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JULY 20, 2010

Some of my favs include: Books – Content Strategy for the Web (Halvorson), Letting Go of the Words (Redish) Networks – The Content Strategy LinkedIn group Blogs – Here's a great list from Catherine Ventura (@catherinventura): [link]. Joining the LinkedIn group now. I actually work at Vertical Measures!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). On a near-continuous basis, consumers are asking for help making purchasing decisions. How can you take friction out of that process by just-in-time tweeting, participating in Yahoo! Im Jay Baer.

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APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? So, I peeked at YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too. Whether you’re spending millions per year on marketing, or less than $50,000, your proclivity toward being active on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube is strikingly similar.

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MARCH 22, 2010

I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media. When you routinely see single Webinars being priced at $100 or more, to include 24 of them for $297 is a flat-out steal. (if 297 gets you 24 killer social media Webinars.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

All blog owners should do this to see what their community prefers. Every community is different and will respond to different triggers. Are we, as an online community seeking that free advice to use for ourselves to better our own business and profit. I’ve been having some challenges with Disqus lately.

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JULY 14, 2010

There is no question social media does an organization good, just persevere and know there is a vibrant community there to support your work. Now, Google creates perceptions and it is our job to engage the communities and instill what perceptions we want seen. The change has come from how people create their perceptions. Im Jay Baer.

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MAY 11, 2010

Your LInkedin page. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Post it to your Facebook page. Your blog, naturally. Put it on YouTube of course. Even better, use TubeMogul to syndicate it to dozens of other video sites.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

If you wanted to create a system that replicated as best as possible the physical act of two people speaking to one another in the same place at the same time, would you build Twitter, or a WordPress comment system, or Facebook, or Linkedin? I’ve seen some linkedin groups with great discussions. Absolutely not.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think ultimately Linkedin may be in a good position here. then i never hear about it again blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Smart, as long as you don't get a backlash or sell out. Mossimo had that rolling until they showed up in Target. Im Jay Baer.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

How To Run A Successful Webinar Business From Your Blog with Lewis Howes of LewisHowes.com and Magnetic Webinars. If you deliver content and you are interesting, you will get leads and sales, even if you suck at actual webinars. Building your blogging empire with webinars: People do weibnars because they work.

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JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum).

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MAY 20, 2010

However, my preference is for the baby naming approach – selecting key performance indicators (KPI) before a single Tweet is sent, blog post is written, or Linkedin group is christened. Unfortunately, its going to be a long struggle to evolve from the quarterly-based thinking to one of growing a fan base, following, community, etc.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The drawback is that they are only tracking Twitter and Facebook for now, so if you need to monitor blogs, blog comments, discussion forums, Linkedin or anything else on behalf of your company or clients, you’ll need to gather that data elsewhere. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings.

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MAY 19, 2010

I've been posting questions to LinkedIn Answers like crazy, curating the answers I receive, and then informing those that provided the best answers that they've been included in a recent post on our blog (they agree to this first; there is a disclaimer in the question). — [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Great post. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

In fact, I’ll be giving away some freebies at a webinar in the near future. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle. I accept every friendship on LinkedIn (though I’m starting to feel that I shouldn’t!), You usually do.

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APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. The Better You Are at Twitter, The Worse You Are at Twitter Being a new user on Twitter is as lonely as Michael Boublé at a Green Day concert. What’s Happening?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

A regularly updated Fan Page brings greater awareness Community Page : What if you love something but you have no direct affiliation with the product/service, can’t find the official page, and worse, discover the page doesn’t even exist? Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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MARCH 2, 2010

The social media community is starving for a viable way to track customer behavior throughout all social outposts (as evidenced by the massive number of retweets for this post I mentioned recently about a new way to tie Google Analytics to your Facebook fan page ). Im Jay Baer.

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APRIL 7, 2010

On the other hand, the new Linkedin app completely nuked my BB – had to reinstall o/s this morning…grrr! Seems like it would be very easy to only show you tips/check-ins from your Foursquare connections as a default (or maybe even friends of friends like Linkedin) while still giving you the option to “view all&#.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Whether it’s brand reputation management, PR and influencer outreach, customer service and social CRM, interacting with fans on a brand community, or just creating content that builds thought leadership – it all takes time. Succeeding on the social Web requires daily participation. But, there's a lot of stuff at work here!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The feeling of community, and “we’re all in this together&# is slipping away. Most of them looked like I was bothering them, not one scanned my badge for contact info and only one asked for a business card and connected with me on LinkedIn (it was St. Edwards University for their MBA program). Im Jay Baer.

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