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12 CEOs You Should Be Following on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

And for another, the business community seems to like it too. Her Twitter presence is packed full of personal thoughts and political views, along with stories about the challenges and successes she experienced as a non-profit CEO. Only 12% disagree. Kimberly Bryant. Profiles: LinkedIn. This pic is what I mean. Danielle Morrill.

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Social Media During Emergencies

Akamai Marketing

I couldn’t help but reflect on the fact that the tsunami sirens didn’t tell me as much as Twitter did. Is Twitter today’s warning siren? I was reliant exclusively on Twitter (mostly), Facebook and my car radio to get updates for the tsunami. Bing’s Twitter maps app is a great visual aid for this.

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What is hashtagging and how to use it effectively

Sprout Social

According to 72% of our LinkedIn community , hashtagging impacts the overall performance of social media content. The first hashtag debuted on Twitter in 2007 from a product designer named Chris Messina. “I The term was first used in 1971 when telecommunications companies introduced the # symbol to the touch-tone dialing keypad.

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! Serious disconnect there.). Anyway, on to the list!

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6 Social Media Stats to Improve Your Brand Presence

Mindjumpers

The sectors with the best response rates being telecommunications and the airline sector. 2) The average user spends 20 minutes per visit on Facebook: Another of the six interesting stats is that the average user spends 20 minutes per visit on Facebook, which is higher than on both Twitter (13 minutes) and LinkedIn (8 minutes).

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#1: Mistakes Companies Make on Twitter TIMELINES VELOCITY

Laurel Papworth

on mistakes companies make when using Twitter for business. Entering online communities is easy (mostly) but working effectively is hard. Optus, one of Australia’s main telecommunications carriers, have made a classic social media error: Social Media Timelines. None of them had much of a twitter audience before starting.

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B2B Testimonials: Seven Things to Do When Clients Won’t (or Can’t) Talk

Webbiquity SMM

Blind case studies: write those case studies, just use generic descriptors (e.g., “a large telecommunications firm”) in place of the actual client name (e.g., Build a thriving social network: encourage your clients to follow you on Twitter, like you on Facebook, and connect on LinkedIn. Here are seven possible tactics.

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