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13 Ingredients in the Perfect Social Media Contest

Convince & Convert

But it’s not as easy as just tweeting “who wants to win an ipad!?” This is a place for you to be creative, and most social media contests are far too obvious here (see “win an ipad” above). So, if you sell fishing gear give away fishing gear as a prize, not an ipad. Editorial Calendar.

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13 Ingredients in the Perfect Social Media Contest

Convince & Convert

But it’s not as easy as just tweeting “who wants to win an ipad!?” This is a place for you to be creative, and most social media contests are far too obvious here (see “win an ipad” above). So, if you sell fishing gear give away fishing gear as a prize, not an ipad. Editorial Calendar.

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46 Travel Tools to Optimize Your Next Vacation

Convince & Convert

Vacations do make people happy,” says Mr. Nawijn, tourism research lecturer at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. “But Flight Tracker – Only free flight tracking/flight status app (iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows). iPad, iPhone and iTouch). iPhone, iPad). Web, iPhone, iPad).

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The Case for Active Users as Social Media Community Managers

Akamai Marketing

Here’s another example, during the recent tsunami warning in Hawaii, only one travel and tourism brand was active in the discussion: Starwood Hawaii . Travel and tourism in our state’s largest industry. I wouldn’t say their activity was massive, but at least there was a presence. Why was this?

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Weekly Roundup: The New Year Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Why: great reading material for your professional library and/or iPad/Kindle. Five trends all marketers should watch in social media in 2011 , by Matt Rhodes on FreshNetworks. Why: smart stuff mixed with commonsense. My books of the year , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Why I Did Not Freak Out Over My Stolen iPhone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

. :-) Another reader emailed me a link to an iPhone/iPad app that lets you install the “Find My Phone&# functionality on another mobile device. Check out the Find My Phone app for iPhone and iPad. So, if Shane had had that app on his iPhone, we could have started tracking the thieves as soon as we discovered the smashed window!

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Online Videos 101: Keep It Simple, Stupid

Waxing UnLyrical

landmarks, show JHU students holding an iPad displaying a single word describing a key attribute of the JHU program. Each person would say aloud the word on the iPad screen, and just in case it was inaudible, we recorded our voices on iPhone’s voice memo app to be dubbed later in editing. And of course, it worked.

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