Thu.May 12, 2011

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Are You a Social Media BarfShiner?

Waxing UnLyrical

Today’s post has been a few months in the making, and a lot of people contributed to it. Now, you’re probably wondering what a “barfshiner&# is. You won’t find a definition in any dictionary, as far as I can tell, but the word came about thanks to Jill Foster and Erica Holt who, despite never having met each other (to the best of my knowledge), came together via the comment thread on a recent question I asked via Facebook and Twitter: “ Do you secretly want to puke

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You Can Now Tag a Brand or Page in Facebook

Mindjumpers

Tweet Facebook has added a new, absolutely cool feature last night, which allow users to tag pages and brands in their Facebook photos as well as in updates. This is already know from the tagging of personal profiles. However, the new feature gives an additional “wow&# factor to the brands plus free advertising. It is a great opportunity for brands to gain more exposure on Facebook and to connect products and brands to real-life situations through the people who tag them.

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Why Foursquare’s Content Opportunities Are Awesome

Firebelly

No question that Foursquare’s continued usage growth makes it the most talked about location-based services for brands. It’s Foursquare’s customer focus that makes it truly appealing – customer focus from the standpoint that (a) you can focus on giving customers incentives, and (b) your customers can focus on you through their tips.

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How Human Should Brands Become in Social Media?

Mindjumpers

Tweet Since many people have been talking about how brands should be humanized in this era of social media, I have come to think a bit further on the subject. We want our brands to be more human because brands are made of human beings. And that also makes perfect sense! But how transparent should a brand actually be(come)? Do we need to be open about everything going on in our world, or where should we set the limit?

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Are SEO And Link Building The Same Thing?

Small Business Mavericks

There seems to be two major philosophies with regard to link building in the SEO realm. You have SEOs who believe that link building is the most important SEO activity. Then you have SEOs who believe that content development is more important. Of the latter type, there are SEOs who place varying degrees of importance on links. So who’s right? I’m on the side of the content development SEOs.

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Harness The Power Through Likeable Social Media

Saying It Social

Join me, AK Stout and Deb Evans tonight on Social Geek Radio with special guest Dave Kerpen, co-founder and CEO of Likeable Media , an award-winning social media and word-of-mouth marketing firm. Dave has been featured on CNBC’s “On the Money&# , ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Early Show, the New York Times, and countless blogs. Likeable’s mission is to help build more transparent, responsive, & likeable companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Cat Yoga

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Writing. Share your best post ever – currently has a collection over 30 posts that have gone viral and what the blog owner did to get it there.

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Give Energy to Your Blog Post Titles

Idaconcpts

Good bloggers write all of their post titles with high energy rates because they want their readers to engage with their content. If you don’t craft a title with a positive, friendly and authoritative attitude, your article will appear bland (a.k.a boring) to potential readers. Here are some good tips to give energy to your blog post titles. Relate to Your Readers.

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Evolving on Facebook From Then to Now

Ari Herzog

Reviewing my Facebook history from Day One (which you can learn how to download yourself ), I’ll guess I joined the social networking site in the spring of 2005 shortly after I gained an.edu email address in graduate school. The site was devoid of the many features evident today, but I do recall more customizations available than on MySpace which used to be the place to be.

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SortPrice Unveils Store Application 2.0 Built on Facebook Platform

Bill Hartzer

Already an established and trusted leader in helping retailers effectively expand their reach to Facebook Platform, comparison search engine SortPrice.com has rolled out an updated version of its Store Application for Facebook that adds even more features to a tool that is already used by more than 1,500 merchants nationwide. SortPrice was one of the first companies to offer e-commerce solutions on Facebook.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Moving People Creates Movements

Twist Image

What is art? It's a question that has been asked for as long as humans have done acts of creativity - from painting on cave walls to the architecture that surrounds us. Music is art and so to is the work that many of us do. While trying to find a true definition for "art" may be more difficult and challenging than one might suspect, I tend to define art as something that moves you.

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13 Reasons Why Jason Shouldn’t be in Email Marketing

Social Email Marketing

It’s Friday the 13th! So, I thought we could have a little fun and share 13 reasons why Jason from the Friday the 13th movies, shouldn’t be an email marketer. Who knows, someone might even pick up some pointers from him…about email marketing that is. Just in case you don’t.

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Leverage the Long Tail of Search on Your Blog

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Not getting all the search traffic you would like to get to your blog? One way to improve your results is to tap into long tail search terms to use in your posts. This is not always that easy to do, so today I will explore some ideas of ways to tap into that data. One reason why this is such an attractive thing to do is that the long tail actually has more traffic in it than the major “head&# terms which are the first thing we all

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.