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Don’t Squander Your Social Capital

Janet Fouts

Social capital is one of the new buzz words of the decade. Basically it’s a ratio of the size of your network and how much of that network listens to you, trusts you and takes action based on what they’ve read. Those are the ones with social capital. Numbers game. Don’t be that person.

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Twitter’s Biz Stone speaks at CIRA’s AGM

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter is now one of the world’s top three social networks and is used by people from all walks of life from the President of the United States of America, to major Hollywood celebrities, to revolutionaries and freedom fighters around the world to children and senior citizens. Using social media for research: Social Capital 2012.

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Sharing is how you build a Brand

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The #1 question I get about Facebook Marketing (because of my book Facebook Marketing for Dummies) – is what do I do now after I set up my Facebook page for my business? Related posts: Personal Brands RULE on Social Networks On Facebook you can’t be a Friend of a. Why you need to build your Social Capital?

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10 BtoB Marketers Predictions for 2010

Buzz Marketing for Technology

BtoB Marketers should try it out for recruiting or even brand advertising – also don’t forget my book Facebook Marketing for Dummies comes with a credit for $50 Free Facebook ads (thanks to the good folks at Facebook and Wiley for agreeing to publish the book with that credit in it). Social Search could it be a Google Killer?

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

Convince & Convert

Brian recently published his 5th book, The End of Business As Usual. Congratulations on the new book. We just can’t stop you from writing books! was that Engage was more of a reference guide than a book. Jay: One of the things I loved about the book is you talked about how we’re all wired for distraction now.

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How do I get People to Interact and Build Lasting Relationships?

Stay N' Alive

or, “how do I create traffic?&# There’s even a book about it called, “How to win Friends and Influence People.&#. Some call this “Social Capital&# , or “ Whuffies “, being a form of currency for that Capital. It shouldn’t be easy.

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Marketing Marvels – How to Find Influencers with Little Bird

Convince & Convert

If you or someone that you find has curated by hand a really good list of Twitter accounts on a topic, we can just suck that whole list in and we’re going to go out and find those people on social networks too. So I could click out and start checking these people out either on Twitter or other social networks.