Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. If you have a tools-focused strategy, you don’t really have a strategy. First, figure out how you’re going to be social, and then worry about how you’re going to do social.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Extremely handy while traveling, I also highly recommend Nutshell for casual social media users. iPhone Just about anyone that builds a social media audience partially does so because they create a lot of content, and are responsive. Mobile access to the social Web is a virtual requirement to do it well.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Apparently, once we were given the opportunity to completely screw up our own Web pages, we decided that maybe we were better off if social networks removed some of the sources of our own visual and layout demise. Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less. The tools of social media always change.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. That got me thinking that perhaps social media types aren’t fully recognizing Twitter’s limitations? Check ( Facebook Lite ). Retweet-style sharing tools? I love Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I feel that once we dive down into the polling and the methodology, we'll find that the definition of “friend&# for the purposes of these surveys will have contexts different enough to render the comparisons (and thus the “trend&# ) meaningless. In the land of the liars, the truth-teller is king. Im Jay Baer.

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APRIL 8, 2010

For now, I think it’s a highly mobile DVD player, game machine, Kindle, iPod, email appliance, and Web surfing device. But, iPad HD screen, color, and zoom make it better for magazines – and I can absolutely see education ( and mobile medicine) potential. What is it? I find Kindle to be easier and better as a book device.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Arm your manager with a mobile device and an email alert system: For the final question of the #socialmedia chat, we talked about tips for businesses looking to take advantage of Foursquare. So, they definitely got my attention with that and here I am writing about it. A few days ago I got a gift certificate for 10 bucks.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The ability to make or consume social media from an array of mobile devices increases the convenience factor (and the pressure on my wi-fi router) immensely. Not always in a good way, but the willingness of people to interact with you and connect with you in social media FAR exceeds their willingness to do the same things in real life.

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