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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? Thanks for your help! link] Molly Carter Gaines I'm a little torn between #1 and #3– but my final vote is for #1. I also prefer the overall design to #2/3. A little help for the rest of us.

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MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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JULY 28, 2010

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Myspace also. Myspace also. I have subscribed to your rss feed as well. link] [link] kerala packages really great.enjoyed.thanks [link] CollinCondray.com › 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace [.] link] 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | Collin Condray's WordPress.com Blog [.]

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JUNE 22, 2010

link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Community Managers RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Community Managers RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? Good luck converting the masses !

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

7 Reasons to Subscribe Subscribe via: ( Email / RSS ). 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us This comes as a shock to everyone in the tech crowd, but most people don’t use RSS. Outsourcing Life.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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Almost Savvy

JUNE 18, 2010

While I did not request that my mother authorize access to her accounts, SocialShield did tell me that she has (wait for it…) a MySpace account. My mother, whose 75th birthday is this weekend, is on MySpace? After the laughter subsided, I went to MySpace to search for her. The FAQ section should be much more robust.

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JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. As for email, it’s been declared dead by more pundits, journalists, and entrepreneurs than I care to count. October 2007. March 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. Hope that helps!

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MARCH 22, 2010

[link] [link] Jay Baer You're invited to the Socialpalooza [link] (best social media education opportunity around) [link] Patrick O’Keefe RT @jaybaer: You're invited to the Socialpalooza [link] (best social media education opportunity around) [link] Social Network (RSS) Patrick O'Keefe: RT @jaybaer: You're invited to the Socialpalooza (..)

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AUGUST 3, 2010

I have actually heard this exact sentiment from several companies and agencies recently, wondering whether they should increase their Facebook efforts because the size of the member community is just so overwhelming. If your community is there, then you should be too, and the question is really rhetorical, isn’t it?

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AUGUST 3, 2010

I have actually heard this exact sentiment from several companies and agencies recently, wondering whether they should increase their Facebook efforts because the size of the member community is just so overwhelming. If your community is there, then you should be too, and the question is really rhetorical, isn’t it?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Note that nearly 40% of all subscribers to this blog are via email, not RSS. Katie Morse Community Manager @misskatiemo [link] [link] Katie Morse Jason – great post!

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APRIL 8, 2010

When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), Making wifi available on the NYC commuter bus gives me the option of laptop (convertible Fujitsu tablet) or iPad; iPad gets the nod when I'm not trying to do heavy lifting of spreadsheets, word docs, etc.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. The Better You Are at Twitter, The Worse You Are at Twitter Being a new user on Twitter is as lonely as Michael Boublé at a Green Day concert. What’s Happening?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Facebook and/or MySpace are useful social networks where you can build outposts (see next list). Build RSS outposts on Facebook. Add Flog Blog, and several other RSS tools. Make it easy for your community to reach you.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. What neither of them seems to have is an RSS feed for results, which would be the Holy Grail of Facebook open-graph API monitoring. It's weird on RSS.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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JUNE 28, 2010

This is functionally similar to the Creative Brief that ad agencies have been using for decades to help copywriters and artists understand the psychology of the customer, and what needs to be included in the advertisement.

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