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IBM Social Computing Guidelines

Buzz Marketing for Technology

These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. In 1997, IBM recommended that its employees get out onto the Internet—at a time when many companies were seeking to restrict their employees Internet access.

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How to Save the World

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Our professional value really is a function of the extent of, and our ability to integrate, our knowledge, our thinking competencies, and our communication competencies. Chris put this together a couple of years ago for an IT audience and has since expanded on it, but for me it produced an immediate aha!

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11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

To have credibility, you need to have other people in your field willing and able to testify to your competence. People will expect you to back up your brand with the truth, so when you fail to perform, they immediately begin to question your competence. Rather than stay in your own zone all the time, get out there and meet people.

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10 Best Time Saving Apps and Plugins To Optimize Your Blog

Kikolani

Building a blog that matters is a full-time gig these days, especially if you want to stay ahead of close to 200 million other competing blogs – which you do, right? First off I’d like to say that if you really want a blog that sparkles like a diamond in the blogosphere sea, you need to focus on three things: 1.

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12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year 'Overnight' Success]

ProBlogger

She said she felt she’d never be able to compete. Other blogs in Alice’s niche were running online courses, selling out hundred people live events around the country, selling ads to fortune 500 companies, authoring best selling eBook and more. Having said that, my intent with these events is not to make a lot of money.

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Social Media is Scary - How to Address Junior Employees

Social Media Strategery

Now, anytime anyone in my company searches the terms “social media&# or “Web 2.0″ To everyone who has accurately represented themselves, they can see this as an opportunity to demonstrate their competence. ″ or “blog&# on our Intranet, my name pops up. They will eventually. They will eventually.

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Companies that didnâ??t The investment these companies will make in blogs, social networks, and communities will â??stimulate This tends to create a higher profile for men in the blogosphere because theyre quite literally creating an "old boys network"--right in front of our eyes! A 45% increase in spending on â??software

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