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Influencers- Friend or Stranger?

Laurel Papworth

When it comes to social media and the influencer who wins – those you know but aren’t experts or those you don’t know who are? Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends.

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Twitter: how to find lists and followers based on bio

Laurel Papworth

Want to find and follow social media lists that influencers in the online community have curated? A list is a list – doesn’t tell you quality or influence or quantity or sentiment – but it’s a start. Twitter: Reputation Management in Social Networks (20). Read on… Listorious holds the key.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Do study your influencers Want to reach out to influencers ? Thing is, some people don’t really reach out correctly to influencers. Influencer outreach may possibly be the most powerful outreach tactic that PR practitioners or marketers are laziest about. Just do it head first, not with one foot.

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Why Social Media Is Like Getting Stoned

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

People who use social media correctly tend to exhibit some of the more overt characteristics of people chemically influenced (and those who use social media badly exhibit either characteristics of teetotalers or people over-chemically influenced). I have much to accomplish and certainly wouldn’t want to be stoned. ;P

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Enterprise 2.0: social scorecard and social media karma

Laurel Papworth

Taking Badges Further: I use incentives to reward influencers in my online communities in three ways: Points for repetitive, ongoing and countable activity. Social standing, trust, reputation and leadership. were researching “ Do incentive systems, such as points and status labels, influence the behavior of employees?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. Influencers. Influencer Marketing: An Oxymoron?

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5 Things True Social Media Experts Do Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Because of the less serious checklists that are being passed around the web right now, I thought it would be a good time to look at what some of the influencers online are really doing, and how you can join their ranks if you’re so inclined. Highlight Others Do you ever read the tweets of Chris Brogan?