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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Social Events (e.g., Eventful, Meetup, Upcoming, etc.). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). . • Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

Michael Dell spoke about the issue of proximity in an article in Forbes back in 2006: The first step was to add blogs and message boards in the hope that irate customers will talk to the company rather than gripe to the whole Internet. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well?

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

In the team’s defense, they do have a nicely executed Events tab, and the Wall seems to be pretty active, with a variety of contests for fans. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook.

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Social Media in Action: Twitter and Emergency Response | Social.

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 The filters mentioned above would have to tuned such that an event would only ping if multiple people reported it and provided evidence such as photos, videos, locations, etc., Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

If you can’t think of what to blog about, get inspiration from the news, industry occurrences, message boards and other communities where your customers are hanging out. Blog regularly 1-3X minimum per week. This is the blogger as task-master part. Let your talented employees be your bloggers – ask for volunteers to start.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

Virtually every social media monitoring tool worthy of the label covers the big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit) and content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr). The best also monitor message boards and forums, easy to overlook but critical particularly for niche b2b products and services.

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