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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Not every company needs a blog. YouTube worked for BlendTec, but it might not work for your company. Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. And yet, there’s something to this.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered! 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. make your own Wink Widget!

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Dear IT Guy, Can You Actually Use the Tool You're Creating.

Social Media Strategery

Unfortunately, IT departments at large companies and government agencies are too often doing the equivalent of developing Android apps at work and using the iPhone at home. For you developers, what’s preventing you from getting this involved in the communities/platforms that you’re responsible for creating?

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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