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APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

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JULY 5, 2010

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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APRIL 20, 2010

The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization. But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think.

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MAY 10, 2011

The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. Through a blog, marketers become publishers, providing their audience with relevant and valuable content. Publishing has historically relied on advertising, or sponsorships, to pay for content production. Exhibiting at an upcoming trade show?

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AUGUST 2, 2010

I’ll be talking about brand community strategy and how to activate your audience. Danny Brown) Tagged as: brand communities , facebook , facebook strategy , facebook success summit , Speaking Engagements Did you enjoy this blog post? How can I help you?

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MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Your LInkedin page.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

More from Convince and Convert Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Convince and Convert Recommends From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts.

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MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. It’s on JaneNation. Is this the future of agencies?

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JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. But remember, every successful content creator starts the same way – with no audience, and a blinking cursor.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media. But, it's not all conversational.

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JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. It also continues to be a reliable conduit for new visitors here at Convince & Convert.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

“ Your Content Stinks! Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc., “ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here. How can I help you?

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AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. The story collection form doesn’t require a manifesto, video clip, haiku or any other content hijinks. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog.

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MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox?

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JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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JUNE 11, 2010

Amber is Director of Community for Radian6 , co-proprietor of the influential Brass Tack Thinking blog (formerly Altitude Branding), a cool mom, a motivating force, and a hell of a flautist). DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow As I wrote on Brass Tack Thinking, I have the chills. is my vote.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. All the content shown in each email is clickable. Subscribers then receive a digest of all the content posted to the fan page.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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MAY 4, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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JULY 26, 2010

The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Though I somewhat disagree with the premise that “social media makes everything about marketing&#. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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MAY 13, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). but a right-hand location on content sites. I also think the header should contrast the content area, and I think #1 does that best (option 3 is too much orange, but could be toned down). link] Adam Q.

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JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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MARCH 10, 2010

A must read w/ fantastic insight [link] topsy_top20k_en Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook: I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chroni… [link] joncombridges This looks great! I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content. Will tweet and FB now.

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JUNE 24, 2010

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace Driving Sales with Relevancy and Utility [link] Innovate AZ 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. It all comes down to content (and creatives). link] Chris Baldwin Jay, Have you not been sleeping lately?

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MAY 25, 2010

link] #bgsd [link] Forge Communications You want killer content on digital? link] #bgsd [link] Doug Braun Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your Agency Services: [link] (by Jay Baer) [link] Laura Scholz RT @sixstringsnc: Want killer content on digital? If you missed it, read the recap.

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MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(. Need to … noodle on it a bit.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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JUNE 7, 2010

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JULY 6, 2010

Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc. Rally third-party endorsers to help share your stories.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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