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10 Questions You Should Ask Your Social Media “Expert”, “Guru” or “Wizard”

SocMed Sean

Believe it or not, online social networking didn’t start with Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Plenty of social media professionals have experience that goes back to online bulletin boards, forums on CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL, and online forums. Will you provide me with links to your accounts?

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Facebook Tip: Changing From Mobile To Desktop View On Your iPad Or Tablet

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If you are a tablet owner, though, you probably know that apps like Twitter and Facebook treat your tablet as a mobile device by default. Personally, I hate the stripped-down, ad-heavy versions of the Facebook and Twitter apps, so I browse them using the native desktop view in Safari or Chrome. Facebook can be just as infuriating, too.

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Employees Are A Critical Element To Your Social Media Success – Are You Leveraging Yours? Apple Isn’t!

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Without people and their personal relationship information, social media sites like Facebook and Twitter would be reduced to…well…MySpace. But the most egregious error on Apple’s part is the fact that they provide product forums, but don’t allow their employees to participate or comment. Deleting my post!

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Is Your Social Media Strategy Truly Agile?

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Maybe this week they’ll be all over Twitter. Next week, it might be YouTube or a private forum. Answer the needs of your community. Self-organizing teams – You cannot define where your community is going to engage. As your community self-organizes, so you should.

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

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Sure, frequent contributors to a site often get to know each other personally, but do you really need to bring off-topic arguments to a forum where they aren’t of benefit to the community? If you’re being contrary just to spur the debate, be VERY clear about it.

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Social Media Ostriches – The Corporate Hypocrisy Of Blocking Employee Access To Facebook and Twitter

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Every time I hear of companies blocking Blogging Sites, Facebook, Twitter, and other Social Media sites, it makes me wonder what curmudgeon or poorly informed leader is calling the shots and what experience drove them to make the decision. There is a lot of good information being traded through blogs, tweets, and forums.

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It’s 2AM, Do You Know Where Your Organizational Information Is??

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Now, add modern day blogs, tweets, text messages, forum posts, comments, status updates, videos, podcasts, and wiki posts to your list and what do you get? Phone, website, Twitter, etc.) Do you have corporate accounts for sites like Twitter, YouTube, Blogger, LinkedIn, and Facebook? More information? Definitely!