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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Many organizations, having now realized that the “build it and they will come” model doesn’t work in social media and that it isn’t just another channel for promoting news releases and marketing brochures, are stepping back and retooling their social media strategies. Identify the key influencers in your market.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

The truth is, many marketing professionals do not know what this software can do, much less what specific companies’ versions can do. This is especially true of the marketing management guys like Buddy, Involver, Vitrue, Wildfire, et al who all hope to be end-to-end solutions. investor), Vocus.

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Five Newsworthy Stories for Your Next Press Release

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Frank Strong of Vocus. To promote his business, he does what good marketers all do well: he’s active on social media, publishes a blog, and contributes content elsewhere. Frank Strong is the director for Vocus , which also owns PRWeb, Help a Reporter out (HARO), iContact and North Social. The lesson?

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

With almost 200 social monitoring tools (and new entrants still coming to market), available at a range of price levels from free to if-you-have-to-ask-you-can’t-afford-it, how does an organization select the right social monitoring tool for its needs? Salesforce.com ), marketing automation tools and web analytics packages.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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The Top #Nifty50 Women in Technology on Twitter for 2012

Webbiquity SMM

This year, we’re pleased to honor 50 women (below) and 50 men (in an upcoming post on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog ) who are among the top social media connectors and engagers in the technology world, representing technology vendors as well as related venture capital (VC), advisory and analyst firms. Stacey Acevero. Cindy Bates.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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