Justin Levy

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

When we need photos we head over to Flickr. However, whenever I conduct social media training sessions for groups of professionals, the platform that they always request we spend the time most time on is LinkedIn. Are you taking time to explore Groups and Answers? Find relevant Groups to join and begin participating in them.

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Adam Cohen

APRIL 12, 2012

Several weeks ago, LinkedIn launched the LinkedIn Follow Button allowing followers to follow a company page on LinkedIn directly from owned assets like web pages and blogs. This week LinkedIn launched two new products that allow companies to more effectively engage the followers they have. Photo credit: tj scenes via Flickr.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 11, 2013

Really, that’s what any good company does; cut the dead weight. If social media, and the Internet experience in general, is founded on groups, other people, and relationships, why are we still depending on ourselves to find all the news that’s relevant to us? Image: warrantedarrest via Flickr CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 22, 2012

Clearly, the experiment of Facebook as a publicly traded company isn’t going well, though I think it is still too early to be called a failure. How ironic, then, that I believe taking the company private again will benefit it in the long term. I don’t think the company itself is going anywhere. That’s the key.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I was invited to speak on social media in the Enterprise by Cadre eLearning to a group of corporate training people. The diagrams I used are on Flickr. Here are the slides for them. Training departments and social media. View more presentations from Laurel Papworth.

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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2010

With Mark Zuckerberg being named the Time Person of the Year for 2010, you would think that there would be a little more thought that goes into the company's approach to privacy, major UI changes, and how those are communicated to the very people those changes affect. He managed to leave the group , but not before the damage was done.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Netflix announced yesterday that it would end Qwikster, the company it spawned last month to handle its mail-order DVD service from its streaming service (splitting those apart happened over the summer). Image: Laura Fries.com via Flickr, CC 2.0. As you might imagine, there was a hearty round of, “I told you so!”,

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 5, 2013

Image: phunkstarr via Flickr, CC 2.0. Whether you are a manager, an entrepreneur, a solo PR pro, a 20-something worker who is a cog in the machine at this point in her career, or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you are well served to always consider others thoughts. Both authors are dismissive about the opposing point of view.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 8, 2012

This varies from audience to audience, and even group to group. So they lose out on all the search traffic to the companies that keep up with what the audience talks about. You can’t just create content in a vacuum, or curate it for a group of people who don’t care. What subjects do they want to learn about?

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2012

With more than 90% of companies now using social media to find employees and 82% having a Facebook page , there’s no question that business use of social media has become commonplace. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 30, 2007

Did a bit of research, read some e-mails in my discussion group, talked to a couple of net experts ( not geeks but domain pros). After some brain-storming I discovered a kool webhosting company called Velnetweb which seems to be one stop shop for all web hosting needs. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest all expanded their footprint across several demographic groups. We’ve passed the point where social media is a revolution, and chances are most companies have some sort of social effort underway. photo credit: Evan via flickr. 71% of internet users are on Facebook.

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Adam Cohen

JANUARY 13, 2015

Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest all expanded their footprint across several demographic groups. We’ve passed the point where social media is a revolution, and chances are most companies have some sort of social effort underway. photo credit: Evan via flickr. 71% of internet users are on Facebook.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Not every company needs a blog. YouTube worked for BlendTec, but it might not work for your company. Help companies participate in existing social networks, and build relationships on their turf. Check out Twitter as a way to show a company’s personality. Social media isn’t always the right tool for the job.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 5, 2012

Bernays , arguably the “father of Public Relations” and someone I am known to cite a lot, saw the profession as very much a science, reflecting his own upbringing in the company of his “household name” uncle, Sigmund Freud. Image: Joel Ormsby via Flickr CC 2.0. Couldn’t say it better myself!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, bloggers that your company works with consistently over several campaigns. It was the show’s core group of friends who were actually ambassadors for each other throughout middle school, high school and the college years. The keys are: To find the right balance between the two groups. Think raving fans.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 3, 2011

With the explosion of social media over the past few years, more and more companies are hiring…well, someone to manage social media. Likewise, a lot of job seekers who want to “do&# social media for a company are thinking that they want to go into community management. via Flickr, CC 2.0. Please share via a comment!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Image: twchoi11 via Flickr , Creative Commons Though I wouldn’t consider myself as devoted as some fan clubs. In August, fans of G-Dragon – a member of Korean hip hop group, Big Bang – fund-raised over $18,000 for Seoul University Children’s Hospital, in honor of his birthday.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Image: Optiscanapp via Flickr, CC 2.0. Very few of the groups representing tech industries were using them. It is also a great option for groups who don’t have the budget to redesign their display banners. Many of the groups were providing QR codes with links to non-mobile sites. Here is what we found out: 1.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 14, 2010

4) The Social Media Group this past week rolled out the “ Social Media RFP , which is essentially a working document on what companies of all sizes should be looking for when hiring a social media consultant or firm. But nevertheless, he tweeted out this List of Social Media KPI’s on Flickr. which is invaluable.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

It happens in all industries, but lately I’ve seen retail companies keep their “Consumer Insight&# group focused on traditional insight like mall traffic patterns and planograms. But those same companies need to leverage, not ignore, that insight available when fusing social media into the marketing mix they already have.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2013

Image: TheNextWeb via Flickr, CC 2.0. A lot of companies still only share their own content on Twitter. Retweeting what other people have said about their own companies (or about them personally) ad nauseam. Where Twitter for PR usually begins… and ends. It’s not that people are not already using Twitter for PR.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 29, 2015

Your company culture matters , and how you communicate within the workplace is a vital piece of the puzzle when putting it all together. Constant feedback is preferred; it is said, “don’t beat around the bush, get to the point with this group.” Take a class or join a local Toastmasters group. Is it external?

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Social Media Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As someone who works for a large company, I'm accustomed to seeing tweets, blog posts, videos, photos and even entire sites built to convey a strong reaction. Last week, Aaron Strout ( @AaronStrout ) approached a group of bloggers with the notion that we should create haikus of brand experiences we've had. Feel free to share it below.

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Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Orkut is reminiscent of the early versions of Facebook, meaning that the site is mainly for connecting with other users and participate in online groups. The service allowed users to publicly share postings from other Google products such as YouTube and Blogger and non-Google ones such as Twitter and Flickr. Google Buzz.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

is the ability to monitor and post to Facebook Groups directly from HootSuite: Now, typically I like to work Facebook “in” Facebook, as it were, but I know plenty of people who’d rather do all their Facebook management from a third-party app. You can give posting rights to a team for group posting, which is terrific!

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Twist Image

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Someone I know was concerned about registering for a website because they were worried about what the company might do with their email address. This same person has been publishing pictures of their young family to Facebook and Flickr forever, for all to see. Be careful of groups you join. They're not. They're not. breadcrumbs.

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Adam Cohen

APRIL 12, 2012

Several weeks ago, LinkedIn launched the LinkedIn Follow Button allowing followers to follow a company page on LinkedIn directly from owned assets like web pages and blogs. This week LinkedIn launched two new products that allow companies to more effectively engage the trends in recruitment with the followers they have.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

Your children hang out in communities, both online and offline, and all of those communities have their own sets of things to do, their own sub cultures and their own cliques; and within those groups there is as well, unwritten rules and what not. Share images on Flickr. Upload music and comment on the music. Upload an audio podcast.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2012

You joined a LinkedIn group or attended a networking event. For those industries, the first company to start doing social media marketing is going to be the company who dominates that industry online. Photo credit: Kellogg Community College (Flickr, Creative Commons). You started blogging once a week.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 6, 2012

It wasn’t a link to a “Join me at New Social Group.” The smart professional’s website was packed full of evidence of what the company was capable of, and the blog offered more proof of industry knowledge and practical experience. Photo credit: Nicola Corboy , courtesy Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2010

This is where you seek out activity on social media that isn’t directed to you or your company and you engage with this information. Join relevant groups and sign up for email notification from these groups. Search Squidoo , Slide Share , Flickr , YouTube ….find Pro-active engagement is a little more of an art.

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Almost Savvy

JANUARY 4, 2011

Remember how excited you were when you learned that you could connect your Flickr account to Facebook so that all of your photos could easily be uploaded and shared with your friends? Related articles which may interest you: Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch?

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 29, 2015

Do you live by the sea in a surf-community such as the Boys to Men group in San Diego? If you have a strong group of motivated participants, perhaps a crowdfunding event is the right choice. Remember there is “value” shared from every group participating. Image: Bruce McKay via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

When I saw how Kogi BBQ in California used Twitter; to leverage it as a resource to connect with people in a meaningful way , to communicate in real time their location or what was going on with their company. Image: sherrymain via Flickr, CC 2.0. Image: miamism via Flickr, CC 2.0. Lesson: An integrated approach is key.

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The Marketing Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

53 pm Preventing Social Media Spam Jump to Comments Image by Josh Russell via Flickr Sometimes it feels really sorry to see the tactics of a select group of folks in the name of using Social media as a Conversation Medium ! Home About In the Media Enterprise 2.0 Conversations Facebook will surge ahead in India February 4, 2010.8:53

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 5, 2011

Which one I use depends on the company I’m in. Image: Pattyequalsawesome via Flickr, CC 2.0. I’ve already told you about the informal learning group that was resurrected for employees. Image: Stéfan via Flickr, CC 2.0. No one tells you. how fast things will move once leadership is on board with social media.

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