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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

After Google Voice and its third-party apps were turned down by Apple due to “it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc),&# Google built a completely browser-based app , avoiding the restrictions and not having to split the profits. You know what’s not a good idea? Pissing off Google.)

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

That content helps the company with SEO, and also builds a real-time, living FAQ of customer testimonials and insights. As Brian Solis has written about a lot, social optimization needs to be simple. It turns advocates into volunteer marketers. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog. It makes sharing simple.

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Convince & Convert

I believe Twitter will ultimately be the way that we interact with brands, and will power the social CRM movement. Twitter on the Go Certainly, the tie between Twitter and mobile is strong, as 63% of Twitter users access social networks via mobile phone, compared to 34% of social networkers as a whole. population.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

So, I have used the above 'Social Media' systems, and took up IT as a career in the mid 80's which allowed me to admin Office Vision, Sending messages across 3270 and 5250 terminals to chat, used pagers, the SMS clam shell RIM device, Motorola MicroTac Lite phones, saw the invention of the proto type ‘iPhone’ ‘The Simon (1992), integrated (..)