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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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Social media was going to change the world, and I wanted to be at the tip of the spear. I joined a rapidly growing cadre of change agents using social media to radically transform everything from fixing potholes and broken stoplights to managing city budgets. . No one talked about socialcontent.”

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

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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.

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Social Media Integration in Higher Education | Social Media Strategery

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana.

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Set Your New Social Media Manager Up For Success

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Then why do organizations continue to hire social media specialists, managers, and coordinators, but then handcuff them with outdated policies, processes, and technology? Before going out and hiring that person to handle your social media, take some time to set them up for success. Brush up on social media yourself.

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Identify the Right People to Manage Your Social Media Initiatives

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I'm re-posting it with a few minor modifications because I'm giving a presentation based on this content next Tuesday at 10:15am EST at PRSA's Digital Impact Conference. Who leads your organization's social media initiatives? Remember, social media is driven by the person, not the position.

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The Social Media Resolutions I Want You to Make

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Ugh – the phrase 2011 social media resolution s returns more than 12 million search results on Google and I find most of them totally insufferable. For most people, the social media resolutions post has become blog filler that doesn’t really offer any value, to the author or to the reader. I will blog less.

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Why Social Media is Scary | Social Media Strategery

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 From our most senior VPs to senior executives within the government to our summer interns, every group has their own set of questions, concerns, and pre-conceived notions about social media and what it means for them.