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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

Hootsuite

We put the question to our LinkedIn community and based on the responses one thing is clear: There’s a lot of people out there who don’t know what social media marketers do. Sometimes they run companies and only sort of understand the role social media can play for their business. WhatsApp: 2009. Pinterest: December 2009.

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% a year ago to 30% of CRS bookings in Q3 2009 (eTRAK). No wonder that according to the recent Business.com’s 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study, 83% of U.S. PR in Global Economic Crunch (1).

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Now hear this: No one ever joined Facebook or Twitter so they could follow a brand or a company. What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What do you have to offer?

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Dan’s company gets it: the most recent blog post is featured on the home page. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter?

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Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers.

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

Waxing UnLyrical

- Combining creative ability and optimization skills to create compelling, keyword relevant press releases will only prove to be a rewarding public relations effort for your company. Im looking forward to reading more of your posts! Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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