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What the heck are social media consultants and what do they do all day?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social media consultants are not masters of the dark arts. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. Companies often call a consultant in because social media is not working. A lot of people think of social media as marketing, and it’s an important part.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

Waxing UnLyrical

I think Livefyre, the comment system that has been implemented on WUL for just under two months , is da bomb. I’m not one to get overly excited by blog comment systems, but this one has me blown away. in my opinion, than other comment systems that allow you to post your comments to, say, Facebook or Twitter?

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How to Cut Costs with Your Own Support Community

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The social web has opened the communication floodgates. Can’t a strong social media initiative start inside the walls of your website? If you want a scalable solution with plenty of feature options, Drupal is a great open source solution that requires some custom programming.

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Tech Tip: 3 Simple Things You Can Do To Improve The Backend Of Your Site

SocMed Sean

This sure opens up a lot of possibilities, from redirecting an old URL to a new address, to helping clean up the complex or nonsensical URL that is coming from an abysmal publishing system – providing you with a URL that is not only user-friendly but also search engine-friendly. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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Tips For Creating An Awesome Website

The Realtime Report

It’s also not as simple as being able to say WordPress or Drupal, etc. is the best website content management system to use because it all comes down to how you will be using your website. WordPress is the most popular website in the world, in part due to its easy to use content management system and built in blogging facility.

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Rewarding badges and points systems on your intranet – social scorecards – could be the turning point for turning your enterprise 2.0 systems from a thing of work to a thing of play. Foursquare becomes Social Work and all the better for it. note: today most community software has a spam removal system).

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Learning via the Social Media Game

Bare Feet Studios

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. Social Network.