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Ever Really Look at your Linkedin Contacts?

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Look at Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, Periscope/Meerkat/Blab, Redit, Youtube, Pinterest, WhatsApp and G Plus. But have you ever really looked at who you’re connected to on Linkedin? You know what I use Linkedin for? Let’s take stock really quick. Job seekers and recruiters.

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The Attention Economy is Distracting Me

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Linkedin has an endorse button, Facebook has a like button and G+ has the plus. I just don’t have an answer for you yet on how I can add your content to the 32 tabs I have open, Besides, I’m too busy looking at someone’s profile who I don’t know, endorsing me for a skill I don’t have on Linkedin.

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5 simple ways SMB’s can readily adopt social media and get rolling in one day

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2) Create a Facebook page. I bet you already have a Facebook page anyway right? Given that businesses can now create vanity URL’s on Facebook you have a great opportunity to grow your business using basic Facebook features for as little as an hour a day. Facebook allows for you to connect with your customers.

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Why Snapchat Content and the Longevity of Social Media Content are so Similar

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That means twitter content will not necessarily play well on Facebook and or Facebook content will not necessarily work on Linkedin-particularly after LinkedIn’s latest site changes*. Give it to them. It’s not so much the what as it is the how.

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If You Could Use Only One Social Media Solution, Which Would It Be?

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Just because a company can set up a Facebook fan page for example- does that mean that it will give them the biggest bang for their efforts? Tags: Social Networks Facebook YouTube Linkedin Twitter social media marc meyer. Maybe, maybe not. What is going to give them the biggest return, the biggest impact?

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Why Social Media Will Challenge Marketers in 2019

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In 2007, when I joined Facebook, it was all about the one degree of separation between you, and who you knew. Now it’s about so many “other” things besides you and yet, in 2019, it still comes back to you, particularly when we have to synthesize the latest batch of Facebook data privacy breaches.

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The Problem with the Social Web

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In the larger picture of the social web though-there is Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. “Come see our Facebook page and fan/like us&#. Recently I read where, First it was AOL, then it was Microsoft, then it was Google and now it’s Facebook. “View our Youtube videos and share them&#.

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