Tue.Mar 15, 2011

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Flutter: The New Twitter

Firebelly

Today’s YouTube Tuesday video is the Flutter: The New Twitter mockumentary. Sometimes 140 characters is just too long; nano-blogging is the next big thing. [Video URL: [link] ]. What can you say with only 26 characters?

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Using Social Media To Enact 3 Levels Of Social Change

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest post by Jason H. Parker. How much do you know about electronics recycling? Think about this before you Google it, and I’ll bet you’re in roughly the same place I was just four weeks ago. Turns out (when you research, beyond your first Google result) that “electronics recycling” (or ecycling , for short), isn’t as socially friendly as you’d believe.

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ChromeDeck, it’s TweetDeck for Google Chrome

Josh S Peters

Check this out Google Chrome users, TweetDeck has created an app, named ChromeDeck, that runs it’s multi-column twitter client in a tab. How cool is that? Typically I use two monitors to work. On my laptop’s screen I have my email, Chrome, a note pad, and Pandora open. On my second monitor I have TweetDeck and Evernote going. For me this is how I am the most efficient, but at least 2x a week I’m not in an office.

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Tweet Once More and Lose Your Job

Ari Herzog

P.J. Crowley and Gilbert Gottfried were fired this week because of insensitive and tasteless tweets. These aren’t ordinary men. Crowley served as press secretary at the U.S. Department of State, and Gottfried was the voice of the duck in TV commercials for the American Family Life Assurance Company (more commonly known as Aflac). To the uninitiated, here are videos featuring both Crowley and Gottfried.

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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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Social media boosts campaigns | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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Company Settles with FTC for $250,000 Over Misleading Online Reviews

Bill Hartzer

A company that sells guitar-lesson DVDs online has settled with the Federal Trade Commission for a whopping $250,000 over charges that the company “deceptively advertised its products through online affiliate marketers who falsely posed as ordinary consumers or independent reviewers&#. The company supposedly schemed to have fake positive reviews posted online.

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The Essential Guide to Lucrative Guest Podcasting

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Chris from The Traffic Blogger. Appearing on a podcast is exhilarating, fun and most importantly: easy. All you need is a skype connection and most podcast crews will be able to have you on their show as either a special guest or temporary cohost. 5 Reasons to Guest Podcast. If you are knowledgeable in your subject area and can hold an entertaining conversation, then you are already more than capable of taking advantage of guest podcasting to promote your site (and make m

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Google Search Quality Still Lacking After Google Farmer Update

Bill Hartzer

As you are probably aware, Google has been in the media spotlight lately about their search quality. And today, Huffington Post published a blog post titled “ Content is Best Fresh, Not Farmed “ Oh Really? Let’s take a look at Google’s search results for a popular news item that I wrote about yesterday, Chitika’s FTC Settlement in regards to behavioral ad targeting.

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F-Commerce - Rise Of The Facebook Consumer

Twist Image

What the Facebook? While visiting Florida last October, I noticed a wall of gift cards near one of the checkout counters at a Target store. Gift cards are big business these days and many retailers are getting in on the action. With all of the options available, one brand really jumped out at me. It was a gift card for Facebook. The current incarnation of these gift cards assigns Facebook Credits into your Facebook profile, which can be used to buy stuff like virtual tractors in the popular onli

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Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool? | Small Business Mavericks

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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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The Specialization of Social Media Analysis

Net-Savvy Executive

Judging from the way people are talking about it, social media analysis is segmenting into at least three subspecialties. As usual, we're using multiple labels that occasionally overlap, so the potential for miscommunication is great. Whatever the utility of any one approach, companies need a complete set of tools, so let's keep these emerging specializations in context.

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My chat with Alastair Campbell; will the PM ever engage social media?

Danny WhatMough

Tweet. I had an interesting chat with Alastair Campbell yesterday. Yes, that’s right, THE Alastair Campbell. Ok, it was on Twitter and was part of # commschat (the weekly Twitter chat session for the PR industry), but was still a fascinating chance to speak with one of the infamous communication professionals of the last 10 years. Can digital and politics mix?

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Is it Time to Quit Blogging?

ProBlogger

Blogging ain’t easy. Just ask the hundreds of bloggers that quit within the first three months. You might have lurked around your favorite blogs and thought that you could do it too, so you started your blog. You’ve now you’ve hit a wall and want to quit. So what do you do? Reflect on why you started. Ask yourself, “why did I begin blogging&# ?

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What will the PR agency of the future look like? #prcadebate

Danny WhatMough

Tweet. A few months ago, I started a small debate on Twitter sparked off by some thinking I’ve been doing recently about PR agencies and how they are structured. This (as these things do) turned into a blog post and got a fair amount of pick up across the industry. I was therefore delighted when the PRCA took up the baton and decided to take the debate offline… That moment has now arrived!

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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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Geek curry night in Peterborough…

The Way of the Web

The belated arrangements for the fourth meetup for ‘ Digital People in Peterborough ‘ have now been announced, and in a change from the pub format, it’s going to be a curry night … I’m still surprised that something I’d mentioned in passing to my good friend @pjeedai and virtual acquintance (at the time) @joffff has turned into a regular meetup which sees 20+ digital people get together for drinks, food and chatting.

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Closing thoughts on SXSW

Jeff Esposito

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Howdy From SXSW in Austin, Texas!

Mindjumpers

Tweet Guest blog written by Iben Larsen, who is a cultural anthropologist and MA in Media Science, based in Copenhagen. She’s p assionate about entrepreneurship, networking, personal and professionel development. Currently, she is at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, from where she is blogging. You can follow her on Twitter at @ibeniben.

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How Social Media Weaves Its Way Into Your Life

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Social Media enables you as the Page Admin and Community Manager to connect with individuals on a one-to-one level. Just years ago it would be difficult for a common man to be heard and listened to by brands and business houses, Social Media has made it feasible for heads of an organization to dip into real time conversations and know where their brand and business is going, or not going.

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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.