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3 Things You Don’t Know About Social Media Monitoring

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Advanced social media monitoring skills are a critical component of effective social media communications. This is why social media monitoring training is so important. Here are the top 3 reasons why social media monitoring has become riskier than ever: 1. Guest Post by Eric Schwartzman .

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The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing

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I am a social media advocate. But I hate the ugly side of social media sharing; especially when kids are involved. Social media by definition is a space where people share ideas and information. In my opinion, this is what makes social media so beautiful. The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing.

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10 Content Marketing Tricks That Will Help Your Brand Stand Out

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The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. The next time you write marketing copy: Use “you” instead of “we”. Ask questions on social media.

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How Much Listening Does Social Media Listening Really Offer?

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Social media listening. Social media monitoring. Social media tracking. Social media intelligence. There are many descriptions of how we can use social media as a listening tool , to complement (or replace) our more interactive approach where we converse too. Challenge on.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

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But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. Completely. Here’s the interview.

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Five Signs the Future Belongs to User-Generated Content

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In the realm of marketing, learning is the name of the game no matter what your goal is. Rise of the social photobooth and video jukebox. Live event social media generally involves a social media person or standard event-goer using a mobile device to put content online. (in West Bengal!) via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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