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Apple: A Case Study in Why Brands Should Control Their Stories

Waxing UnLyrical

It is very rare that social media is used to propel or hurt brands in significant business-altering ways. And brands should prepare for such an eventuality with an integrated public relations/social media strategy. One brand has benefited for years from this lack of control. Then, the Apple iPhone 4S underwhelmed.

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Check-in on Product Discussion and Get Rewarded on German Rating Site

Mindjumpers

“The Chicken” is a German website based in Berlin and it applies a Foursquare model to product and brand discussions. In addition, a rating system lets the users score brands and products and they have the possibility of leaving comments as well. Beneficial for both customers and brand. The Blogosphere is Thriving.

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing > 11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands 11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands by Tamar Weinberg on October 7, 2010 Share This is a guest post from James Adams.

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Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics

ProBlogger

If you do make your own infographics, rather than keeping them solely for yourself, use them as an opportunity to spread your blog’s brand by tagging them with your logo and allowing them to be embedded around the web, preferably with an embed code that leads back to your site. Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics. Get interactive.

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Blogosphere Trends + Guest Posting

ProBlogger

As Chris Garrett said in a ProBlogger guest post from 2008: “If you are going to be snarky, damage your own brand.” Don’t go overboard and make the entire guest post about you and your brand. Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator.com and Regator for iPhone as well as an award-winning print journalist. Share This.

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Content Aggregation: The Future of (B2B and Consumer) Media?

Webbiquity SMM

Meanwhile, the blogosphere continues to expand and pundits like Joe Pulizzi have declared that we are all publishers now. While the use of such technologies is limited only by the imagination, there are three types of entities that could clearly benefit from content aggregation tools: large brands/companies, online publishers and PR firms.

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Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts

ProBlogger

Here are the top ten most-blogged-about stories of the week, as provided by Regator , and some examples of well-formatted but lengthy posts about each: LeBron James ­– “ Did LeBron James Really Hurt His Brand? ” Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator.com and Regator for iPhone as well as an award-winning print journalist.