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Sure I love the conversation but…

Direct Marketing Observations

We being the one’s that were there early on who experienced the magic of connecting with someone as smart as say Gavin Heaton or Tom Martin and having them host our social media tweetchat. But what made all of those discussions and conversations cool was that we were connecting. To have conversations or make money?

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31+ of the Coolest Social Media, Search and Web Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

A free service for setting up, promoting and hosting Twitter chats. Lithium also includes response assignment and reporting tools. Lithium also includes response assignment and reporting tools. Highlight the best comments, selectively hide comments (e.g. twebevent. Social and Alternative Search Engines.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

Key players: Crimson Hexagon , Lithium , Radian6 , Sysomos , Trackur , Visible Technologies. Ideally, I could assign conversation opportunities to various people in the company.” ” You need Social Conversation Software (AKA Social Media Engagement Software, Social Media Management Software). investor), Vocus.

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2012 NFL picks via social media start tomorrow

Jeff Esposito

Tomorrow, the NFL kicks off another season and with that everyone from armchair quarterbacks to TV hosts and the President will be making predictions for games. This year, I am going to continue my work from last year in predicting winners of the games using social media buzz and some formulas using Lithium Social Media Monitoring.

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Do you need to own your community?

Jeff Esposito

Companies and brands should embrace these conversations when they can. the barrier of entry is also far lower than that of a company-hosted community. Aside from the cost of a Jive or Lithium, creating your own community comes with the task of recruiting users to the platform and keeping them coming back.

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

Convince & Convert

The Voice of the People Sure, infomercials include a lot of patter from the host (and his trusty sidekick, the otherwise-out-of-work-former-TV-hostess). The hosts on infomercials are playing to lonely sleepless people, and while you know the products are most likely cheap or sketchy, there's an allure there. Take a look at Zappos.