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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. Fast-forward a few years, and we’re seeing more and more organizations hire entire teams to create content for Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and whatever hot new social media startup launched last week.

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Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have

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“ and jump on the bandwagon of whatever trend they can find (side note: the Condescending Corporate Brand Facebook page is one of my new guilty pleasures). If you give me something (coupons, discounts), I’ll put up with your annoying habits (spamming my social media feeds). It’s about transactions.

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

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[link] Water ionizer Hi, Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section! Thanking you much Martin [link] Water ionizer Hi, Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section! I was searching for this since past 3 months and i am glad to see it here. keep it up. keep it up.

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An Awesome Interview with the Founder of GovLoop, Steve Ressler.

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Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions. The short answer was that the community was unsustainable. Within the Gov 2.0

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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Heroes series to videos, books, and a whole host of RSS feeds, Luke has created a platform that offers value to anyone involved in Gov 2.0, community from 3,000 miles away? Even though we’re not a social network, I get lot of feedback on the sense of community it brings to the open gov, Gov 2.0 You can get involved.

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Top Ten Quotes From BlogWorld 2008…thus far! | Social Media Strategery

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Here are the top ten things that I’ve overheard and/or saw in the Conference Twitter feed. I don’t have the time today to fully read your entire site but I have bookmarked it and also signed up for your RSS feed. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 I’ll back around in a day or two.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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I walked them through how to use both RSS feeds and del.icio.us , and showed them how they could use simply tag their relevant media coverage using whatever tags and descriptions made sense to them. They could then create an RSS feed for those tags that is placed onto their internal Intranet site. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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