Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Bing, Nielsen recently reported , received nearly 14 percent of search traffic in August 2010. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , Marketing | Tags: google instant , nonprofits , search engines , SEO | Comments (9) Site settings comment help? received 13 percent. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

The CMO is the one managing brand perception, and if you believe social media initiatives impact branding, marketing or communications, the CMO will want to hear about it. Do your customers have a need for community, convenience, or collaboration? The CMO will also want to know the data.

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Saying It Social

JULY 22, 2010

The advice that gets the most votes by 5pm ET on July 23rd wins an iPad and more importantly to me, some pretty nice recognition in the social media community. « Previous | Next » About Saying It Social, LLC provides Social Media Marketing & Local SEO Services for Franchisees & other Small Businesses.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 2, 2011

Be a social business: PR trends in 2011 , from Sally Falkow’s The Proactive Report. Why: public relations measurement really isn’t tough. Don explains why (and how to do this right). Why: social media has become the touch point by which many business functions converge. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I thought Richard’s report of his experiment was fascinating. Chipotle mishap highlights importance of clear communication with customers , by Becca Caddy for Reputation Online. What is the best SEO secret you know? An hour of tweeting dangerously , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies. I thought this was a good primer.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Be sure to build trust by adding value to the community consistently over time.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

You can use Donor Tools to track donations and donor profiles, create communications with donors, and tag contacts and communications for organization and reports. For large organizations that need custom functionality and advanced reporting, this system won’t cut it. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Image: Geoff LMV via Flickr , Creative Commons These included sentences like On what Pepco’s crisis communication plan is: “Pepco takes its responsibility to keep customers informed seriously. Our crisis communications plan consist of pre-event, event, and post-event reporting guidelines and information.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The small community of readers I have built up and learned from would shun me, rightly perhaps. That said, Id be surprised if everytime GM brought reporters to the Champs Elysee to test their formerly crappy cars the reviews were universally positive. Thanks for sharing the post with your #pr20chat community. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Lindsay Allen is a veteran communicator whose love of words began at an early age. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, an executive speechwriter, and a media relations professional. Currently, she is an editor and writer for AGP & Associates , an integrated marketing communications firm in Midland, Mich.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

Our community was now creating the bulk of our content. But I’m happy to report that so far *knock on wood* I’ve yet to have any problems. Previous to this she was the managing editor of U of R Report, the University’s faculty and staff internal publication and a print journalist in Manitoba. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Since nothing was being reported at the time, I took to Twitter to see if anyone else knew what was going on. Image: Lorenz Seidler via Flickr , Creative Commons I was distraught when I got a Facebook IM from one of my friends in Mumbai, telling me of the first bomb blast. media started broadcasting the story). Read All About It!

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Computer Explorers – provides technology education to children ages 3 and up at childcare centers, preschools, private and public schools and community centers. « Previous | Next » About Saying It Social, LLC provides Social Media Marketing & Local SEO Services for Franchisees & other Small Businesses.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Or “Turn your articles into downloadable reports/ebooks.&# This cultivates a thinking community where information is evaluated, and then adapted and built upon. While there are plenty of other posts on TheWWWObserver and Lifehack that do provide me with value, the two I highlighted above only provide me with directions.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There’s no way – no way – I would have felt so much a part of that community if I hadn’t previously connected with many of the folks I meet IRL on social media. To explore a different communication channel? To try to connect with those who might become part of a community? Is there any ROI?

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It really is a community. I think what delights me most about Amplify is that there really is a community sense to it. Ive only been active for a few weeks but find it is still a community that fosters interactions amongst a wide assortment of individuals who bring different backgrounds and experiences to share with one another.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

And when I looked at some of the comments on reports of the campaign, that seemed to be a frequently-expressed sentiment, like this one on PopWatch: Hmm. Those are the kind of campaigns that raise awareness and build community -- and you nailed the importance of community for nonprofits. Makes sense to me. Read All About It!

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Top Ten Reasons for Building an Online Community in 2009 From Vovici: If you don’t currently have an online community, and you are not thinking of building an online community next year, you should be. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

This caused such an outcry by the Facebook community that several groups formed almost immediately calling for Facebook to change their terms of service back to normal. This didn’t seem to be enough for the community and the people kept complaining. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

He said my background would be something interesting that the community may want to read about. The last time I was interviewed by the media for Iraq was after coming home and talking to reporters that had read my Last Letter From Iraq. It made its way onto a reporters desk and then the requests to talk started.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. It’s completely focused on the city and community. Some of the readers listen to police scanners and report on the crime. Starting a local blog is not for the faint of heart.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

Blacksmith2 of the StumbleUpon community discovered my post and added it to his favorites. report this one? I glad you liked my SEO Divas port! So I found a geeky picture to add to the post and put it up. I specifically put the post in a low level category of my site thinking it was not worth any attention at all. I was wrong.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Using MyBlogLog To Expand Your Community Quality vs. Quantity in Social Networking Why I Twitter (And Why You Should Too) The 4 Elements of Getting Videos to go Viral Using Social Media to Meet People How to Run a Successful Competition on Your Blog Defenition of Viral Marketing and Success Stories. It can be time consuming and confusing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Traditional and social media monitoring vendors often report the quality of their sentiment analysis in terms of “accuracy;” that is, the percentage of stories or posts that the tool’s algorithm and a human reader agree on. Vendors often report “accuracy” percentages around the 70%-90% range, but these numbers are deceptively high.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

If you want more than a hope in hell of being a possible source for an article, you have to reel the reporter in. Put the reporter in touch with 3rd party - who seemed willing - directly so they could match schedules, repeatedly asked to be in loop. No one gets the reporter contact info until/unless I set it up.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my previous position as the managing editor of the University’s internal publication, I spent a lot of time (and still do) interviewing members of the campus community (faculty, staff, students, alumni, community partners, etc.). You can’t start a blog like ours unless the community wants it. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

The strange thing is, this email asks the shopper to report violations of Etsy’s DO’s and DON’Ts, which was what I thought she was doing by emailing them in the first place? Join the Grymm & Epic community for creative entrepreneurs, or read her heavy metal blog on Steff Metal. Image: striatic via Flickr, CC 2.0 Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

His students produced about 15 fabulous measurement reports to non-profits. SAS provides all of its tools free to universities [link] -- and there is no better analytical tool on the marketplace. KDPaine & Partners provides its tool free to qualified courses -- just ask Craig Carroll at UNC. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Recent reports show it has skyrocketed in past years which is VERY scary and sad. However, when one looks further at the numbers, its skyrocketing because more women are reporting domestic violence. There’s a lot of data out there and I am aware that these are just a few tiny pieces. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

is the death of PR: it has pushed forward the belief that anyone can do PR, that social media can be done with anyone with a Twitter account and who claims community. Bringing Open Community To Public Relations | Waxing UnLyrical says: November 22, 2010 at 5:01 am [.] Mark as read Approve comment My great unwritten post is that PR 2.0

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Viper Chill

MARCH 4, 2010

You are here: ViperChill » SEO » How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google Written by Glen, this post has 160 Comments Without a doubt, the most frequent post request I’ve had on this site is a post about link building. Home What the F ? Cloud Living Say "Hi!"

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