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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

Twitter, which was founded in 2006, didn’t exist when I left. Posterous, Amplify and Quora had yet to be founded. To the Army, engagements often mean meeting with people in the community. If we engage the community, build trust, and demonstrate they have a vested interest in the outcome, we might tip the scale of favor.

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Making Google+ Worth Your Time

Janet Fouts

This morning I had a conversation with a friend about Google+ and it’s a conversation I used to have about Twitter. I used to say this to people about Twitter, and now I find people have exactly the same issue with Google+. Clearly he’s not circling the right people on Google+. So here’s how to do that for Google+.

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I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

Convince & Convert

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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How to Be a Good Guest Post Host

ProBlogger

You often see articles about how to be a good guest poster: things you can do to make an impression and get your post published. The process of submitting a guest post is one where the poster submits an idea or article, and then it goes into a kind of freeze until the host blog accepts it or rejects it. Respond when you say you will.

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Stop the Posturing About Government 2.0 and Do It Already

Social Media Strategery

I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. Archie Good luck with some people.

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5 Successful Social Media Campaigns To Inspire Your Next Marketing Drive

Keyhole.co

A social media campaign is a way for brands to promote themselves or their products/services on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and others. Community building: This involves creating a loyal community of followers and fans around the brand so that they become advocates for the brand and help spread the word.

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Social Pros 22 – Evan Hamilton, UserVoice

Convince & Convert

Eric : Yeah, so LinkedIn has provided company pages the same way that Facebook provides company pages and Twitter provides company pages and you do status updates which are akin to Tweets and instead of broadcasting the same thing to everyone, with LinkedIn you can actually target them based on job title, geography, company size, that type of thing.

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