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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

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If your or your organization is actively engaging in the social media space, you need to analyze your current budget allocation and either confirm or increase that commitment to social media in your budget planning activities. Identifying The Tools And Resources. The Reality Of Social Media Budget Planning.

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FACE: 4 Traits To Look For When Hiring Your Social Media Community Manager

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Whether the members of those teams were tasked with building and maintaining large corporate Intranets or running social media for Fortune 100 clients, they all required a few common traits to be successful in their efforts. Give Them The Right Resources. Community management is not easy. Sometimes, this makes for a nice fit.

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[Comic] Are You Really ‘Doing’ Social Media?

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Engaging in social media is significantly harder than it sounds. Some believe that social media is free , simply because it generally costs nothing to secure a Facebook page, Twitter handle, and YouTube account. So, you’ve registered all your social media channels, do you know what to do with them?

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Comic: Social Media Strategy From A Book

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Developing a social media strategy isn’t easy, especially with so many channels out there…it sometimes feels like social media overload ! But ignoring social media outright definitely isn’t a good strategy. Have other thoughts on great ways to build your social media strategy?

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Think Twice About Automating Your Social Media Efforts

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I recently participate in an Twitter chat where the conversation turned to whether or not it’s a good idea to automate social media activities. Do you automate your social media activities? I also am not a fan of posting FourSquare updates, quotes from famous people, or trivial content like ASCII twitter art.

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The Secret Formula To Social Media Success (shhh…don’t tell)

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There is no doubt that 2012 is going to be THE year of social media. Hand social media activities over to a junior staff member or intern with no communications experience. Those are all important factors in how NOT to engage in social media. Start a Facebook page just so “we can have a Facebook page.

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2011 Round-Up Of My Social Media Cartoons And Comics

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The biggest category of content that attracted visitors to SocMedSean.com in 2011 was definitely my social media comic strips. In case you missed them, here are links to all my 2011 social media comics in one post. In case you were wondering, my favorite comic that I created this year was The Social Media Kneejerk.