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How To Start A Blog In 2012

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While we do live in a world of RSS feeds and links tossed around via Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the best Blogs are designed well. WordPress makes this (somewhat) easier because you can buy and customize themes. No point in spending the money if you're not generating readership and/or going to stick with it. Design matters.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

I walked them through how to use both RSS feeds and del.icio.us , and showed them how they could use simply tag their relevant media coverage using whatever tags and descriptions made sense to them. They could then create an RSS feed for those tags that is placed onto their internal Intranet site. Add RSS feeds to your website.

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Tired of All-Hands Meetings? Try an INTERNAL Unconference

Social Media Strategery

Does your organization have an internal microblogging service (Twitter is most likely too public for most)? bwe08 101 bah best practices blog boozallen booz allen buy-in change management communications community conference DC DHS E20 education enterprise 2.0 Managing Your Time While Managing Your Social Media My Gov 2.0

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

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Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’d love to befriend everyone or even specify groups of friends to which I’d subscribe so that I can get updates delivered to my RSS reader (versus other updates that I would check on a more infrequent basis), though for the time being, the team has not worked that out. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed. If you don’t mind.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Do they take the action you want them to like signup for your rss, email subscribe or buy from you? It would be interesting to see ROI and conversion rates for SU traffic specially from people buying SU traffic. One further question is do these visitors convert?

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6 Things Parenthood Taught Me About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Sometimes I see your postings first in my RSS reader, sometimes in Buzz. Reply Jon Christensen June 10, 2010 at 12:15 pm Like so many others, I loved this post too. Sorry for commenting earlier only on Buzz, but I hope you don’t turn off your blog posting to Buzz. It just depends on where I go first, but I always enjoy your posts.