multitude of technology websites. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting.

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Preventing Social Media Spam

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Enterprise 2.0 53 pm Preventing Social Media Spam Jump to Comments Image by Josh Russell via Flickr Sometimes it feels really sorry to see the tactics of a select group of folks in the name of using Social media as a Conversation Medium !