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MARCH 4, 2010

With every such success, however, you must feed the beast or it will get hungry and wander off. If you don't have remarkable content, you have not differentiated yourself and therefore is no reason for people to pay attention.

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JULY 21, 2010

Facebook substantially degrades image quality that are posted into a feed and merely linking to a piece of content is not infringing on it — if anything, it promotes it. Now if importing a feed of content (e.g. Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ).

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MARCH 25, 2010

Rehse-Holzer RT @AndrewBates: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works via @jaybaer | [link] [link] RobCairns RT @CrisBuckley: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works by @jaybaer [link] > May be…he's right. Worth a closer look.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

link] > @jaybaer [link] Stephanie Wonderlin Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? When applied to the area of Social CRM, we see the majority (+90%) of activity as reactive (social monitoring)– very focused on the service-side. – [link] (via @jaybaer) randyx123 I like your post Jay.

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JUNE 3, 2010

If it were up to them, those live feeds of the spill would not be available to the government or the public. If it were up to them, those live feeds of the spill would not be available to the government or the public. RT @jaybaer: The two words BP should steal from umpire Jim Joyce.

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MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. I will give it a try – and not abuse the RSS feeds.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Myspace also. Here are some additional ideas… “Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Myspace also. tools of social media always change.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Social media is at least as much science as it is art, and the agencies that develop those capabilities will have a meaningful edge. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds. There’s an optimal time of day and day of week to tweet. Between bit.ly

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JUNE 2, 2010

The last thing I need is a dressing room photo of me modeling Diesel brand fat pants hitting the public News Feed on Facebook. Also, hiding on your feed “friends&# whose advice you haven't really vetted out is an option. link] Ann Marie Bland Another layer of Social Media: Do You "Like" How I Look In These Jeans?

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APRIL 14, 2010

[link] Claude LaFreniere [ #Selling or #Helping ] "Social Media Success = Find a Way to Remove Friction" [link] #SocialMedia /cc @feedly [link] Claude LaFreniere [ #Selling or #Helping ] "Social Media Success = Find a Way to Remove Friction" [link] #SocialMedia /cc @feedly [link] Claude LaFreniere [ #Selling or #Helping ] "Social (..)

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JULY 14, 2010

Check it out:Social media is the servant [link] #marketing #socialmedia [link] Joshua Pearlstein Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] /cc @feedly [link] Joshua Pearlstein Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] /cc @feedly [link] Medias Sociaux Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master (..)

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MAY 26, 2010

[link] Tahire Khan RT @jaybaer: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media [link] [link] Carolina Fowler "14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media" What's your social media strategy, not your tools strategy?

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APRIL 1, 2010

RT @jaybaer: Get Your Social Media Story Straight [link] [link] Opinion@Large Great marketing lesson here.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# Can you RSS feed that?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Here’s what they’re doing right: Engage, Don’t Sell ThinkGeek has separated their Twitter messaging into TWO feeds – one designed to sell stuff (which is hilariously called @thinkgeekspam and posts updates about products and promotions) and one which posts all sorts of geek trivia and responses to fan questions and comments, called @thinkgeek.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

I can’t even read all the blog feeds I get, let alone comment on 10 percent of the blogs. So while incredibly useful, it’s usefulness isn’t obvious, because it’s not exactly a conversation, nor does it work primarily like a megaphone. Real conversations are extremely difficult to take part in on a massive scale.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.

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MARCH 18, 2010

Maslanka RT @thebrandbuilder: "Letters to the C-suite: Getting Serious about Social Media" (Required reading for all executives) – [link] via @jaybaer [link] Raul Colon "Letters 2 the C-suite: Getting Serious … Social Media" (Req. " (via @jaybaer ) So right!

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JULY 13, 2010

Naturally, I asked about his interest in mastering social media for his clients. Well, I got to start a Twitter feed for one client, but we no longer work for them. He’s been relatively happy at his new job, but is looking for the next career challenge. His answer? I don’t believe in a “digital divide.”

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. The only people who seem to take up the feed now are those tweeps making conversations– almost like a Twitter party without branding it as such. I love Twitter.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. All of these changes so quickly remind me of Myspace a few years back. Interaction not typically found on websites.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. All of these changes so quickly remind me of Myspace a few years back. Interaction not typically found on websites.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Meanwhile, however, I do very much like Facebook Lite , which strips down a lot of the shiny distractions, and gives you a threaded News Feed, birthdays, and events – and that’s about it. Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. What neither of them seems to have is an RSS feed for results, which would be the Holy Grail of Facebook open-graph API monitoring.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter is only one of the listening and engagement devices one can use in social media. Great topic as we all collectively feed the machine for today, tomorrow and next week. You certainly covered some great reasons to that point. And she might become a more loyal user of Pampers or even switch over from Huggies as a result.

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JUNE 30, 2010

I also agree that ThinkGeek's approach with two Twitter feeds to satisfy the needs of different audiences (attitudinally based vs. demographically- or even activity-based) is a step in the right direction. Our job as marketers is to understand those needs and make our products and services a perfect and irresistible solution.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Foursquare makes me figure that out on my own by browsing my feed.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. I’ve noticed more and more items popping up in my news feed recently informing me that several of my friends are now friends with their local pub or a nearby recording studio. i wish it still existed! Answers Yahoo!

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Todd Heim supplies a helpful guide to best practices for building a following on and generating traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx and Propeller. HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable. 6 tips for connecting with social media content by iMedia Connection.

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