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SOSHABLE MARCH 31, 2012  Why Can’t Social Marketers Ignore Pinterest Any Longer? Is your business on Pinterest yet? Well, what are you waiting for? After all, it’s only quite possibly the hottest thing going in the social media space today. From tasty recipes to artistic photo galleries, this site is showing that it can be incredibly useful for sharing almost everything visual. We have clearly reached the point where we can say this thing is not a fad. More Traffic Your Way. | PAMORAMA MARCH 31, 2012 Inbound Marketing vs. Outbound Marketing [Infographic] The Web has empowered consumers in many ways, giving them new methods for finding, researching, and buying products. Marketing Marketing communication as a two-way dialogue emerged in response to these changes in behavior. People People no longer rely solely on TV/newspaper/magazine ads, billboards, direct mail, email, banner ads, and other traditional outbound marketing channels to learn about new products. [.]. Advertising Marketing Social Media Social Media Marketing Inbound Marketing Infographics Social media marketing | SOCIALFISH MARCH 31, 2012  Making Data More Human The title of this talk says it all, really – Making Data More Human. “Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada, currently living in New York. Coming from a background in genetics, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art.” Humanize | SMALL BUSINESS MAVERICKS MARCH 31, 2012 Thinking Of Starting A Small Business Blog? Stop Thinking And Do It! Blogging is old hat. Everyone blogs now so it’s no longer viable for my business. These are just some of the excuses that some business owners use when it comes to blogging. Unless you live on social media sites like Facebook, and publish reams of content day after day, a blog is still the single most effective way to communicate with both current and potential customers. Starting a small business blog is easier – if you access to your domains web tools, for example, through Cpanel, then it only takes five minutes to install a blog. So what is so good about a small business blog? | | | | | | | |
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TWIST IMAGE | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 Horizontal Marketing
Warning: this going to sound self-serving: Marketing has to stop being a vertical within the business and must become horizontal across all business lines. Period. End of sentence. Businesses, fundamentally see the concept of social business as a fad. As if, suddenly, the employees within the organization will no longer be connected to one another and no longer engaged on a smartphone or tablet (meaning they are not only hyper-connected but completely untethered). From the public facing side, consumers are beyond having expectations for a business to be social. Someone has to make the call. MORE >> -
SOSHABLE | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  TIL More Fortune 500 Companies are on Twitter than Facebook
Despite the vast and utter hugeness of Facebook, Twitter has a few more Fortune 500 companies on their platform instead of Facebook. The difference isn’t much and the circumstances behind the fact are unknown (not every company should be on Facebook or Twitter), but it still makes for an excellent tidbit that can be used by Twitter fanboys. In the meantime, here’s an infographic that breaks down the rest of the Fortune 500 social picture. Infographic by- GO-Gulf.com Web Design Company. Business Social Media Facebook Featured Infographics Twitter business social media infographic MORE >> -
SOCIALIZED | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012 Lightweight infographics: outsourcing original thinking
We have become a generation of inspirational stamp collectors. With the proliferation of lightweight infographics posted on Pinterest and Facebook, we have outsourced the personal tweet and the status update. We are present at a pivotal moment in the decline of modern civilization. The preeminence of these prepackaged ponderings is a MORE >> -
SOSHABLE | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  The Reddit Timeline Takes Us To The Future
Facebook may have the market cornered on social networking with their Timeline, but can theirs jump ahead to the future? think not, but social news site Reddit has Facebook blown out of the water with the Reddit Timeline. Through Reddit Timeline, available April 1 only, users can see what the front page of the site will look like next year, 10 years from now, even 39,988 years from now! We’ve explored it a little and there are certain things that stick out. The first question on many people’s mind is about who will win the presidential election. MORE >> -
STEPHEN P SMITH | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012  Thought-provoking Stuff for Saturday
Some reading for you: What It Takes: Rethinking Book. hesitated when I read the words video book in one of Steve’s upcoming posts. Maybe video? Or video series? But, not book. My early definition of books: My childhood favorites—Tikki Tikki Tembo and Blueberries for Sal—are heavy on images. The images faded in grade school, forcing an egg-headed edition of Ramona Quimby, and Meg, Charles Wallace, and a tesseract, to appear in my head. The more I read, the more I ran into other book formats—hardcover, paperback, mass market, special edition. About – Do Lectures. About. Do Crowd. MORE >> -
- Move Beyond Fear: Find and Keep Your Writing Voice in 10 Steps PROBLOGGER | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012
- Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #93 TWIST IMAGE | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012
- Plagiarism … or Inspiration? PROBLOGGER | SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2012
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