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Where Most Got Social Business All Wrong, Including Me

Convince & Convert

Companies that want to become a social business for the sake of “becoming a social business” doesn’t make sense. Deploying internal communities using software platforms like IBM or Jive just because your competitors are doing so is a complete waste a time, money and resources. There must be positive business outcomes.

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

Social media monitoring tools are increasing essential for companies of all sizes as the explosion of social media content renders manual monitoring efforts hopeless. News can travel extremely fast through social media. And in social media, the whole world can see how fast (or not) your response time is.

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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. Together, these people have been involved in social media as long as anyone else and discovered tactics to help you get the most out of the services.

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103 Compelling Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2013 (and 2014)

Webbiquity SMM

As the use of social media in marketing has become ubiquitous, marketers have turned their attention to making the use of business social media more sophisticated and strategic. How can marketers help their organizations move from “social media marketing” to “social business”?

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your Responsibility as a Blogger There are some social media etiquette rules that people sometimes forget to follow, I suppose. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. But greed is not what this blog post is about. Rule #3: Remember who you are dealing with.

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How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > How to Get an Influencer’s Attention How to Get an Influencer’s Attention by Tamar Weinberg on March 24, 2010 Share Influence is everywhere, but it’s up to you to spot it.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

There seems to be a distinct collection of sessions, parties, and hang-outs for the social media crowd, and then a completely separate collection for developers, entrepreneurs (and of course film attendees). More so than any other event I attend, SXSW is conference roulette. I’ll write about that soon.