Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Smarter social networking. A few nights ago, I was part of the “ Get Geeky &# panel that Social Media Club-DC had put together. Along with Alex Howard , Frank Gruber and Shana Glickfield , we talked about “ smarter social networking.&#. To me, that’s what smarter social networking is.

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Firebelly

JULY 27, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week | Main | 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week » July 27, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer The Social Network , aka "The Facebook Movie," hits theaters October 1st.

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Mindjumpers

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Boye web-conference in Aarhus Denmark in search of interesting social media case studies. Whereas the first demonstrated how a small cupcake business has embraced social media in terms of marketing, this post will concentrate on how a major charity organisation uses the various platforms to raise funds. The Haiti Case.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 10, 2011

Social media is an interesting animal. Image: digitalbob8 via Flickr, CC 2.0. And that made me think some more: what is the hidden remarkability in the lives of those we encounter every day – or, at least, every few days – in social media? Image: Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Firebelly

JUNE 4, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Jakes Take: Fresh Logos, Fresher Coffee | Main | YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral! » June 04, 2010 Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter Heres an interesting look at a breakdown of the several different Twitter user types. Its kind of sexist really.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 6, 2012

The vibe I got via our communications on social media was just right. Being social on social media provides you the freedom to choose what level of “social” you want to give to each of the thousands of people you run into on any platform. Photo credit: Nicola Corboy , courtesy Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Technology.

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Firebelly

JULY 13, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 5 Fun Twitter Quizzes | Main | What the F**k is Social Media NOW? " That line opens this week's YouTube Tuesday video, a clever commercial for camping supplier Coleman. Your comment has not yet been posted. Your comment could not be posted.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2011

Backing up your social media information is helpful for personal use and a no brainer for any business with an active social presence! The good news…backing up your businesses social media accounts can save time, stress and potentially lost business, plus it’s simple and in most cases, costs nothing!

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We use social networking sites for different reasons, but it is crucial to grasp the WHY. We owe it to ourselves to continue doing things — raking leaves, running errands, posting status messages on social networking sites — on our own schedules and for our own reasons. Understand Social Media in 3 Words.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

How can you protect your children from social media? Create hundreds of profiles on hundreds on networks. Share images on Flickr. It goes viral in a social network and people get hurt. So how, as a parent, do we deal with the firehose that is electronic communication, that is social media?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 11, 2010

Over the course of the last week, while working on social media initiatives for several clients, the following questions or situations came up: A client missing an opportunity to engage in a conversation (coupled with desire of agency team members to respond). Photo credit: swiv via flickr. How has Social Media Helped You? (8).

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

There are a lot of ways to engage in social media, some of them effective…some of them not. If your organization is considering getting active in social or if you’re analyzing your current efforts, take a look at the following list and make sure you’re not undermining the success of your activities.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 12, 2011

Image: dj0ser via Flickr, CC 2.0. It was my reaction to seeing a spate of social media status updates that came across (granted, to me) as overly-inspirational or doggedly in the pursuit of convincing everyone else that, “Gee, folks, I have SUCH a great life, LOOK at me, I’m super-duper-califradgilistically-awesome!

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 24, 2010

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « 4 Tips To Start a Blog Big Mashable Social Media Meetup in Antwerp » Everything You Need To Know About Social Media Posted by Anne Herngaard Jun 24th, 2010 Tweet We have stumbled across this useful resource made by the Candadian marketing company Eloqua.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The social network, as most of us think of it, is nothing more than the likes of Facebook or Orkut, among others. All in all, it’s a great example that social networks can be used not justs by MNCs or brands for profitable motives, but that they can also be used to bring about social change!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 7 Reasons To Add Amplify To Your Social Networks December 21st, 2010 Tweet I first heard about Amplify earlier this year; I believe it was at the January chapter meeting of IABC/DC Metro.

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 8, 2010

I had an interesting discussion recently about Social media strategies. When discussing inputs to a social media strategy, an admitted “social media skeptic&# replied that she thought there shouldn’t be a need for them; rather that social media strategies were really just customer relationship strategies.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 22, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 2, 2010

So here’s a short checklist of how you can use social media to compliment your marketing activities. On a last note, when working on social media and marketing, it cannot be emphasized enough that tagging and linking is crucial to the number of results for your search.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Yet many companies limit the use of Social Media at work which I think is very short sighted. "Of Of those not allowed to use social media at work, 65 percent said their managers block access to sites like YouTube, Facebook and Flickr because they're afraid employee productivity will suffer."

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 25, 2011

The need for a social network that automatically aggregates all my “friends&# and then cuts off the irrelevant noise. Or are we in an infinite loop of growing out of social networks every five years? and we need a more productive network … not something unnecessarily more social.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2012

The biggest news in the history of social media took place Friday when Facebook had its IPO, becoming the biggest social name ever to join the public market. Its $108 Billion offering came in as the 3rd largest ever (behind Visa and Enel), so the day was significant not only for social media types but also for market watchers.

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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: What The HELL Is Social Media? Main | Are We Addicted To Social Media? » June 24, 2010 Jakes Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas Almost everyone is aware of the major social networkingwebsites in existence.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recently noticed that the service has added several other social media services to its metrics, which increases its value a hundred-fold (though I’d still say it’s overly weighted toward Twitter). Flickr – The photo sharing platform. Which social media websites would you like to see measured by Klout?

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Social media isn’t always the right tool for the job. Over the last three days, I’ve spoken to four HUGE brands in America that are considering social media for one project or another, and there are many more out there working on how these tools might integrate into their business needs. Not every company needs a blog.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 24, 2015

How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? This week’s roundup introduces you to some best practices for social media metrics. 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday. From likes to leads: The new metrics for B2B social selling.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Courtney Love gets sued over tweets | Main | Cyber Monday Is Here! » November 24, 2009 Social Networking Meets Game Consoles There used to be a time where you could play video games for video games and use the computer for computer related things. Availability?

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2020

Social networking as we know it was born in the 00s, but the last decade has seen the rise of social media’s true potential. As we look forward and wonder what’s in store for the next 10 years, let’s take a look back at what our favorite social media networks looked like in 2010. Credit: Shareaholic.

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Laurel Papworth

JULY 13, 2010

Social Media Monetization is becoming THE hot issue in online community chatter. Social Ads are driving down the price of regular online ads: A recent analysis by ComScore shows social networks, primarily Facebook and MySpace, have over the last year drawn an average CPM of only 56 cents, compared to the $2.43

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The Realtime Report

MARCH 13, 2014

Social media and viral content working on such a large scale is always a marvel to behold; however, it does create a bit of a conundrum for small businesses. As social media marketing remains an enigma for many SMBs, large-scale success seems so far away. So, Are We Just Chasing Trends? The Bottom Line.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 24, 2013

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. If social media and blogs in the U.S

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. There you have it: my holy Trinity of managing social media. ” 1. HootSuite.

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Social Media Marketing

JULY 13, 2012

There's been a lot of debate on the value of social media. After all, it's easy to argue about the potential of social media as a powerful sales channel. Source: Stig Nygaard (Flickr) Despite this excitement, there remains much controversy about the proper way to sell within the social landscape.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 15, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. Image credit: Jill Clardy (Flickr).

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