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Tuesday Roundup: Dance Like A Chicken

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Amazingly enough, our fine feathered friends have more to do with social media then you may think. Image: Michael Gäbler [ CC-BY-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons. The Chicken and the Egg Social Media Conundrum. Why: Jay Baer applies the age old question to social media marketing. ” 4.

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Monday Roundup: Blogging Tips from Around the Interwebz

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Image: By Cortega9 (Own work) [ CC-BY-SA-3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons. Where is Chuck Norris and other crucial social media questions. So, in the spirit of education and the public good, here are are five articles that will provide you with blogging tips from optimizing your excerpts to increasing your readership.

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Four Ways Content Writers Can Change the World

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Image: Hownote via Wikimedia Commons, CC 3.0. But writers- and social media practitioners, speakers, and other professional communicators- can often get the point across as well as or better than others. I thrive on it and would perhaps die without it. Leverage content for causes. Explaining causes to people is never easy.

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

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Image: Jonas Bergsten [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. People ask me about social media, SEO, websites, brochures, press releases, speeches, blog writing, PR, message strategies, sales, consulting…everything. I got a reply email 12 hours later, at 4:31 AM that said: Thank you for your quick response. It has scissors.

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The 5 Commandments of How to Raise $1Million on Kickstarter

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Image by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Flickr: Kick-Tipp) [ CC-BY-SA-2.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons. Five years ago, any method of raising capital for a project would generally require a substantial profit share once the product came to fruition. That’s no longer the case.

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What a Duck Can Do For “Social” Media Relations

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I’ve held on to a theory for a while now: Social media and media relations are a paradox. In today’s media landscape both are critical in public relations , but my theory begs the questions: Can the old and the new be blended together, and (bigger question) can one help drive success for the other? Help a Child.”

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Thursday Roundup: Twitter Tips

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Social media platforms will come and go; but I truly believe that if any recent platform has had a dramatic impact on how we communicate, it’s Twitter. Image: Pasquale D’Silva [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Resources Shonali Burke Social Media Twitter twitter tips'

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