Sat.Dec 18, 2010 - Fri.Dec 24, 2010

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Don’t Put All Your Social Media Eggs In One Basket

Dave Fleet

Tweet So, a rumour says that Yahoo is shutting down Delicious … or not. Cue a mass exodus as many people, including myself, look for ways to back-up thousands of bookmarks they’ve saved over the years. They also look to backup their photos on Flickr, as people realize that site may not be a sure thing after all. Meanwhile, Facebook rolls out revamped Page layouts for brands… and then rolls them back, after first taking their site down for a while.

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Facebook vs. Twitter [infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet Digital Surgeons has been comparing the two most popular social networks: Facebook and Twitter. See who the users are and what their behavior is – how often do they login, how many users follow a brand and how often do they update their status. This infographic gives you an overview of some key numbers as well as some demographic traits of the users such as gender, income, age and education.

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7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro. My friend (and client, but he’s a friend first) Shashi Bellamkonda is, I think, genetically-wired to try and talk about new things – no doubt why he’s Network

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Social Media Management Blues

SocialFish

December is a busy time for everyone, so I hope you’ll all forgive me for repurposing a post from my blog this month. Ok, maybe “rant&# is a better description than “post&# …but after I ran it on my blog I got a lot of feedback indicating that I’m not the only one who feels this way so at least it’s a rant that many can relate to.

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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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5 Ways to Digitize Santa

Dave Fleet

Tweet It’s nearly time for Santa to round up those reindeer and hit the skies for another round of gift-giving. A couple of years ago, in the spirit of the season, I put out some suggestions on how Santa could fix-up his PR. This year, I got to thinking what I’d do to digitize Santa. 1. @Santa. Santa already has a Twitter account – @Santa.

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Highlighting the Social-ness in Social Media this Holiday Season

Direct Marketing Observations

A few weeks ago I was selected as one of the Top Social Media Strategists to Watch in 2011. That was cool in that it’s nice to be recognized, but then a few days later I got the following email. We’re excited to have you on our list of “ Top Social Media Strategists to Watch in 2011.” We admire your work and look forward to seeing what you come up with in 2011!

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Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible December 24th, 2010 Tweet Note: this is not a religious post, and is meant neither to proselytize nor offend. Tomorrow Christians around the world will be celebrating the birth of Christ.

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A New Approach

Dave Fleet

Tweet A large part of what we do for many digital clients involves managing content and community for their online properties. However, in this case the cobbler’s son ( my blog ) has gotten to the point where he has no shoes. For the last several years, I’ve focused on writing long-form content for this site. Each post that I’ve written has generally taken me between one and three hours to write, as I prefer to share in-depth, thought-out ideas that either provoke new thoughts

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Finding Fresh Voices

Justin Levy

As we wind down 2010, I’ve begun assessing what I’ve accomplished and what new challenges I’m going to take on in 2011. The end of a year and the beginning of a new one is always a good time to do some cleaning whether it be reorganizing my office, cleaning out file folders, changing up how I stay organized or anything else to introduce a little shock into the system and prepare for the year ahead.

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Foursquare Gives Users a Holiday Gift

Mindjumpers

Tweet Yesterday, Fousquare launched a new version of their service. This improvement makes it possible for users to share comments and photos, which therefore makes Foursquare’s users interact a lot more with each other. The new features might been expected to get launched by some users and it’s seems like people are already testing and using it.

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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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Seven Ways to Use Social Media for Business

Webbiquity SMM

Though business use of social media is rapidly increasing, many executives remain skeptical of its value. From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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What we’d like for Christmas

SocialFish

Have we been good this year? Have we helped you in small or big ways this year? I hope so! Because that’s what we’re here for and why we do what we do! :). So, at the risk of being cheeky, if you’d like to give us a little Christmas present in return, here are some quick and easy little gift ideas. - if you’ve read the book, please review Open Community on Amazon. - if you haven’t read it yet, buy the book or buy the e-book. - either way, buy one as a gift for a

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What a Trifecta of a Year!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Last year I wrote about how some weeks are hard to top and how lucky I was to have launched my first book – Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) with my co-author Rich Krueger, and I was nominated for BtoB Marketing Magazine’s (a Crain’s publication) list of the Top 25 BtoB Marketers of the Year 2009. And appeared on the Facebook Halloween episode of HubSpot TV (my favorite web TV show) all in one week!

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The Art of Being Personal While Sticking To Business Objectives

Social and Logical

Social Media is Fun When There is No Pressure. No kidding. We all know how effortless social media can feel when we are doing it for personal reasons. Think of how sites like Facebook is an addiction for some people. When social media is done without expectations or pressure, we are in a different state of mind where our actions flow. This is when sharing and creating posts is fun and effortless.

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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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MeasurePR: Paywalls, Pitches And Prognoses

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR: Paywalls, Pitches And Prognoses December 23rd, 2010 Tweet On Wednesday, we held this year’s last #measurePR Twitterchat. I asked Jennifer Zingsheim of CustomScoop , who’s “appeared&# on the chat before, to come back.

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W00t! HUGE Congrats to NTEN, recipients of a $1.1m grant from Google

SocialFish

If you haven’t heard yet, check out this amazing news from our friends at NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network: NTEN Receives $1.1 Million Grant from Google to Aid Nonprofit Technology Adoption. &# The grant will support NTEN’s work to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work, and beyond that, to produce research and training on cloud technologies and data management, visualization, and collaboration.&#.

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Build Your Brand through Social Media Consistency

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Eduard Ezeanu who provides communication coaching and helps people put their best foot forward in communication, both online and offline. I believe that one of the best things you can do though social media is build your brand. This means creating a unique, memorable and convincing image of yourself in the eyes and minds of others.

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Not So Delicious

Social Media Marketing

Well, it was bound to happen. Yahoo has decided to sunset some of its services, and that includes social bookmarking site Delicious. And here we see one of the inherent dangers of relying on (free) third-party sites for business and personal purposes. If you don't have control over your data, you're exposing yourself to a potential house of cards that can come tumbling down at any time.

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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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Meet 19 Twitter Users Following Me and Discover Why They Are All Fake

Ari Herzog

Bernadette Ferard followed me on Twitter yesterday. I noticed her name today, along with a list of similar-looking names and I had a hunch she was a fake account. I noticed she (or someone using that name) created an account yesterday and tweeted the same message twice. In the message, she writes she snapped some pictures with a waterproof Canon camera and invites you to see the results.

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Social Organizations Make Mistakes

SocialFish

Back in February I talked about the role of learning in social organizations , which is critical. Learning has always been the heart of social media for me. It’s what hooked me in terms of my own participation, and it’s always my answer when people give me the “who has time for social media?&# argument. I learn so much, with such a small amount of time and effort–how could I resist?

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YouTube introduces trends | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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5 Favorite Lists of Bloggers and Marketing Experts in 2010

Kikolani

In 2010, there have been some amazing compilations of bloggers and marketing experts created in order to help you find new sources of information on blogging, business, social media, Internet marketing, and making money online. These lists included a variety of experts who are seasoned in their niche, as well as some who have gained a lot of notoriety in just their first year.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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My Top Posts of 2010 on SEO, PR and Social Media for News and Sports

Adam Sherk

Another year has passed and that means it is time for marketing blogs to do their obligatory top posts of the year roundups. Despite the cliché I like reading them because it is a good way to discover things I may have missed during the year. And on my own blog I’m certainly curious to know which posts brought in the most traffic this year. So yes I’m joining the club.

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Facebook vs Twitter Infographic

Idaconcpts

Continue below to access the infographic by digitalsurgeons. Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn. Post on Google Buzz. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Reddit. Digg this! Share this on Technorati.

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The 5 Critical Social Media Skills You Need to Disperse

Convince & Convert

Tweet Your customers, prospects, and the people looking for you online don’t care about your company structure. If they find you on Twitter, or leave a comment on your blog, they’re looking for a response from anyone who can help, regardless of what department that person represents or what someone’s official job title is. Everybody in your company is in marketing, whether they want to be or not.

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How to Track Santa Claus

Bill Hartzer

Do you want to track Santa Claus this year online or by phone? Well, here is your chance. tw telecom voice communications services at NORAD lets you track and monitor Santa Claus’s movements through their annual “NORAD Tracks Santa&# program. tw telecom is partnering with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) in Colorado Springs, Colorado to help track Santa Claus as he travels the world delivering toys to good boys and girls this Christmas Eve, December 24, 2010.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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Weekly Roundup: Refreshingly Different

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: Refreshingly Different December 19th, 2010 Tweet So many posts, so little time… It’s the time of year when online noise gets louder (not a scientific statement, just my opinion), and everyone’s talking about lists, predictions for the new year, yada yada.

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Why your AdWords Landing Pages Should Match your Brand

Idaconcpts

We spend so much time optimizing our Adwords campaigns, to filter out the searches we do not need, ensure our ads are well-positioned and don’t cost the earth. This is perhaps where more optimization goes in as this is where we can actively see the cash draining out of our budget. There is also a tendency to think that once we have gotten the customer to click through to our website, then the battle is won.

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The Dirty Secrets of Time, Priorities, and Honesty

Convince & Convert

Tweet I hate excuses. And the one I despise most of all is “I don’t have time.&# Bullshit. You can find the time. It exists. You choose not to devote the time, and there’s a big difference. I don’t work out. (people that have met me in person are LOLing about the understated nature of that last sentence) Sure, I’m a busy guy.

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Why Every Website Should Be Like Skittles

Ari Herzog

I challenge every website owner to change their site and be interactive in 2011. I challenge you to think like Skittles. This video I created elaborates… Links within the video: Skittles , M & M’s , Hershey’s , Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups , and Swedish Fish. -- Thank you for reading Why Every Website Should Be Like Skittles at AriWriter.

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Search Engine Optimization: 5 Keyword Research Tips

Bill Hartzer

One of the most important, if not the most important, part of search engine optimization is keyword research. Properly researching the keywords and keyword phrases is important for several reasons. Find out what people are searching for, which keywords are more popular than others, and focus your website’s content around those keywords. Here are five keyword research tips that will help your overall search engine optimization efforts. 1.