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Top Five: Tidal Wave of New Social Media Features

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week's must-know news from the world of social media includes new features and functions from Instagram, Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn and Twitter. New reporting tools for Facebook Messenger. Previously, users could report Messenger conversations only through Facebook reporting tools or Messenger web. Follow List.

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Do you need to own your community?

Jeff Esposito

A little while back I was catching up with my friend Jim Storer of the Community Roundtable before we shared a panel about social customer support. In our prep, Jim and I continued our on-going disagreement on whether a company needs to own the platform that they are keeping a community on.

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What’s a social CRM going to do for my business?

Janet Fouts

Some are really a contact management system that allows you to use social media listening strategies to keep tabs on your customer database, while others offer a way to create communities around your products and then your sales and support team can interact with them. As a social media coach I work with a lot of companies.

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The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Convince & Convert

It addresses the need to drive organizational change in an effort to shift employee behavior, communicate more effectively across job functions and geographies and tear down organizational silos. Another example is when marketing departments in other countries want to create a Facebook fan page specifically for their geography.

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Five for Friday 10.29.10

Jeff Esposito

Jenny Zesut of Lithium and I have a great conversation that you won’t want to miss. Debate: Do All Community Managers Need Social Media? Is social media needed to have a community manager? Yes you control the content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., Yes you control the content on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.,

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Heck, I'd even buy a lithium powered weed whacker from him if he endorsed it. If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook. That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social. He was personable and funny, a real likable guy. I'd buy a book from him.

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50 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Insights of 2011 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Tamara Mendelsohn of Eventbrite details five guiding principles for promoting events, including choose the right platform, publish your event to Facebook, and “define success metrics and don’t underestimate the effort required.&#. Cohen describes how GE found success with a private social media community. by iMedia Connection.