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How a Social Media Evangelist Became a Social Media Realist

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You can buy thousands of Facebook likes. And there are all too many social media experts, ninjas, and gurus ready to help them get on Twitter, start a Facebook page, and check in on Foursquare. There are Google+ master classes. You can read multiple books for marketing your business on Pinterest.

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Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation…Just Not the Conversations You Want to Have

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“ and jump on the bandwagon of whatever trend they can find (side note: the Condescending Corporate Brand Facebook page is one of my new guilty pleasures). If you give me something (coupons, discounts), I’ll put up with your annoying habits (spamming my social media feeds). It’s about transactions.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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Starting a Facebook or Twitter account was free, and hiring a part-time intern to manage them didn’t cost much. Fast-forward a few years, and we’re seeing more and more organizations hire entire teams to create content for Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, and whatever hot new social media startup launched last week.

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

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I walked them through how to use both RSS feeds and del.icio.us , and showed them how they could use simply tag their relevant media coverage using whatever tags and descriptions made sense to them. They could then create an RSS feed for those tags that is placed onto their internal Intranet site. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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Top Ten Quotes From BlogWorld 2008…thus far! | Social Media Strategery

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Here are the top ten things that I’ve overheard and/or saw in the Conference Twitter feed. I don’t have the time today to fully read your entire site but I have bookmarked it and also signed up for your RSS feed. Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 I’ll back around in a day or two.

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Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners?

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We’ve seen the return of the Koobface virus , the Marines have banned social networking sites (*UPDATED: No, they haven’t ) , and both Twitter and Facebook were overcome by denial-of-service attacks. Jay Sebastian I’d just like to mention that the Marine Corps did not place a ‘total’ ban on social media sites.

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