Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Since I work with a lot of agencies all over the world, the content in this post was very personal and visceral. A terrific, relevant guest post from my friend Katie Van Domelan (now the client services manager at Cotweet – one of my clients). I’m doing more of that now, and I like it. This one was from the heart.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. And make sure to atomize your content , taking one idea and propagating it in as many places and formats as possible, each reaching a different audience. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels. When I personally want to engage with a company/professional, I typically follow on Twitter, sometimes Facebook at a later date (if I love their content), then ultimately email updates if available. LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

High quality and never a lack of content to pull from, Flickr is awesome. One of the reasons I love Flickr is it’s an online photo diary of people. There are so many great pictures to browse through. In many of my posts, I am using pictures from people on Flickr. Here are some of my Flickr favorites.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

High quality and never a lack of content to pull from, Flickr is awesome. One of the reasons I love Flickr is it’s an online photo diary of people. There are so many great pictures to browse through. In many of my posts, I am using pictures from people on Flickr. Here are some of my Flickr favorites.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 3, 2008

MassivePress is a 3 column widget enabled WordPress theme featuring a thumbnail based posting style which gives you the ability to get more content in front of your users in a way that is clean and organized. The truth is, the MassivePress theme is one of the slickest I have come across in a while.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 3, 2008

MassivePress is a 3 column widget enabled WordPress theme featuring a thumbnail based posting style which gives you the ability to get more content in front of your users in a way that is clean and organized. The truth is, the MassivePress theme is one of the slickest I have come across in a while.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Our Web-based tools help bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers promote, deliver and profit from their content on the Web. FeedBurner also offers the largest feed and blog advertising network that brings together an unprecedented caliber of content aggregated from the world’s most recognized media companies (e.g.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 26, 2010

I haven’t updated it in a while but the content is still very relevant. Nothing I was hosting is as large as my blog so I can’t imagine such a painful process. The next site I wanted to move all on my own was HyperLocal Edge. For the most part its a dormant site.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 13, 2010

If you are in the Boston area or will be next Thursday night, be sure to check out the CoTweetup with the folks from CoTweet. Unlike many of the other pieces beating the dead horse, this one goes into the science of influence and sharing content. 13 ways to find your blog inspiration – Ever hit a brick wall or lose your muse?

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The new Facebook TOS was explained on the Consumerist and it was scary to read how the Facebook terms would allow them to hold account details forever and any content from your profile was owned by Facebook and was open for redistribution at will. Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Blogs 6 Ways to Make Better Friends on StumbleUpon : OldSchool SEO 5 Steps to Write Effective Articles in Less Time 7 Questions To Ask If You Want To Solve a Problem SEO Tip: Almost 7 Ways To Re-Optimize Your Posts A Complete Guide to Finding and Using Incredible Flickr Images 5 Steps to Write Effective Articles in Less Time Moving from WordPress.com (..)

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Mostly from pushing the blog content out on the other social media platforms. I started a company blog on WordPress.com. since the company did not have a blog set up, this was the quickest way to be up and running with hardly any resources.I started off with just a few hundred hits a day.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

Dear Koka Sexton, Video Disabled A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video 101st Airborne Iraq. The audio content identified in your video is In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

Dear Koka Sexton, Video Disabled A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video 101st Airborne Iraq. The audio content identified in your video is In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Major online news sites use BlogBurst to fill the void with user generated content. For example I wanted to be “THE&# site that comes up anytime someone googles Mayor of Concord. I have a few others but I’ll save them for the next review. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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Koka Sexton

JUNE 22, 2008

Carell’s first hit, Bruce Almighty , is banned in Egypt for content that is deemed “sacrilegious.&# One of his buddies was a young comedian named Stephen Colbert, who later recommended him for The Daily Show. He’s the king of the remake.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

For product documents there is a much tighter timeline and content focus that needs to be covered. and Pepsi are doing and figure Paragon could get into the user content arena also. Writing product documentation is not as easy as writing a blog post about a shiny new desk or Twitter tips 101.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

For product documents there is a much tighter timeline and content focus that needs to be covered. and Pepsi are doing and figure Paragon could get into the user content arena also. Writing product documentation is not as easy as writing a blog post about a shiny new desk or Twitter tips 101.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Mostly from pushing the blog content out on the other social media platforms. I started a company blog on WordPress.com. since the company did not have a blog set up, this was the quickest way to be up and running with hardly any resources.I started off with just a few hundred hits a day.

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Jeff Esposito

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

From there it is about keeping lines of communication open and pumping out great content. For example, CoTweet recently put out a research report, Twitter X-Factors , which showed some pretty interesting numbers when comparing regular Twitters users to all other consumers. Sounds easy right?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction. Who is responsible for adding content? Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 22, 2008

I’ve been reading sites like Super Blogging and DoshDosh and been looking for a way to get my blog posts noticed but is there really a science to it when a random post gets all of the attention when more content rich articles like Everything you ever need to know about Twitter gets so little? Thanks and keep up with the great content.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 29, 2008

I then dug a bit deeper into the internet and found a few local Concord blogs that actually surprised me with the amount of content. I have an account but I rarely use it for anything more than accepting friend requests from people that I know.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? We can now associate a tremendous amount of data to individuals.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Twitter) and social content sharing sites. Polaris is a slick, free Adobe Air-based desktop tool that displays eight GA charts at a glance, including the dashboard, traffic sources, top content, keywords and goal values. Monitoring can be filtered by location as well. Now there’s no need to log in to GA just for a simple check.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Once you select your criteria, Formulists instantly creates the list for you, and you can then view it from Twitter.com, Twitter on a mobile device, or any Twitter client such as CoTweet (client) , Hootsuite, and the rest. This tool combines search optimization with recommended content functionality.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Entrepreneurs: blogging requires committment – are you ready to dedicate time to content, distribution, interaction, and metrics to have a successful blog. The importance of a content marketing playground – creating a stage where no one is watching to build up your creativity.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. Really, what is social media from the brand perspective but email 2.0?

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Kikolani

MAY 21, 2010

Why in-content links are more powerful. 17 free content management systems. Managing multiple Twitter accounts (a MUST READ for anyone wanting to compare TweetDeck, HootSuite, CoTweet, Pluggio, and more). Disaster unfolds slowing in the Gulf (photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico). 21 awesome riverscape photos.

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Stay N' Alive

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Perhaps it was hearing Ev emphasize “yet&# when talking about CoTweet -like functionality. I mentioned earlier on Twitter that something about Twitter’s new UI (which I’ve actually only seen screenshots and demos of since I’m not on their Press list) really bugged me but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Reading them through, I really wish we could have done a series of Webinars, because the content is simply outstanding. In reality though, there’s exactly two paragraphs about ExactTarget (and CoTweet ) in the entire document – which is a very digestible 14 pages – and they won’t bug you after you download it.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The most popular piece of content getting passed around the Twitterverse is a infographic on Social Media in B2B we produced. You can probably already see the Twitter stream in my sidebar that has become flooded with InsideView news. If you want to follow my work with at InsideView here are the profiles to bookmark.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 4, 2010

This lack of promotion isn’t coincidental: I have a genuine aim to help as many of you as I can succeed online and I’ll do that by focusing purely on the content that I put out there, and not the money I can make with it. Ideally, all of this content would be found on just one or two services, rather than across the web.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 28, 2010

Our EXACT Method On How To Make Money With Google Adsense ¬ J @ Push Reel Mower #4963 November 18th, 2009 at 10:21 pm Im using it as well and find it to be great at encouraging comments and it only helps in keeping content fresh and exciting. J @ Push Reel Mower’s last blog post.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 23, 2009

Jeremy Schoemaker has built a profitable and content rich site in just a few years. Shoe Money though I don’t have an exact age, I would guesstimate at around 35 years old. His site has been around since late 2004 based on his archive.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

philosophy, Jeff is also co-author of the ExactTarget/CoTweet SUBSCRIBERS, FANS & FOLLOWERS Research Series. But be careful—stray too far from what consumers wanted from you in terms of content or frequency, and you’re likely to see your inbox invitation revoked in the form of an unsubscribe. link] Ahmed Haha, an excellent post.

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