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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer Social

There were a plethora of events happening in New York City, but I wasn’t sure how to become a speaker. We created our own events After struggling for a while to find events for me and our disabled community members to speak at, I decided to start hosting them myself—and was surprised to find how easy it was.

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Geist said that this sequence of events provided “the first inkling that something might be here.

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How Government Agencies Can Best Engage Their Communities on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

This tool offers account security for a wide range of government agencies: candidates, elected officials, federal and state departments, and party committees in the US, including their staff. Facebook offers a full suite of tools to help agencies make the most of their presence on the platform. Facebook Protect. Interactivity.

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Klout, the Super Bowl, and Our Addiction to Shooting the Messenger

Convince & Convert

According to the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee , Klout was used to help identify the participants, and the list was augmented manually with known local bloggers, gadflies, and connectors. I have addressed it below through cmp.ly (which I love, am an investor in, and very much wish the host committee would have adopted).

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How Public Safety Agencies Can Best Engage Their Communities on Facebook

Social Media Strategies Summit

This tool offers account security for a wide range of government agencies: candidates, elected officials, federal and state departments, and party committees in the US, including their staff. Facebook offers a full suite of tools to help agencies make the most of their presence on the platform. Facebook Protect. Interactivity.

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Celebrating Black History Month: Best practices for celebrating on social media and beyond

Sprout Social

And Gen Z is more multicultural than ever,” says Jayde Powell , content creator, marketing strategist and host of #CreatorTeaTalk. She’s also a committee member of Black@, a Sprout community resource group. In August, Topicals hosted the first fully BIPOC sponsored brand trip. She says doing this can help maintain authenticity.

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Email Marketing and Social Media: 2 Peas in a Pod

Justin Levy

On Wednesday, May 12th at 2:00p EST I’ll be hosting a webinar along with DJ Waldow of Blue Sky Factory to yap about new media strategy and how social media and email marketing can work together. Every time I chat with anyone from their team or hear them speak at our events or other conferences, I always learn something new.