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Some Social Tools You Should Know About

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NutshellMail users social network updates so they don’t have to login and check. Inside View gives users an aggregate view of the social presence and activity of a company. CloudFlood gives away freebies in exchange for social media actions. ” It is a great way to find images for social media content.

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We didn’t mean that transparent…

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NJ Principal Asks Parents To Ban Social Networking. When some of us first got into social media we touted, and admittedly I still do, the transparent and authentic nature of it all. We just didn’t realize how much social networks didn’t. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy.

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Who’s making the rules in social media?

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Simply put, a bunch of software engineers and developers built a system in which they assumed they knew what the user wanted without really asking. The biggest mystery however lies with marketers trying to get inside the heads of the users to determine how they can turn them into loyal brand advocates. The reason? Stay tuned.

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Eventually we’ll all be good at social media and then what?

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Just like the early days of the internet and AOL, of email and using Hotmail and Outlook for some good ole’ email blasts, of SEO, of pay per click, of content marketing and so on and so forth. Those will be “must have’s&# and not “would be nice&# reqs-and that won’t be asking a lot either.

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Protecting Children from Social Media

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“I’m on top of it, I know what this social networking thing is all about&# , “My child doesn’t really use it&# , “Does it really matter? And… the majority of these activities have incredible SEO ( search engine optimization) ramifications. It goes viral in a social network and people get hurt.

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Selling Social Media

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The one sales rep grabbed the phone and put me on the phone with the engineer. The engineer could not answer the question either and asked if they could email me the answer. Tags: sales social media marc meyer marketing and sales selling social media social media sales social media solutions.

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The dark side of good work in social media

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So the awareness campaign work I’ve done for this client over the last 3 months is now starting to show up all over the search engines. Might be time to update the resume… Tags: social media Social Networking marc meyer blogging. It shows up and it shows up high if you know what you were doing.