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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

You can earn money (their currency is "Eaves") by buying other people and you can see your own worth rise by getting other people to invest in you. By rewarding people with positive reinforcement for actions taken - much like Foursquare has become synonymous with - Empire Avenue uses a system of Achievements to recognize your progress.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

SocMed Sean

25) Never, ever, ever buy Facebook fans. Twitter 27) Twitter is not just about people eating oatmeal and sharing where they checked in on FourSquare. 36) Never, ever, ever buy Twitter followers. FourSquare 70) Please don’t publish every check-in to Twitter and Facebook. Don’t buy inbound links.

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Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives.

Social Media Strategery

We talk often about what department should lead social media, how to get leadership buy-in for social media, or what technology should be used, and while those are important discussions to have, you should be focused on identifying WHO should be leading the social media initiatives. thanks for sharing! It's true. BlogWorld Expo Blog [.]

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Social Pros 21 – Joe Stupp, Chipotle

Convince & Convert

I think the thing that struck me as particularly worthwhile talking about today was the deal with Radian6 / Salesforce and Twitter to give them real time firehose access to the Twitter tweets API , which as far as I know Twitter has never done that, has never given an individual vendor access at that level. We should buy TV time for this.”

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

Convince & Convert

FourSquare and Gowalla go Back to the Future The new location-based darlings FourSquare and Gowalla are stealing a lot of the place-based intimacy that originally propelled Twitter. link] larrythewineguy Seems to me you wouldn't put all your eggs into any one basket, Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare or any of them.

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

Convince & Convert

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). I’ve tried Foursquare , too. Thanks for the Radian6 shout-out! Thanks for the Radian6 shout-out! I also use Foursquare on the Blackberry.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Amber is the VP of social strategy for Radian6, business and communications strategist, and co-author of the The NOW Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social with Jay Baer. Follow her @allison_boyer on Twitter. Amber Naslund. Follow her @thecreativepenn on Twitter. Follow her @kriscolvin on Twitter.

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