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So What’s The Big Deal About Google + Your World? Will It Kill Facebook And Twitter?

SocMed Sean

So when Google+ launched, I jumped in again but was, again, seriously unimpressed with the “me too” nature of trying to copy Facebook, Twitter, and Skype. So when Google announced a new product called “Google + Your World” and everyone started announcing the death of Facebook and Twitter, I was naturally skeptical.

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Shhh…Don’t Tell. You Can Still Post Your Tweets To Other Platforms

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Shhh… photo courtesy of Sarah G on Flickr via Creative Commons license. Recently, Twitter has been behaving pretty anti-socially with their data. What I found was that I can still leverage IFTTT and the Twitter RSS feeds, to do what I wanted. to l earn about the Twitter RSS parameters.

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Your Blog Stinks! You Should Quit!

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You published 30 articles this year, but none of them have gone viral , you still only have 250 followers on Twitter (none of whom retweet you), and your Google page rank still sits at a 2. Photo courtesy of functoruser on Flickr via Creative Commons license. Photo courtesy of skpy on Flickr via Creative Commons license.

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The One Tip That Took My Blog To New Levels. Stop Caring.

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Not just from researching and writing articles, but form the comments/feedback that I have received and the conversations that have been sparked with others via social networks like Twitter. Stop caring about how many followers you have on Twitter and how many retweets you get. Stop caring about how many subscribers you have.

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Why The Term “Social CRM” Is Just STUPID!

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Does adding Twitter to your CRM process make it more social? Photo by Andres Rueda on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons For those of you who don’t know what CRM stands for, it’s Customer Relationship Management and it’s a term often used by software vendors like SalesForce.com to describe their products.

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Spring Cleaning For Your Blog – How A Little Work Can Drive Search Engine And Social Media Traffic

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"Spring" via promanex on Flickr under creative commons license. Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Ahhhh Spring! But with Spring also brings with it the need to do Spring cleaning.

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Thumper’s Rule – Knowing When And How To Avoid An Online Argument

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'Angry bird puts a lid on it' courtesy of etee on Flickr via Creative Commons license If you’re engaged in social media for either personal or professional purposes (and if you’re reading this, I’m betting you are), there’s an important skillset and rule that you might want to think about: The art of not replying.