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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs. link] staciesgifts My sentiments are with John on this matter. Gravity Garden [link]. Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. If barber shops were still driving consumer sentiment, I’d be writing this post about barber shop marketing. Social media is hard False. Social media is hard False. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2008

It’s clear that anti-Digg sentiment is silenced, and is often suppressed. If you also ask me, Digg has had a lot of vocal supporters and those voices are going to be preaching about other social networks now. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. In particular, sales and leads (as opposed to chatter, sentiment, buzz, purchase intent, etc.). Sore spot with us PR types.)

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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JUNE 11, 2010

[link] jaybaer It's actually a match made in a bar, but I appreciate the sentiment. link] jaybaer It's actually a match made in a bar, but I appreciate the sentiment. Your perspective would be hugely valuable. [link] jaybaer It's actually a match made in a bar, but I appreciate the sentiment. Im Jay Baer.

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JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. To participate in the conversation, marketers will need to be able to have and provide greater access to decision makers – speed of response is crucial.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

link] Angela Connor I don't know that these are necessarily the wrong questions, if they provoke additional conversations and they ultimately move to bigger ideas and begin to think more broadly about integration. I mirror your sentiments. Its great to see this conversation so relevant active! Thanks for the kind words.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

so if last decade consumers trusted google organic results and arguably ppc positions, then this decade they will place greater value on their increasing reliance of social recommendation via their social circles. power to the people ? power to the people ? Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Sentiment: How much are you willing to automate verse check by hand? Have you looked at any tools that allow local users to speak on behalf of the businesses social media channels but then give an overview to the home office to watch all activities? What conversations can you join? link] Michael Good post, thank your for this.

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JULY 29, 2010

I explicitly had this conversation with this guy this morning… and I got the sense that he was overly generous. Yet the sentiment is true — writing, especially long form, is hard work, and the work doesn’t end when the words are completed. It usually ends the conversation right there.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

I have actually heard this exact sentiment from several companies and agencies recently, wondering whether they should increase their Facebook efforts because the size of the member community is just so overwhelming. Even here in your comments section, I’m logged in with an OpenID connection into your Disqus comments.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

I have actually heard this exact sentiment from several companies and agencies recently, wondering whether they should increase their Facebook efforts because the size of the member community is just so overwhelming. Even here in your comments section, I’m logged in with an OpenID connection into your Disqus comments.

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MARCH 16, 2010

I think twitter is more of a heavily curated rss reader/feeder rather than a portal, and I suspect that presenting twitter to new users as more of a friendly way to use rss that as a way to push conversation with strangers would help quite a bit. I'm not even going to try. Thanks for the thought-provoking post! dell is one example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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JULY 7, 2010

Essentially, the actual user’s Twitter account became a broadcast medium but not a conversational one. But with social media, it’s about listening to what customers have to say and what people are truly interested in and concerned about. Sentiment is really hard to analyze. Look at me! I’m in my bubble!&#

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Smart phone-toting attendees could snap a photo of each others’ code, and instantly follow one another within the my.SXSW social network. We need to start getting specific about social media services and capabilities, and talk about the components of social media, not “social media&# as a whole.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Create Demand, Not Messages Success with “social” marketing is becoming less about creating desire, positive sentiment or aspiration among customers. Awareness, recall, positive sentiment, “engagement&# and buzz aren’t enough to overcome this mercenary reality. It’s more about demand creation. Im Jay Baer.

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