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17 Tweetchats for Social Media, Marketing and PR folks

Direct Marketing Observations

6) #Hcsm The Health Care Communication & Social Media community hosts a weekly Twitter conversation about communication and marketing practices by Health Care organizations, including use of social media. 11) #SEO411 Weekly chat to collaborate with colleagues and other marketers about their questions and ideas about SEO.

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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity SMM

Cheryl and I thought it would be a great idea to collaborate on this special social media project—and so the process began for creating the 2011 #Nifty50 List of Top Twitter Women. Jenara is an Asia-based filmmaker, organic farmer, and freelance journalist for Fast Company magazine and CNNGo, as well as a Harvard and Berkeley grad.

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The Role of Community in Modern Branding

Pixlee

organization with a human being or human experience – not a huge corporation. A recent Harris poll shows that fewer than 20 percent of consumers feel a sense of trust when it comes to companies in the financial, pharmaceutical, and health insurance industries. plenty of room for communication and collaboration. technology.

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Connecting 2 the World: Lessons learned from New Communication Technologies in Organziational Life

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In each of the units, there were some commonalities: a different way to access to information and share information, new organization, different means of communication and (with that) new communication skills, and a greater level of work and personal life intersection. The result is less formal communication (i.e.

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KMWorld.com: What are people searching for and where are they looking?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Collaboration. Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences. Although 54 percent of the companies and organizations polled had site search engines and 35 percent had intranet search engines, Figure 1 on page 9 (KMWorld, Vol 17, Issue 3) shows that 62 percent of the respondents looked first on a Web search engine. KMWorld NewsLinks.

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The power of social listening for healthcare organizations

Sprout Social

It has pushed some hospital systems, professional societies and pharmaceutical companies into an unflattering limelight, as patient and provider criticisms go viral. Risks like this have caused healthcare organizations to recoil, and grow cautious of being present on social channels. Of course, crises can be external, too.

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

Convince & Convert

But I get a lot of questions about why I like particular tools better than others and how I decide to use which, so here’s a summary of my thought process that I hope will help you make a similar decision for your client or your organization. Are you working with a team or collaborating with a client? •