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Social Media Success is About The Customers, Stupid

Adam Cohen

With each passing conference and industry event, the perennial mainstays of social media case studies tend to remain the same: Dell, Comcast, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks. Often times this is because they think of success as whether their story gets placed in AdAge or is mentioned by a pundit at a conference. Most Commented.

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On Research, Measurement’s Oft-Forgotten Sibling

Waxing UnLyrical

But the last scheduled chat was on a day when a lot of folk were heading back from this year’s SxSW conference (or festival, or whatever you want to call it) and it didn’t seem to make sense to hold it when many of them couldn’t participate. Image: Mike Kline via Flickr, CC 2.0. By now, you’d think they would.

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50 Ways Marketers use Social Media to Improve Their Marketing

Harp Interactive

Build sentiment measurements, and listen to the larger web for how people are talking about your customer. Experiment with Flickr and/or YouTube groups to build media for specific events. Marvel Comics raised my impression of this with their Hulk statue Flickr group). Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality.

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Blogging for Grasshoppers: The Most Numerous Steps To Do The.

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: jim crossley via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 An article published on Edutopia titled Lead, Don’t Lecture , outlines teachers’ insights that are in line with these sentiments. Image: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0 Sorry, I won’t be telling you in this post.

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Customize Your Blog's Error Page in 5 Easy Steps

Waxing UnLyrical

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! Bland Image: jason carlin via Flickr , Creative Commons I mean, chicken-soup-with-no-celery-or-pepper bland. Mark as read Approve comment Let me echo Marys sentiments. Don’t you want the back story first? Possibly, never to return. Double yikes.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Clive Thompson in Wired.com captures the sentiment perfectly: Consider: If I suddenly decide I want to dial you up, I have no way of knowing whether you’re busy, and you have no idea why I’m calling… Plus, voice calls are emotionally high-bandwidth, which is why it’s so weirdly exhausting to be interrupted by one.

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Yes We Can

Bare Feet Studios

I work with several Expat Americans and the sentiment is the same. You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog. What a wonderful conference! She moved here in 1971 as a protest to the Vietnam War. So you went to #HISMS yesterday too.