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The Gamification of Social Media

Social Media Marketing

By rewarding people with positive reinforcement for actions taken - much like Foursquare has become synonymous with - Empire Avenue uses a system of Achievements to recognize your progress. I could see companies like Radian6 (recently acquired by SalesForce.com ) acquiring Empire Avenue as an adjunct to their business.

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9 LinkedIn Users Describe Themselves

Ari Herzog

Summary : Co-founder and partner at Bonsai Interactive, offering smart marketing and social media business solutions, as well as mobile applications and social education. Currently based in Burlington, Canada, offering creative solutions to marketing, digital and mobile programs. FourSquare. Speaker at TEDx Ottawa.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

SocMed Sean

24) If part of your mobile/social strategy is to build a Facebook application, just remember that Facebook apps can’t be accessed via the Facebook mobile app. This is important because a large percentage of Facebook users access it from their mobile device, rather than via the desktop application. It’s creepy.

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Marina Arnaout outlines five key trends for social media marketers to watch and utilize, including online video, mobile and location-based services. Lasica and Kim Bale review 20 powerful fee-based tools for professional social media monitoring, among them Radian6 , Lithium , Alterian SM2 and Attentio. by Social Media Today.

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

Convince & Convert

Growth Is Slowing The true size of the Twitter audience is a bit tricky to pin down because 55% of its users do so via third party and mobile applications. Functionally, everything Twitter does, Facebook does just as well, with the exception of mobile usage. Check ( Facebook Lite ). Retweet-style sharing tools?

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

Convince & Convert

Radian6 For advanced social media listening, I often recommend my friends at Radian6 , who have – in my opinion – the most robust feature set and product development roadmap of all the widely available social listening platforms. Mobile access to the social Web is a virtual requirement to do it well.

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Social Pros 21 – Joe Stupp, Chipotle

Convince & Convert

I think the thing that struck me as particularly worthwhile talking about today was the deal with Radian6 / Salesforce and Twitter to give them real time firehose access to the Twitter tweets API , which as far as I know Twitter has never done that, has never given an individual vendor access at that level. Jay’s Thought of the Week.

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