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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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Content, Content, Video: Creating content will continue to be a considerable aspect of a social media program. We’ll see more and more video as the content type of choice. The challenge for most businesses will be creating video content that creates conversation and isn’t just a commercial.

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What should business be doing with the new conversation websites?

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As if Twitter and Facebook don’t have businesses and users scrambling to keep up, a new type of site is cropping up that engages audiences through Question and Answer format.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

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There are so many layers to this topic that entire (worthy) books have been written on social media philosophy, content creation or audience engagement. Each element has its own chapter: F ocus, L anguage and Content, I ncentives & Motivations & Outreach, R ules Guidelines & Rituals, T ools.

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5 Often Untapped Strategies of Early Adopter Marketing

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Puzzles and quizzes are intriguing to these people, but they get bored easily, so make sure the content matches the intelligence level. It’s also easy to identify these people based on where they go because events like TED and TEDX inherently draw early adopter personality types.

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A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach

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Before going to step 4, ask yourself “what type information did I most like seeing from people?&# The idea holds water, or soda or a Belvedere vodka if your like me. The idea holds water, or soda or a Belvedere vodka if your like me. Do this for a week. 4) Now, with these accounts, continue to use them as your personal testing ground.

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Building Content That Attracts Customers and Clients

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When your building content, you’ve got to remember not to be blinded by the demographics. What to Consider When Building Content. The same is true of content. If you’re building content you should build it to attract the kind of people you want to do business with. Guess what? Dress for the customer you want.

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Tool Tuesday: Qwitter

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I typically recommend that my clients track this list on a daily basis and compare it to their content conversations. What I wish could be improved: Export List : I wish the lists of “unfollows&# could be exported to a spreadsheet that showed the day and time of the unfollow. That would be worth paying for!

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