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Our Industry, Your Answers: Breaking Down the 2018 JOTW Communications Survey

Waxing UnLyrical

According to respondents, 51% say media relations is getting harder to do in today’s environment while about 50% also say social media-related duties are becoming more difficult to do – especially in what is now being viewed as a more “pay-to-play” environment. “It The newsletter is available online at www.nedsjotw.com.

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Praying and piggybacking: Who is Nesamani and why are brands talking about him?

Unmetric

Nesamani is a character played by Tamil actor and comedian Vadivelu in the 2001 film Friends. An innocent reply from the OP (original poster) praying for Nesamani exploded into a social media meme, with users and brands alike pitching in and praying for Nesamani. Social media piggybacking. Who is Nesamani?

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Will ‘Technology’ Survive the Recession?

Atom Thought

Is 2009 worse than 2001? Looking back at 2001, IT spending declined by over 6% after a previous year increase of 16%, that was really a bad hit, and if we compare the same to 2009, we are much better off so far! Not for Social Media Marketing! CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better!

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Big media brands dominated the Web. Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. Meanwhile, US newsroom employment fell to a 25-year low and magazine newsstand sales dropped 63% from of their 2001 peaks. Comcast said it would buy NBC. No one had heard of blogs.

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Manage Your Online Reputation in Multiple Languages

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In addition, a massive 85% of web users would be much more likely to buy a product if the information available was in their native language – so it’s well worth getting your brand out there in more languages than your own. Don’t forget to track your brand mentions and direct feedback in social media spaces, such as Twitter and Facebook.

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Social Pros 23 – DJ Waldow, Waldow Social

Convince & Convert

This is Episode 23 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features DJ Waldow of Waldow Social. Read on for insights from DJ and some social media news from Eric and Jim ( this week : LinkedIn and Twitter break up). Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Opinion , Social Media > Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals by Tamar Weinberg on July 21, 2008 Share This is a guest post from kd kelly.