Mon.Sep 23, 2013

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Ladies, choose a man as your mentor

Sherrilynne Starkie

'A mentor is someone who imparts wisdom to and shares knowledge with a less experienced colleague, according to the dictionary, but in real life, having a great mentor can mean getting better career opportunities. Mentors who have more seniority and power in their organizations can put their proteges on a career fast track. Studies have proven that having successful mentoring relationships result in greater career success including higher compensation, more promotions and greater job satisfactio

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Google No Longer Passing Keyword Referral Data for All Users

Bill Hartzer

'Wow, I knew this day was coming at some point, but I really didn’t expect that this change would happen this soon. Google no longer is passing keyword referral data through to websites. Google just made a huge change: if you search at Google, it appears that all searches (even from [link] are now secure, https searches. For all users. Even those who are not logged in.

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Kickass User Interfaces for Mobile Devices

Idaconcpts

'57.6% of Baby Boomers, 62.2% of Gen Xers, and 63.2% of Millenials in the United States used mobile devices to access the web in 2012, according to eMarketer. The mobile Internet population is sizeable and rapidly growing across all age groups. A key driver for mobile Internet use is email access. Email technology provider Return Path found 88% of mobile phone users checked their email via a handheld device daily.

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10 Winnable Ways To Increase Blog Traffic (That You Haven’t Thought Of)

Small Business Mavericks

'Increasing traffic to your blog is probably one of the most important things you should work on this year. Here are 10 uncanny ways to drive more traffic to your blog. Take posts from your blog and expand on them for an e-book. Create an e-book and self-publish it on the Kindle, ePub, and iBook formats. Sell it on Amazon.com. Use your blog and guest blog posts to promote your book.

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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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Apparently There Will Be No More Mobile Innovating At Microsoft

Bill Hartzer

'Apparently there will be no more mobile innovation at Microsoft. Well, at least that’s the impression you get if you look at the domain names that Microsoft did not renew. Microsoft, obviously on purpose, has chosen not to renew this group of domain names, as they will soon be available for anyone to register: innovateonmobile.com. innovateonmobile.net. innovateonmobile.org. innovateonwindowsmobile.com. innovateonwindowsmobile.net. innovateonwindowsmobile.org.

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ANYONE Can (and Should) be a Marketer! My New Business and Focus

Stay N' Alive

'About 7 years ago I was sitting in a full-time job, developing software as a senior engineer for UnitedHealth Group. I loved writing software, and began writing a few tools on the side just for the fun of it. I couldn''t build an audience though! I was stuck - great software, with nowhere to go. I''ve heard this over and over again from other software developers, small business owners, executives, product managers, and the like, all lacking the proper skills they need to grow an audience succes

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Firm Leaders: Are You Social?

Myrland Marketing

'Hootsuite, the Social Media management tool, recently published a post by Shawn Neumann , President and Founder of the web agency Domain7 , and a contributor to the HootSource Blog. It was called The Social Executive: Are You A Social CEO? Shawn writes that when he talks to other CEOs and executives, he finds fear and reluctance in the Social space.

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DISCUSS: Which Social Network Sends Your Blog the Most Traffic?

ProBlogger

'At PBEVENT last week I was having lunch with a group of 5 bloggers from quite different niches and for a few minutes the conversation centred around the topic of which social media sites send us the most traffic. We went around the circle and shared the top sources of social media traffic for our blogs and it was fascinating to hear how for different blogs and niches the answer changed.

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Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers AND Google Happy

Social Media Strategery

'Scott Smith , Nick Papagiannis and I had the opportunity to kick off Social Media Week Chicago with a presentation titled “Content Marketing That Wins: Making Brands, Readers, AND Google Happy ” to a packed house at Morningstar in Chicago. If you missed it, we’ve created a Storify for the event hashtag and embedded the livestream and presentation below.

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Men Closing the Social Media Gap

Proactive Report

'I am sure this is no big surprise, but two recent studies have found that women are more active in social media than men. I can already hear the comments about how women love to chat and share. But the disparity between the sexes is closing – after fairly slow growth over the past few years 2013 has seen a sudden surge in men using social networks, according to Pew Research.

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Social Media Automation 101

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