Convince & Convert

MARCH 31, 2011

As usage of tools like CoTweet (client) and Hootsuite soar, this becomes an ever-more-likely scenario. Ketchum apologized via a statement only after the FedEx dust-up became big news around ad industry water coolers. In most cases, no. Andrews was reprimanded, and eventually left to start his own firm.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 28, 2011

As usage of tools like CoTweet (client) and Hootsuite soar, this becomes an ever-more-likely scenario. Ketchum apologized via a statement only after the FedEx dust-up became big news around ad industry water coolers. In most cases, no. Andrews was reprimanded, and eventually left to start his own firm.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2010

A terrific, relevant guest post from my friend Katie Van Domelan (now the client services manager at Cotweet – one of my clients). I’m delighted that it got a lot of attention, as it’s an important issue if we’re going to truly move this industry forward. She nailed it.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 17, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Using Cotweet to Manage Multiple Twitter Profiles CoTweet is a Twitter web application that lets anyone manage multiple twitter profile from one easy interface. As a free service CoTweet lets you manage up to 5 accounts at once. Maybe it’s entirely scalable.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 5, 2010

I am excited for what this year is to bring with new products and some additional technology that is needed and different enough to get peoples attention. Traditional marketing only goes so far and emailing news is not the best way to communicate with people and even worse if you want to have your message shared with others.

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Koka Sexton

APRIL 28, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Mayor of Concord HyperLocal Blog I started the Mayor of Concord blog about 8 months ago blogging about local news and events. I only have a few hundred posts so far but I am getting a far amount of traffic from the area from people looking for news. Leave a comment!

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Jeff Esposito

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Why more celebrities and public figures are turning to social media – while not surprising I find the phenomenon of celebrities hopping on social networks to drop news or updates to their fans fascinating. What the world really needs at this point in time is another search engine… especially one powered by M.C.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 8, 2009

FriendFeed is a service which, instead of layering a meta-network on top of all your other social networks, will create a news feed incorporating them all much like the Facebook news feed. FriendFeed aims to be a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. Leave a comment!

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 17, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Using Cotweet to Manage Multiple Twitter Profiles CoTweet is a Twitter web application that lets anyone manage multiple twitter profile from one easy interface. As a free service CoTweet lets you manage up to 5 accounts at once. Maybe it’s entirely scalable.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

That’s because Facebook’s EdgeRank formula ensures that only status updates from companies that consumers routinely interact with show up in their news feed (unless the Facebook member changes their News Feed preferences to “Most Recent&# – anecdotally Facebook acknowledges that fewer than 5% do so).

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. I hardly watch TV for news unless there is a breaking story that I want to see video of. I blog about news in Concord Ca.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

I did some tweaking on the @paragonamerica profile, it had about 6 followers at the time and started feeding in some updates and links to news about the company. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds. Interesting thoughts via @jayber here: [link] [link] arikhanson What does the Exact Target/CoTweet marriage mean for you and your brand? There’s an optimal time of day and day of week to tweet. Between bit.ly

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Then she broke the news. .&# I thought but then I realized I may regret that. “You know what there made of?&# Here it comes. I knew it, there was something wrong with them. She made them with black beans. YES…a can of Black Beans. Evidently, they are a healthier alternate to regular brownies.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Well…some of them sent me new readers by not playing so nice and trying to get me removed. Instead of leaving the site to organic sources of traffic, I branched out and learned what I could about getting included into other news sites and found some great places to spread the word about your blog on a very local level.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

I am very interested in the news of my area and sometimes the mainstream outlets don’t cover my city as much as I would like. TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. I started this back in Aug. town and city.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

Not to be confused with the local blogs like Mayor of Concord or Claycord that fill the internets with news. I was on the news and written about in the SF Chronicle. Even when I was being video taped for the CBS News , the reporter had a note pad. It was a free monthly newspaper that talked just about our not-so-little city.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

I am very interested in the news of my area and sometimes the mainstream outlets don’t cover my city as much as I would like. TOPIX Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. I started this back in Aug. town and city.

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

I did some tweaking on the @paragonamerica profile, it had about 6 followers at the time and started feeding in some updates and links to news about the company. In the @paragonamerica profile I focus on updates for our corporate line of software and industry news that applies to the storage market.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Major online news sites use BlogBurst to fill the void with user generated content. When main stream media starts grabbing headlines from blogs, they tap into a wealth of news and niche topics that they could have missed. For example I wanted to be “THE&# site that comes up anytime someone googles Mayor of Concord.

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Koka Sexton

AUGUST 11, 2010

Maybe these are all old news to most of you but I thought it was awesome so I figured I’d share. I’ve been using LinkedIn for years, mainly to keep in contact with old coworkers that I don’t have connected on other social media like Twitter or Facebook. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I try to follow the trends and news around social media as best I can. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Corporate Social Media Reading List I’m a huge fan of social media. I joined Twitter on June 30 2007 and after a few bumps in the road, I was addicted and even wrote a set of top twitter tips.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I try to follow the trends and news around social media as best I can. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Corporate Social Media Reading List I’m a huge fan of social media. I joined Twitter on June 30 2007 and after a few bumps in the road, I was addicted and even wrote a set of top twitter tips.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 12, 2009

Between getting my breaking news updates and talking to friends, Twitter has become a staple in my life. I don’t know if they started charging but the recent ‘validation’ of Twitter applications makes me feel much better about using services that I have to identify my credentials through.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 12, 2009

Between getting my breaking news updates and talking to friends, Twitter has become a staple in my life. I don’t know if they started charging but the recent ‘validation’ of Twitter applications makes me feel much better about using services that I have to identify my credentials through.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Wall Street Journal Online, Wired News, Ziff Davis), A-list bloggers and blog networks and individual publishers from around the world. 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

AUGUST 11, 2010

Maybe these are all old news to most of you but I thought it was awesome so I figured I’d share. I’ve been using LinkedIn for years, mainly to keep in contact with old coworkers that I don’t have connected on other social media like Twitter or Facebook. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I tend to follow the news on a more national and world level. What are they writing about or are they just posting news and things already in the mainstream. Blogs are becoming more useful to communities than mainstream news sources that have to cover much larger areas and the REAL local news gets lost among the sensationalism.

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS 101 things to do when you have nothing to write about A list of 101 things to Do when writing just isn’t an option by phoenixdailyphoto Learn a card trick Play solitaire on your iPhone Learn how to touch type Go swimming Recode your blog theme Tidy up your room Rename your collection of 10,000 (..)

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 30, 2009

Sincerely, Larry I don’t Ma.gnolia for my bookmarks but the news of this outage disturbes me anyway. I know that many of you rely on Ma.gnolia in your day to day work and play flow to safely host you bookmarks, keeping them available around the clock, and that this is a difficult disruption.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Thankfully for Twitter, the news spread quickly and hit my screen on Sunday. 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.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Never before have I been so fixated on every graph, map or percentage point talked about on the news. With that many people sending updates and communication, the volume of updates including a Presidential candidate must have been a welcoming space for Twitter to test out this new feature. Twitter became my primary media source.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Never before have I been so fixated on every graph, map or percentage point talked about on the news. With that many people sending updates and communication, the volume of updates including a Presidential candidate must have been a welcoming space for Twitter to test out this new feature. Twitter became my primary media source.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Remember the Milk’s blog is full of recent news and updates to their service. Share, send and publish tasks and lists with your contacts or the world. Remind your significant other to do their household chores. Ya.like I’m letting my wife know about this.)

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Biz Stone the Twitter Co-Founder responded to the numerous news articles discussing Twitters plan to charge for service saying “Whatever we come up with, Twitter will remain free to use by everyone-individuals, companies, celebrities,&# in a recent blog post.

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Koka Sexton

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Biz Stone the Twitter Co-Founder responded to the numerous news articles discussing Twitters plan to charge for service saying “Whatever we come up with, Twitter will remain free to use by everyone-individuals, companies, celebrities,&# in a recent blog post.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Remember the Milk’s blog is full of recent news and updates to their service. Share, send and publish tasks and lists with your contacts or the world. Remind your significant other to do their household chores. Ya.like I’m letting my wife know about this.)

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