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

Social Media Strategery

Social media was going to change the world, and I wanted to be at the tip of the spear. I joined a rapidly growing cadre of change agents using social media to radically transform everything from fixing potholes and broken stoplights to managing city budgets. . No one talked about social “content.”

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Start Your Community With Role Models, Not Influencers

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" What if PR and social media community managers stopped worrying about targeting the influencers with the most Klout , the highest PeerIndex score, or the highest Empire Avenue share price, and instead worried about identifying the people who are best equipped to create and maintain a healthy community?

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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.

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Why Social Media is Scary | Social Media Strategery

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 From our most senior VPs to senior executives within the government to our summer interns, every group has their own set of questions, concerns, and pre-conceived notions about social media and what it means for them.

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Seven Things About Social Media That You’re Not Going to Learn in College

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I talk a lot about the need to do a better job of integrating social media into the world of higher education. Because these students are already learning the basics of social media in their core communication classes, I didn’t want to do yet another Social Media 101 type presentation.

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Using Social Media to Reach the Hard-Working Class

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For marketers, these moms don’t represent just a new, sizable consumer segment, they wield a lot of influence within their families and with their friends. They like/follow/subscribe to brands in social media…if there’s a deal involved. They use coupons…a lot. Go where they are. Evolve the coupon.

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How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media

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Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media How to BE a Government Consultant and Use Social Media Wed, Oct 28, 2009 Best Practices , Government 2.0 Be active within the social media and Gov 2.0

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