Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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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

5 New Year’s resolutions for your small business , by Thursday Bram at Grow Smart Business. My books of the year , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies. Why: great reading material for your professional library and/or iPad/Kindle. Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5

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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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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Let your community see the whole Alice, even with your idiosyncrasies (how DO you keep your hair perfect on this grand adventure?). As your community learns to trust YOU, they’ll see that you’re real and no Cheshire Cat, this will make relationships easier to develop. Who can trust that crazy cat? Tell your story.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Blogger outreach does not need to take a significant chunk of time and can translate to long-lasting relationships that can really benefit your business or your clients. If you are going down the free route, use Google Blog Search, Technorati, and blogrolls to find relevant blogs. Many are not patient enough to wait that long.

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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? Listening, Talking, energizing, supporting and embracing).

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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? Listening, Talking, energizing, supporting and embracing).

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 28, 2009

It was really an impulsive decision but I stuck with it so far and I am beginning to reap the rewards of managing a local blog for the community. The community that has been built continues to surprise me. I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. I setup a Twitter account almost immediately when I started the blog.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. Get the Community Involved One of the best things I did when I started a local blog was reach out to local businesses that I frequented. town and city. I do this for free.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

On a more complex level having a full blog platform like WordPress helps with SEO and a hundred other things. But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. WordPress Blog I believe that any companies social media presence hinges on a blog of some kind.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Dear Ma.gnolia Community Members or Visitor, Early on the West-coast morning of Friday, January 31st, Ma.gnolia experienced every web service’s worst nightmare: data corruption and loss. Most importantly, I apologize to all of you who have made Ma.gnolia a home for your bookmarks and community. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

Once a dormant social site that I used only for aggregating my rss feeds has now become a full fledged community. There wasn’t a whole lot of activity from other people and it looked like most people did the same as me. Set it and forget it. Looks like things are changing though. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Small Business Websites Need Directory Links ¬ Twitoria Highlights Inactive Twitter Followers #3464 March 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm [.] Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 You like to hear yourself talk. Ryan Martin’s last blog post.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 25, 2009

You might be a thought leader in your community. Small Business Websites Need Directory Links ¬ Twitoria Highlights Inactive Twitter Followers #3464 March 3rd, 2009 at 2:48 pm [.] Either that or you follow your Mom and she follows you. A ratio of 2.0 You like to hear yourself talk. Ryan Martin’s last blog post.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

And more important, are you SHARING other people’s status updates with your community? Social is great, but I dont want to limit myself there when there may be a pool of small businesses right outside more door. Im making time to attend more meetings, go to small business groups and TweetUps, to network in PERSON.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

On a more complex level having a full blog platform like WordPress helps with SEO and a hundred other things. But I don’t need that to get the blog becoming the central hub for the community, which is the plan. WordPress Blog I believe that any companies social media presence hinges on a blog of some kind.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

We help people in need share their “epic&# true stories in innovative, creative and profitable ways to help them acquire the financial resources they need to create positive “change&# in their communities. I understand that many people think “We need schools and money for things in America.&#. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. There are MANY other sites like these and I have gotten great results from a lot of them. These are the two places I got my start. town and city. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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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. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Why local blogging is important I recently wrote about a new blog I started called the Mayor of Concord.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

link] – This Contra Costa Times is my local newspaper and though they have a pretty low level community platform on their website someone thought far enough ahead to set up a Twitter profile. This is because CNN has mastered the art of sending updates about any news that comes across their desk. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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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 writer André Gensburger who is also the co-publisher for the paper first entertained the idea of talking with me a few months ago. The topic of the article was to talk about how I have adjusted post Iraq. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

While writing that post, I started getting more involved with the StumbleUpon community and started looking through other peoples profiles for great sites I had never come across. Much love for the StumbleUpon community Many people on StumbleUpon do not blog anywhere else and use StumbleUpon as their primary micro blog of sorts.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Here are some of my favorite social Archives Categories Blogroll October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 January 2010 December 2009 October 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 Notice : wp_list_cats is deprecated since version 2.1! Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? Are you hoping to help along your SEO efforts? Make each post remarkable and SEO friendly.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

Blacksmith2 of the StumbleUpon community discovered my post and added it to his favorites. 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

JANUARY 8, 2009

Once you start getting more involved with the Twitter you will see that it is really a community of people that just want to give constant updates to people that are following them. Twitter Etiquette As any community will tell you, there are unspoken rules of etiquette that you should follow. coverage here. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Business Education Learning to run your own business can be a trying experience, but you can get a little help and advice for free from the Small Business Administration. Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

Maybe you start by reading the blogs listed on my blogroll at the right – don’t look at it as some massive overwhelming pit of endless information. Maybe you start by reading the blogs listed on my blogroll at the right – don’t look at it as some massive overwhelming pit of endless information.

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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. Use get_bookmarks() instead.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Business Education Learning to run your own business can be a trying experience, but you can get a little help and advice for free from the Small Business Administration. Concerts, Movies and Shows Many communities offer a wide variety of free entertainment through local park districts and organizations.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility. 6??????????

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