Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Chances are that you’re one of the over 300 million people who have set-up a virtual home on Facebook because it is a great place to keep up with family and friends, as well as connecting with businesses and groups of interest. It is also a place filled with fascinating information – blog posts, videos, photos and news articles.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

A finely-tuned marketing and social media strategy which creates a level of buzz, but isn’t matched by the actual experience or product in real life will do nothing other than create a group of disappointed, and likely vocal, customers. Have you seen examples of brands using social media well or others missing the mark?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. What do you think will be seen in 2010?

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Reading the list of LeWeb Official Bloggers , you’ll quickly note that it is a diverse group, coming from many different countries. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career?

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Earlier in the year I got up and spoke in front of a group of 40+ people about my blogging and job search, the the room was set up with wi-fi and there were plenty of laptops there then too. Martin Piraino´s last blog.

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Almost Savvy

JUNE 29, 2009

Is it really new to wonder why some other group is invading “your&# space? Does technology “belong&# to any one group or generation? Then, I realized we could have a little fun with this and allowed my thoughts to wander to an older form of communication – radio. Are Facebook and Twitter just the new radio?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. Absolutely.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Karrer and Michele Martin have just launched Work Literacy , which is: "a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work." Lijit Search. Lijit Search. NASA Space Store.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A friend, who knew of my growing interest and skills, invited me to speak to a local organization and share some tips. Creating that safe environment where the only agenda is helping each other, thereby gaining more for yourself than could be imagined, is one of the key concepts behind the groups I lead.

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Almost Savvy

APRIL 6, 2010

People influence me with an amalgamation of their actions, written words, spoken words, body language, how they treat others, their associations (people, groups and activities) and how they spend their time.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Many IT organizations are being put in yet-another-pickle in meeting the challenges of the newest crop of knowledge workers. Although the technology is relatively straightforward, organizing and executing around it seems to be the sticking point. And, for many IT organizations, thats a structurally hard thing to do.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Use the groups features and find groups where you might want to contribute. The Social Media 100 is a project by Chris Brogan dedicated to writing 100 useful blog posts in a row about the tools, techniques, and strategies behind using social media for your business, your organization, or your own personal interests.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 3, 2009

I know; I took some of them using their cameras and cell phones so they could all get into the group shots. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career?

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Volunteer with a non-profit organization. Participate in local and industry-specific networking groups. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career?

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Almost Savvy

MAY 3, 2009

The Virtual Writers Group ( [link] ) is a blog about writing, with a heavy emphasis on the writing business in the digital age. I’m the virtual group leader of the Florida Writers Association, and that blog is an outgrowth of that position (but I need to market it better). Who doesn’t have a blog these days?

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Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

If you send an update to a select group but you don’t make it your default, the people who are excluded will still be able to get to your wall but won’t see the specific post. Sure, I have days where I wonder about my place in the world or why, despite my best efforts, I continue to have jiggly arms. Hope that makes sense!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Take a look at the Social Media Responsibilities Worksheet we use at the Flint Group. I have seen far too many organizations fail, from the outset, for not having had a clear understanding of the discipline and rigor needed to keep their social media marketing efforts on the tracks.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. so if last decade consumers trusted google organic results and arguably ppc positions, then this decade they will place greater value on their increasing reliance of social recommendation via their social circles.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs. This is a great outline of how to best organize your content action plan. What do you think? Worth a try?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. This helps organize content and plan for creation topically (ex. Joining the LinkedIn group now. I actually work at Vertical Measures!

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 31, 2010

I hit a gold mine … group membership, image maintenance, all of that … real juicy stuff. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

In my exuberance and passion for social media and the impact it can have on non-profit organizations I lost sight of what was important. Embracing social media should not mean organizational change, it should change the organization. Social media exists and organizations are in it whether they choose to be or not.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights. Most organizations aren't embracing and are missing wonderful insights. Great thoughts, Laura!

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Josh S Peters

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Right now the camps seem to be polarized and split into two very outspoken groups. Such measures are commonly used to help an organization define and evaluate how successful it is, typically in terms of making progress towards its long-term organizational goals&# By now we should all know that social media is all about the long haul.

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 1, 2009

When I do large group meetings I simply put my email on the overhead. Alphabetical organizers are iffy because they require me to remember the person’s name or business name to find them again. I’d imagine that you primarily deal with a very tech savvy group who are comfortable with your approach.

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Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Great post to help both groups. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career? I will share the link with friends too. Imran [link] Imran Anwar´s last blog.

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Almost Savvy

JULY 15, 2010

The former group will hopefully learn from its mistakes. twitter organize spam Students technology trust Twitter Proud to be featured on Social Media Informer The what and why How can I help you leverage social media and networking for your business or career?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Your votes count for 30% of the “scoring&# when organizers determine who gets to speak at the mighty SXSW Interactive festival in March in Austin, Texas. For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund , we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation ®.

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Tweeters that I have traded many @replies with get into my “persons of interest&# group in TweetDeck. Yep, I use TweetDeck: I’ve got 6 columns: stream, @, DM, plus two groups: (persons of interest and news tweets) plus another search column for my interests. My only question is which column am I in?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to print out all your key metrics on one piece of paper, for easy distribution and circulation within your organization? Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? ™ RT @upwardaction: Great tool!->A

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Group them into personas related to the tagged characteristics. Are you suggesting that any use of software or databases to help organize and scale your social outreach is invalid? “Tagging&# and projecting your expectations on groups is very inside out thinking. And of course product improvement ideas are important.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Crucially, their expectations have changed. Even wasting time is useful.&# It scares me.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve even left the stat breakdown public so you can see all the views are organic, not off-shored to get views (like some video companies have done). link] and you can “independently verify&# the 80,000+ views so far in the past 10 days since uploading it since this one is hosted on YouTube. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. They like it. They’re pretty good at it. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

a vote for integration) [link] [link] Sumo Group Great article Jay – as always. a vote for integration) [link] [link] Josh Shua Peters RT @jaybaer: Why is your email and social media being handled by different people? (a You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

You can’t rely solely on me or any other consultant or agency to turn the tide in your organization. I think it's sad that so many C-Suite execs and “higher-ups&# seems hesitant or even against implementing social media practices into their organizations. It has to come from you. telegraph service).

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

I've seen a ton of organizations missing the boat on integrating everything in their marketing mix so that it's at the very least, a consistent brand message. I've seen a ton of organizations missing the boat on integrating everything in their marketing mix so that it's at the very least, a consistent brand message.

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