Fri.Dec 13, 2013

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12/13/2013: Social Media Snapshot

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Social Media Marketing Tags: Facebook news , Facebook video auto-play , Google+ Ads , Post+ , redesigned Like button , social media news Social Media Snapshot Catch up on the need-to-know changes and updates in social media that affect your business and brand…all in one place. Below are highlights of changes on top social media platforms for the week ending December 13th , 2013: New on Facebook: Auto-Play Videos Being Rolled Out On Facebook’s IOS, Android Apps [.] ( Rea

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The True Story Of The Ugly Christmas Sweater Guy

Jason Yormark

'For the past 6 years, every time the holidays rolls around, a new tradition has come upon me; an outpouring of emails and Facebook messages asking me if I know that my picture comes up on Google for ugly Christmas sweater. Or that my picture was used on a flyer for an Ugly Christmas Sweater party. Or recently, that my picture is on the cover of an Ugly Christmas Sweater book.

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Social Networking Stats: Amazon Is Top Retailer on Pinterest, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

'The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1.15 billion monthly active users. via Facebook. YouTube. over 1 billion monthly unique users. via YouTube. Twitter: over 218 million monthly active users. via Twitter. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 500 million users. via The Next Web.

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How Gary Vaynerchuk Uses Micro-Content to Drive Social Media Results

Convince & Convert

'Gary Vaynerchuk, author @garyvee. Gary Vaynerchuk – entrepreneur, CEO of VaynerMedia , and author – joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss his brand new book Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy, Social World ; how to deal with haters; and making sure to read the room. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast.

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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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How Bing Is Improving Search

Small Business Mavericks

'We haven’t heard from Bing in a while, every now and then we’ll get a glimpse into how they are improving search. With Google becoming more restrictive with link building practices and tightening the reigns on content quality, Bing has a golden opportunity to step forward and gain some share of the search market. I don’t know if any of these innovations will do that for them, but they have potential.

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Suffering From “100 Tabs Open in Browser” Syndrome? Pocket to the Rescue!

Absolute PA

'We’ve all been there – that moment when you find a fab article, your new favorite website or a must-see video (bonus points if it’s the latest cat video going viral) but at that precise moment you haven’t got the time to explore it. You know it’s something useful or entertaining and while you don’t have the time to spare now, you’ll want to refer to it later.

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You Don't Know Jack (Dorsey). But You Should.

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'There are very few people that are truly prodigies and innovators. Writer''s toss those words around as a way to substantiate and impress readers with a subject matter. It''s par for the course, but more often than not they are just words and not true definitions of the people being featured. One of the few people who is deserving of those titles is Jack Dorsey.

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Facebook Registers 21 Instagram Direct Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

'In an offensive move, Facebook has registered twenty one new domain names in conjunction with their launch of Instagram Direct. The Instagram Direct service is a new way to send photo and video messages to friends. It allows you to send photos or videos directly to a group of people (followers) or only certain people. Typically, when companies announce new products or services, the company will register related domain names at about the same time (or on the same day) as their announcement.

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Holiday Cheer! Win 3 New Business Books In A Snap (Including The Latest From Gary Vaynerchuk)!

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'Want to win 3 free business books? In celebration of Gary Vaynerchuk ''s latest business book, Jab Jab Jab Right Hook , I''ve decided to give away five gift packs that include: Jab Jab Jab Right Hook - how to tell your story in a noisy, social world by Gary Vaynerchuk. CTRL ALT Delete - Reboot Your Business. Reboot Your Life. Your Future Depends On It by Mitch Joel (that''s me!

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$100 Cup Of Coffee? Restaurant Cerulean Brings It

Firebelly

'Restaurant Cerulean Brings Rare Yemen Coffee To Benefit Second Helpings. Millions of people have to have their cup of coffee every single day. And while many will pay upwards of four to five dollars daily for their caffeine fix, would you ever pay one hundred dollars? On December 19th 2013, Cerulean will give thirty Indianapolis residents the opportunity to taste a coffee worth such a high price and also help support a good cause.

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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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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #182

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'Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( BitCurrent , Year One Labs , GigaOM , Human 2.0 , Solve For Interesting , the author of Complete Web Monitoring , Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics ), Hugh McGuire ( PressBooks , LibriVox , iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist''s Manifesto ) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share

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Need Gifts for PR Pros? Here’s 12 of ‘Em

Waxing UnLyrical

'Since this season is all about giving (which we really should be doing all year long, but I won’t start preaching to you about that ) I thought today I would give you 12 “gift” ideas, one for each day leading up to Christmas Eve. If you pass just one of them on each day to someone – either the actual “thing” or idea – then we’ll have this lovely long chain of giving.

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How to Regroup and Keep Going After a Disappointing Launch

ProBlogger

'This is a guest contribution from Ernest Dempsey, fiction author. The big day has come and gone. You did all the prep work, created as much buzz as you could, and promoted from every angle. You blew up social media. Networked with peers and strangers. Met new people and helped them promote their stuff through your small, but growing channels. You spent countless hours getting your product ready to launch to the world, painstakingly covering all the bases so it would be as good as it could be wh

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