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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Change your Twitter avatar to be Santa Claus.

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11 Sure-Fire Ways to Get Me to Unfollow You on Twitter

Almost Savvy

Yeah, I don’t really know what you’re wearing, or not, when you’re actually tweeting, but please put some clothes on that avatar. You have the default Twitter avatar or are using a photo of your dog. You talk about yourself endlessly. You don’t get that authenticity is a key component of social media success.

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How Not to Use Twitter for Business (FroYo Edition) | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

In fact, the net result is that the business comes off looking disconnected and less interested in their community than they are in hawking their wares. It seems like the cool thing to do, sure, but does that make it smart? In short, no. Bad form all around. Spammy posts are all about them. No @ replies, no engagement. (Or

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Micro Persuasion: Three Little Tips for Capturing Info Bits Quickly

Buzz Marketing for Technology

links for 2008-06-22 » Saturday, June 21, 2008. Posted by: Eric | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 06:05 PM. Posted by: William | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 07:40 PM. Posted by: Tom | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 07:53 PM. Posted by: Prashant | Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 09:02 PM. April 2008.

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Taylor Marek

This held a small community of vibrant people that quite literally can shake the world upside down and rightside up again. Then I attended New Media Expo 2008. I want to bring you into this vibrant community and open your eyes. I looked into it and knew in a heartbeat that THIS is where I wanted to stake my flag. What was it?

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Twitter is Dead Pls RT

Taylor Marek

I remember back in the early stages of twitter how much fun it was… It was a tight-knit community of like-minded people openly sharing ideas and links across the internet. Now I have to sift through untold thousands of twitter spam accounts and spam tweets and spam direct messages to communicate with my audience and friends.

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Are You a Productive Reader? - Stepcase Lifehack

Buzz Marketing for Technology

COMMUNICATION. Enter your email address: May 23rd, 2008 in Productivity. links for 2008-05-25 at DeStructUred Blog. Jamie says on May 23rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm. Lorie Marrero says on May 23rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm. Ann says on May 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm. Farfield says on May 24th, 2008 at 5:07 pm. TECHNOLOGY.

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