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Why Do We Need a Social Media Policy?

SocialFish

Regardless of your beliefs about social media, it is here to stay – 500 million people on Facebook or 175 million registered users of Twitter can’t all be wrong. Then someone invented email discussion forums, and many members would be angry if you took them away. Therefore, every association needs a social media policy.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. Be proactive and not reactive. (To

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media). Social Events (e.g.,

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I see this seminar as a forum. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In In a forum, some threads get “stuck&# to the top and are thus afforded more visibility.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Sadly, this person’s post was pulled by the strict moderators on that forum; the post was purely self-promotional and nothing but. If you’re only on the forum to tell other people to visit your website or to use your product, you won’t go far.

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100 Examples of Corporate Social Media Policies

Koka Sexton

Social Media Handbook for Local Red Cross Units. Forum Guidelines. Template Twitter Strategy for Government Departments. Twitter External Discussion Guidelines. Newsroom Guidelines for Use of Facebook, Twitter and Other Online Social Networks. Organization. Policy Title. Template: Blogging and Social Media Policy.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts.