Social Media Strategery

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy. billion industry.

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Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers AND Google Happy

Social Media Strategery

Scott Smith , Nick Papagiannis and I had the opportunity to kick off Social Media Week Chicago with a presentation titled “Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers, AND Google Happy ” to a packed house at Morningstar in Chicago. But remember when content marketing consisted of publishing a blog post a week?

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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This is a cheap and relatively simple way to allow your users to choose how they wish to consume the content on your site. You don’t have to change what content you put on your Intranet – just place a “Comment on this article&# button at the bottom of your Intranet content. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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More Than a Stepping Stone – the Mid-Size City Becomes a PR Career Destination

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Thanks to the seemingly endless demand for new content, hometown pride is stronger than ever before. Despite their love for the ‘Burgh, many young PR and marketing pros unfortunately still look at the city as a second-tier stepping stone. This post originally appeared on the PRSA Pittsburgh blog.

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Keeping Gov 2.0 Fresh

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I do Web, marketing and social media consulting ( [link] ), but put a lot of effort into GovFresh. Also, I can appreciate the financial challenges of original content media. From a content perspective, the biggest challenge is living so far from Washington, DC, where much of the open gov & Gov 2.0 How do you fit it all in?

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Create Content for Humans, Not Machines

Social Media Strategery

Let me preface this post by saying that I’m the current Director of PR and Content Integration at an agency. I’m telling you this so that I can tell you this – I really hate content marketing. Well, let me rephrase – I hate what marketers have done to content marketing. search it out. CC BY-SA 3.0, [link].

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My Social Media Resolutions for 2009

Social Media Strategery

Having done this work (online communities, collaboration, user-created content, etc.) Having done this work (online communities, collaboration, user-created content, etc.) link] Andrew Krzmarzick Steve – I would second this book recommendation – read last year and passed it on to our head of Marketing and Communications.

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