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Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

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The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr). However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). If you have a photo gallery, it should be everywhere.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

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Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0 Make sure you’re tying together your email program and your social media program. link] online marketing blog using facebook fan page as a newsletter is a great idea, thanks for the great article. Create a content ladder to leverage and syndicate your content.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

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But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. It is in many ways the social equivalent of “batch and blast&# email newsletters. Consumers don't say “Geez, I wish I could subscribe to more email newsletters.&# Probably not.

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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. It’s not hard, it’s complicated. It’s about humanization.

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

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I actually happened to have done social monitoring for several large national chains and they had all kinds of mentions on YouTube and Flickr – from which we learned that they had a big following among teens who use the restaurant as a “first date&# type spot where their parents drop them off there.

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

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Flickr Creative Commons Search This is my go-to source for photos for the blog and presentations. Using Flickr’s advanced search, you can browse photos that are specifically made available under a Creative Commons license , allowing you to use them with attribution in blog posts, etc.