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To Thine Own Self Be True

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I was flipping through an in-flight magazine yesterday and noticed a two-page spread for a diaper company. This brand's Facebook page isn't doing much to leverage the power of the social graph or use Facebook's functionality to extend the brand narrative in a unique way. MySpace did. online social network.

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Is Facebook All Wrong About Our Sharing Psychology

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Note: Here at Convince & Convert , we published a very interesting case study of a cosmetics company release their new collection in tiny burst via SnapChat. And SnapChat isn’t alone in their search for greater truth in our social communication. Fascinating approach.).

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

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MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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Can Greater Social Connections Improve Higher Education?

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the Schools App allows you to create a private, branded social network for your students within Facebook that will engage them in ways that Pages and Groups can’t. note: Neither my company or I have any financial interest in Inigral or the Schools App - I am writing this solely from the perspective of an SMCEDU Advisory Board member].

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Integrating Email and Social Media with Flowtown | Email Marketing.

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. “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. “We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

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Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? Should companies treat customers differently?