Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

When I first started writing this post, I was going to call it “How I Use Twitter.” ” Then I thought again, because a) I’m not as frenetically active on Twitter these days as I used to be, and b) who the heck cares how I use Twitter? Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. Taking it a step further.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2014

via Flickr, CC 2.0. Today’s lesson is user-generated content 101 and five reasons why the future belongs to the users. User-generated content is far better at creating that community. Rise of the social photobooth and video jukebox. Their interaction is content of the highest order. Image: mayeesherr. (in

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Never before in the history of this blog (or, at least over the past 18 months) has a week transpired without new content. We use social networking sites for different reasons, but it is crucial to grasp the WHY. She owned her world. Those are powerful words. It is common to do things because other people do them.

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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

| Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence. MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter together dominate theweb. Follow him on Twitter. Or people who sky dive?

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Firebelly

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! But the one thing that we’ve both agreed on is the importance of publishing of our content, regardless of where it came from. Less filling!”

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Media You can see embedded media without leaving Twitter such as YouTube videos, Flickr pictures and live streaming from Ustream and more. Related content When you click on a tweet, you’ll get up the detail pane with focus on that individual tweet. It also provides you content that are related to the tweet you clicked.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But social networks? So when Google+ launched, I jumped in again but was, again, seriously unimpressed with the “me too” nature of trying to copy Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. Remember when Google + was going to kill Facebook and Twitter? Facebook and Twitter are not going away. Not yet Google!

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. Availability?

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Firebelly

JULY 9, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays Fun Online Finds | Main | Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site » July 09, 2010 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes Its Friday and todays fun finds are 5 Twitter quizzes that are sure to entertain you, enlighten you, and help you unwind after a busy work week.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. As the story goes, Twitter early adopter Chris Messina, proposed the hashtag for organizing tweets.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 23, 2012

Content marketing is about more than just blogging. While that’s the first thing that people think of — at least me, as a professional blogger — content is anything that can be read, watched, seen, or heard. I like this kind of content best, because it tells the entire story. Basically anything you can read.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The changes will most likely lead to people spending more time on Twitter's actual website - something that would appeal to potential advertisers. Two of the biggest changes on #New Twitter 1. Photos and videos will be able to be viewed directly on the Twitter timeline. Changes will be rolling out over the next few weeks.

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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Instagram was all the rage, and I've even heard from a number of sources that it is now one of the definitive social networks for the teen and tween demographic. It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. So what happened?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

There are several reasons why marketers may want to partially automate their social media campaigns. First, success with social media marketing comes with frequency (plus quality). Studies show that users on platforms like Twitter and Pinterest maximize their engagement when brands post as many as 15 tweets or 11 pins per day.

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Social Selling Masters

JUNE 19, 2016

When it comes to content, buyers tend to prefer visual content. Retail sites with video content tend to increase conversion by up to 46%. The bottomline is if you or your organization are not using visual content to drive sales, then you are missing out on a huge portion of potential sales. Why is this so? Infographics.

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SocMed Sean

JUNE 21, 2012

Not just from researching and writing articles, but form the comments/feedback that I have received and the conversations that have been sparked with others via social networks like Twitter. I was so focused on what other people thought about my blog that it is evident that my content wasn’t as good as it could have been.

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Social Media Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The marketing world seems ablaze with so-called "content marketing" ideas lately. Everywhere you turn, it's content-this, content-that. There are conferences that are specifically dedicated to content marketing. I've even been guilty of saying that content is the currency of social. Not so fast. Not so fast.

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Mindjumpers

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Since a lot of us who are users of social media/networks have multiple online profiles across the web, for example, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr etc., Like with About.me, all of your linked content is pulled into your page in order to be easy to access. About.me – Latest Addition to Social Profiling Pages.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 11, 2013

To expand your online footprint within your market, think about three types of sites where you want a presence: Social media sites: these include social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), social content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare) and social bookmarking sites (Reddit, StumbleUpon, Diigo).

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 1, 2012

You published 30 articles this year, but none of them have gone viral , you still only have 250 followers on Twitter (none of whom retweet you), and your Google page rank still sits at a 2. Photo courtesy of functoruser on Flickr via Creative Commons license. Have you written content that they would find interesting?

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study. 35% (173) of the Fortune 500 have active Twitter accounts (a post within the past thirty days); and nearly 50% of the top 100 companies (47) have a Twitter account. The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2011

Not only is backing up your information simple, and many times free…it will save you time when trying to locate information you’ve previously shared or better yet – let you restore your entire network if your information were to be lost. What would you do if your entire LinkedIn network suddenly disappeared?

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 39 pm Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Jump to Comments We recently did a study to understand how the businesses in India are using twitter. of tweets, tweet type, conversation type.

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Socialmedia.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2016

While we both know you’re not a purveyor of so-called fake-news, if you’re not a proper J-school-certified and verified reporter, you might end up on the wrong side of the social media content filter. Fake news has been in the real news recently. and ChrisAbraham.com , respectively. This has actually been a boon for sites like these.

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Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Oxfam has made the use of social media an integrated part of their digital strategy based on the opportunities they present in terms of: immediacy, talking with a number of voices, content and community. On Twitter , donations reached 4,000 pounds and the number of followers increased with 10% in the UK and 38% in the US.

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Socialmedia.biz

AUGUST 31, 2016

Flickr, 25031050@N06. We get our information from different news outlets, publications, live coverage and events happening on Twitter, Facebook feeds, and countless other sources. So it can be time consuming to try and find fresh, relevant content when scouring social networks for important information.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 13, 2010

Whenever I present or give classes on monetizing social networks and online communities people usually have two questions. Two, how can Twitter make money? Question two comes from Question one (in part) - if Twitter doesn’t find a way for us to show we value it, it will fold/go under/dead pool, and that would be a shame.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

“I’m on top of it, I know what this social networking thing is all about&# , “My child doesn’t really use it&# , “Does it really matter? But more importantly, aside from the breakdown of percentages in that graphic above-look at the number of ways that people can consume and create content.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Your Twitter Story: How did you start Tweeting, and how big of Twit have you become? Social media is here to stay. » October 09, 2009 Content Update: Stories connect Us David Hoppe on the value of content My friend David is a great human being.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

who has previously written a great analysis on the top 5 blogs and now is taking his evaluation to Twitter. Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. It is very clear that you can’t automate social media. It has an algorithm that favors your status.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities. Want to fail at social media? Social networking is not about sending messages to like-minded groups of people.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 26, 2010

Home About In the Media Indian Companies on Twitter – A Usage Study Search Engine Statistics:: Google’s share dips March 27, 2010.8:32 You are welcome to connect with me or send your pitches on my email id [toreachdaksh AT gmail DOT com] Twitter updates Wow very nice :) RT @ paavani Awesome compilation of reasons.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Moreover they could use the report to build content and engage in topics that were trending where Chevron was a thought leader or was looking to become more of a thought leader.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Social networks are great for business. It is understandable, then, why business owners are flocking to set up shop on social networks and sometimes forgoing the building their own websites in favor of a social network presence. Use Twitter to build your audience and use Facebook to talk to your audience.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

While many refer to this subject matter as social media optimization (SMO), I prefer social search optimization due to the specificity. The end game is simple, and nothing new under the sun: maximizing the visibility of relevant content for those looking for it.

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