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Start Your Community With Role Models, Not Influencers

Social Media Strategery

" Most Silicon Valley types look at early users as viral marketers; Silbermann saw them as role models. . "And " Most Silicon Valley types look at early users as viral marketers; Silbermann saw them as role models. One of Pinterest's first and most active members wasn't a social media influencer.

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Social Media Could Have Transformed Marketing — Instead, It Amplified Its Flaws

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In 1999, Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger said the Internet would turn markets into conversations, audiences were actual human beings, and companies would come down from their ivory towers to create meaningful relationships. This article originally appeared in MediaPost.

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Brand Marketing and the Fair Pay to Play Act

Social Media Strategery

That obviously opens the door to everything from paid endorsement deals to social media “influencer” relationships. No matter what happens between now and then, there are also going to be some fundamental PR, communications, and marketing issues that need to be ironed out.

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What Does Integrated Marketing Mean to the Future of the PR Professional?

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For years, marketing, advertising, and public relations folks fought over budgets, scopes of work, ownership, and talent. The traditional buckets of marketing, advertising, and public relations seem so quaint now. Weber Shandwick created MediaCo , a new unit focused on content marketing, native advertising, and digital media buying.

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Klout for Enterprise 2.0 Networks is a Bad Idea

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takes issue with this idea of ranking people's influence on these internal networks. as a side note, I need one in real-life too – little did I know that my best friend’s reach and influence are really low and I should stop hanging out with him and instead make new friends who can optimize my conversations better).

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You Become What You Measure

Social Media Strategery

What scared me as I read this article is that I see marketing and PR taking the exact same road. We use sophisticated algorithms to measure the specific level of influence people have among their friends. We ignore reporters and bloggers who don’t measure up to some arbitrary influencer score. Where does it stop?

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

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For a long time, there was a perception that social media marketing was free, or at least very inexpensive. In reality, social media marketing has never been free. Most brands now know the real costs of social media marketing are not as great as the opportunity costs of bad social media strategy. billion industry.