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How Much Listening Does Social Media Listening Really Offer?

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Social media listening. Social media monitoring. Social media tracking. Social media intelligence. There are many descriptions of how we can use social media as a listening tool , to complement (or replace) our more interactive approach where we converse too.

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

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The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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5 Ways Social Media is Used to Mislead or Misinform

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I have a confession to make: I’m not 100% in love with social media. Don’t get me wrong, social media. Using social media to lie is unfortunately easy. I have heard a lot of talk about Twitter’s use as a conversation tool. Quit using social media? Oh, and we’re not breaking up.

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]

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If you’re a clever cookie, you already have figured out the rest of the story at this point: Social media philosopher ponders how to push his message into the future. Social media philosopher realizes he does this all the time with business. See, you won’t actually be part of the conversation at this point.

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. Completely. Here’s the interview.

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers.

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Talking The Social Media Walk

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All the comments were thoughtful, but there were a few that made me think a lot more about this whole “social media&# thing. But truth be told, after a while, this ‘social media’ stuff has made me consciously LESS social both in person and online, and I have my reasons. Interesting.