Wed.Aug 24, 2011

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What’s Trending @Twitter? [infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet. The social micro-blogging platform, Twitter, has become very popular. With it’s more than 200 million user accounts, people are constantly tweeting and more and more people are getting on board to join the conversation. It seems as if Twitter users see the great value that lies in the social forum. Not only is it a great platform for these to connect with other users sitting across the world, but it’s also a useful community for brands to engage with their consumers.

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Social Media Specialists Are No Longer Needed

Direct Marketing Observations

If you’ve been in this business for any length of time, then its time to take your collective aggregate knowledge of social media and add it to the overall mix of what you know and do. We’re at least five years in and I want you to quit being a social media specialist, because you aren’t one any longer. Simply put, and I’ve written about this at various points in the past, we’re all becoming social media generalists.

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What is Your Social Media Marketing IQ?

Mindjumpers

Tweet Like to know – keep on reading! Last 2 days, I had the pleasure of doing a workshop together with Mike Lewis at the Bring Dialogue Conference held in Strømstad, Sweden. Mike is the VP Marketing, at the Boston based company Awareness Inc. one of the fastest growing tools to help companies organise, manage, engage and measure their social media activities.

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#measurePR with Marshall Sponder (Part II)

Waxing UnLyrical

Last week Marshall Sponder returned to the bi-weekly #measurePR Twitter chat. As I said when I wrote up his previous “appearance,&# this is someone who eats, lives, breathes measurement, and that always makes for a good guest. In addition, with his new book out, Marshall has a pretty busy schedule, so I really appreciated him making the time to chat with us.

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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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Three Internet Marketing Tools That Play Well Together

Small Business Mavericks

Successful Internet marketers know you can’t stick to one tactic online and hope to succeed. You’ve got to try different things. But when you find something that works, don’t stop there. Add it to other tactics that work. Today’s post is a highlight on three online marketing tactics that have been proven to work over and over again for most marketers who try them.

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Starbucks launches city vs. city coffee competition

Firebelly

In my world, it isn’t officially the fall season until I have a Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks in my hand. I know I’m not alone. Today, Starbucks launched a nation-wide competition on Facebook. Fanatics from city-to-city will compete to have the latte hand-crafted in their Starbucks locations one week before it is available to the masses.

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Getting closer

Josh S Peters

We’re getting closer to the final goodbye to Shuaism. The post 301 redirects are done as are the category and page redirects. All that’s left is to get the tag 301 redirects, the root domain redirect, the webmaster tools change of address completed, and to write a blog post detaileing how to move your blog from one domain to another and the move will be complete.

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Introducing Spotify, the Musical Paradise

Ari Herzog

Photo by doctor_bob. Wikipedia tells you that Aretha Franklin, Charlotte Church, Peggy Lee, Josh Groban, and the Jackson 5 are among the numerati who covered Bridge Over Troubled Water during their musical careers. It’s one thing to read their names, but what if you want to listen to each performer’s version in alphabetical order — without paying to own the songs?

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What Affects The Search Engines - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

In the online world, Search Engines are critical. Knowledge of Search Engines form an important part of Social Media professional's day to day activity. It is critical that you understand what a Search Engine is looking for and how best you can make use of the opportunity. While you do understand the important criteria of the Search Engine you need to keep in mind that the algorithms are updated and changed constantly.

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2012 – the year of 3D printing?

The Way of the Web

It seems like I’ve been talking to people about 3D printing for ages, but it seems like momentum is really gathering for it at the moment as it starts to reach a wider audience, and with the news Makerbot Industries has just secured $10 million of funding. Frustratingly, and out of character for me, I can’t find a blog post noting when I initially heard about it, although it must have been around 2009, as that was when the initial press reports started appearing, and I do remember be

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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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What the UK government could learn about using social media in times of crisis

Danny WhatMough

Tweet. As I’ve argued twice already in the last few weeks, the UK government attacks on the role social media played in the recent riots is scandalous. In my mind, the government would do well to focus its attention on looking into the very real and serious problems that caused the riots and, if it does want to look more into social media, should focus on ways the emergency services could use networks like Twitter and Facebook to better inform citizens.

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Is Boston the worst city in America?

Jeff Esposito

This is a guest post from Anne Weiskopf. Within a two week span this summer, Boston was honored by GQ Magazine as being first in “ The 40 Worst-Dressed Cities in America &# and by two Michigan psychiatrists as “ The Least Friendly City &# in the country. So, what’s up Boston? And, is it causal? Let me start by saying that having excellent sports teams is one of the greatest things about Boston.

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Three arguments to oppose government social media interference

Danny WhatMough

Tweet. Earlier this week I recorded a video podcast for PR Week looking at the PR impact of the government’s meeting this Thursday with Facebook, Blackberry and Twitter about the role these networks played in the riots. Stay tuned for the video, out tomorrow! As I’ve alluded to before , the government’s attempt to place any sort of blame for the riots on ‘social media’ is absurd and these, in my opinion, are the main reasons why: The freedom of speech argument ̵

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How Tim Ferriss Busted the Biggest Myth About Blog Success

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Amy Porterfield of AmyPorterfield.com. When it came to building my business with social media, I lived by the motto, “More is better.&# I applied every social media strategy I learned, stacking plan after plan and idea after idea. Then I read Tim Ferriss’ new book. And everything changed. With Tim’s 4-Hour Body , I realized I was a sucker to yet another myth in my head just like I was when I was little and my mom used to tell me I couldn’t swim for an hour after I ate

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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.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise

ProBlogger

“A brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.&# —Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder. This quote gets pulled out a lot by bloggers (I’ve used it three times in the last week myself) but I wonder if it might be time to give it a little more intentional pondering as we think about the brands we are trying to build around our blogs.

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Forget About SEO and Do This Instead for Traffic: Much More Effective and Quick Results

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post from Sunil Sajnani. I generate most of my revenues online through niche websites that I research, set up, optimize, market and leave on auto pilot. For me, free organic search engine traffic is invaluable and is the lifeblood of the passive and residual income streams I have established online over the years. As good as it works for me, search engine optimization (SEO) is not the be all end all for everyone.

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If you’re in or near Nottingham tonight or Birmingham tomorrow…

The Way of the Web

You really, really should try and make it along to see the President and Founder of the Free Software Foundation , Richard Stallman speaking. He’s also in Edinburgh on August 26th and 28th. You can see more details via Stallman’s schedule on the FSF website. And if you’re not aware of who he is, just skim through the Wikipedia entry for starters.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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One Step Forward And Fifty Steps Back For Bloggers (And Society)

Twist Image

What year is this? Instead of treating Bloggers as if they're not capable of reporting the news or having journalistic integrity, why not just elevate the journalists that we deem as "worthy" to a more professional status? This way, we can both control the media and - at the same time - let organizations decide who they should give more media access to based on an ID card.

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