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EVENT: Social Media World Forum in Singapore

Laurel Papworth

I’m speaking on social media monetization at Social Media WorldForum in Singapore on September 22nd-23rd. You can book at social media world forum. There will be two days of “interactive & engaging social media conference featuring leading key figure keynotes, brand case studies, topical Q&A and debates,exhibition hall, workshops and networking.&# Social Media WorldForum. Twitter: Measuring clickthrus Social Media Metrics (10).

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10 Ways to Use Social Networks for B2B Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Social networks are essential for expanding your web presence —not only for creating social signals now a key component in search engine rankings, which makes your website and blog easier to find in search, but also by giving you more places to be found online. Creating your profile on each of the major social networks is a first step, but just that. As with most things in life, you’ll get out of social networks what you put into them.

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Which social network is best for my business?

Lucy Hall

Which social network is best for me and my business? And there are now heaps of channels and social media platforms a business can get set up on for free, some are more popular than others. Each social network has it’s advantages and of course some have disadvantages. It has to be said that you don’t necessarily have to be active on all of the networks otherwise you may find you will be spreading yourself too thin. Forums.

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Sydney Social Media Course – 3 Days with Laptop

Laurel Papworth

Sydney social media course 2013. Walk away with a social media strategy, campaign, tools. Facebook, Twitter, Social Media Dashboards, Google Plus, Social Media Measurement. Sydney Social Media Course . Are you looking for an intensive social media strategy and campaign course with hands on practical setting up of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools? 29 to 31 July – Sydney 3 Day Social Media course.

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Which social network is best for my business?

Lucy Hall

Which social network is best for me and my business? And there are now heaps of channels and social media platforms a business can get set up on for free, some are more popular than others. Each social network has it's advantages and of course some have disadvantages. It has to be said that you don't necessarily have to be active on all of the networks otherwise you may find you will be spreading yourself too thin.

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Social Network Analysis - KM4DevWiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Social Network Analysis. 1 Social Network Analysis. Social Network Analysis. Social network analysis is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organisations, computers or other information/knowledge processing entities." Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a method for visualizing our people and connection power, leading us to identify how we can best interact to share knowledge.

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THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS….

Myrland Marketing

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense THE BEST SOCIAL NETWORK FOR LAWYERS, OR ANYONE, IS… by Nancy Myrland on April 6, 2010 An interesting question was posed on a legal marketing forum of which I am a member. The question had to do with a recommendation for the most effective online social network for lawyers.

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Social Media Course – $176 – 13 June 2012 Sydney with @InforumGroup

Laurel Papworth

Workshop training on social media strategy and campaigns – I’m teaching (doing a practical session, showing how to set up Facebook, Twitter, blog etc) an afternoon course with Inforum Group. You’ll see how to build a social media monitoring dashboard, set up social media press release site, learn the difference between a 9 step social media strategy, a 5 step campaign and so on. Book social media course.

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Social Media Intensive Course – August 2016 – Sydney Training

Laurel Papworth

Are you looking for an intensive social media course for advanced or professionals? Beyond the basics of Facebook and Twitter, this social media course takes you through writing a social media strategy, developing online community campaigns, running Facebook competitions, key influencer strategies for Bloggers and Twitterati, setting up social media monitoring dashboards, understanding the various algorithms on Facebook and LinkedIn and so on.

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Facebook Intensive Class – Computer Class, 1 Day

Laurel Papworth

Course Agenda. COMPUTER COURSE: Facebook has one billion members – are you ready? A very intensive, advanced, ONE day course – we start at the beginning and go very deep. Know a friend who might like the course? Laurel is the CEO of The Community Crew managing massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. More social media courses are available here.

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Social Media Training: 3 Day Intensive Advanced Class

Laurel Papworth

If you are a company, government department or organisation interested in social media training for your staff, this three day class held privately at your premises (or we can organise premises for you) suits those looking for a more indepth course. The courses are a mix of lecture, group challenges and computer based exercises (if you have laptops/computer ). Those who do not yet have any social media profiles online may struggle as this course is fast paced.

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Insider Trading, meet Outsider Traders, #SocialMedia style #Tesla

Laurel Papworth

Wall Street should be monitoring social media. The example below is from Tesla community but I betcha we could crowdsource Outsider Trading information on any product or brand or company… (Note: Australian Companies MUST report social media discussions that impact stock ). Today, there is a thread going beserk on the Tesla forums : Tracking Highest VINs. This is social media. digital economy social media cars forums stock price tesla Twitter vins wall street

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Sony Builds Interactive Social Media Hub For 2014 World Cup

The Realtime Report

This online forum, which opened on May 1st, compiles the comments and conversations of soccer fans across the world on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, organizing them all on one website. One Stadium Live will highlight the event’s most recent – and talked about – news, results, and (of course) conflicts. The forum will also keep statistics on all 32 teams and their players as the tournament progresses.

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3 Day Social Media Intensive – Hands on! Sydney 2014

Laurel Papworth

Shares Hiya, I’m running my last 3 Day social media intensive for this year, in December. A very practical course with small group (about 10 people) – bring your laptop to set up tools for improving Facebook, Twitter, blogs, social media press releases, measurement, strategy, campaigns and so on. Are you looking for an intensive social media strategy and campaign course with hands on practical setting up of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools?

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Why You Need a Blog: Blogs Are The Websites of The Social Media.

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « How To Post Effectively on Facebook Successful Ways To Create User Involvement » Why You Need a Blog: Blogs Are The Websites of The Social Media World Posted by admin Sep 24th, 2010 Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum.

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Event: Australian Institute of Company Directors AICD social media

Laurel Papworth

I’m heading over to New Zealand from 12th to 15th May 2010 to participate in social media forum at the Australian Institute of Company Directors Annual Conference. 10.00am – 12.00pm FORUM B: The Commercial Benefits of Today’s Social Networking Platforms. This forum is now fully booked Innovative uses of social networking in the business environment are endless. Twitter: Reputation Management in Social Networks (18).

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Welcoming New Members to your Online Community

Laurel Papworth

While I think this is the best online community signup ever, there’s more that you can do to make it easy for Visitors to move to Newcomers in the social network membership cycle. It’s really no surprise as mass social network audiences learn what really suits them. The Ravelry social network getting started page doesn’t have to be on your own community site, lots of Facebook pages also have “newcomer landing pages&#.

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Facebook talks like a pirate. Movember and online community rituals

Laurel Papworth

Ahoy Me Hearties: One of the tasks our online community managers undertake with clients (PR or Marketing agencies, or companies) is to build out a Social Media Conversation Diary – a list of tasks and engagement activities to keep online community members entertained and loyal. Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or a blog or forum, always a great idea to agree in advance on viral spiked activities. Movember and Social Media.

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Social Media Ostriches – The Corporate Hypocrisy Of Blocking Employee Access To Facebook and Twitter

SocMed Sean

Over the course of my career, I have worked for companies ranging from small boutique shops all the way up to Fortune 500 and 100 companies and my experience has been that the bigger the shop, the more resistant to new technologies the decision-makers are. In short, by ignoring new technologies like Social Media and Social Networking, companies are not only burying their proverbial heads, but are actively engaging in hypocrisy regarding their messages to employees.

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Influencers- Friend or Stranger?

Laurel Papworth

When it comes to social media and the influencer who wins – those you know but aren’t experts or those you don’t know who are? Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. They need the most active friends as possible, so expect people who currently are, or want to be, power users to be more social from day one.

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Social Media Marketing Policies and Education: The Employee.

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Youtube Makes Interactive Gallery 5 Popular Posts About Social Media » Social Media Marketing Policies and Education: The Employee Perspective Posted by admin Sep 9th, 2010 Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum.

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Cyberbullying and blogs – a case study Mumbrella

Laurel Papworth

Or is this just “acceptable&# competitive behaviour by someone who see’s himself as my competitor in the social media space? And from The Department of Education in Victoria : Bullying is when someone, or a group of people, upset or create a risk to another person’s health and safety – either psychologically or physically – or their property, reputation or social acceptance on more than one occasion. encouraging others to socially exclude someone.

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Defining a Strategy To Use Content In B2B Marketing

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Improve Organizational Efficiency via Social Media-Part II Roskilde Festival is on Foursquare » Defining a Strategy To Use Content In B2B Marketing Posted by admin Jul 1st, 2010 Tweet Mindjumpers collaborates with bloggers associated with the Social Marketing Forum. This is done in the first place with the content itself, but of course it must also be done in other ways.

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Event: Customer Service Call Centres and Social Media

Laurel Papworth

I’ve been asked to speak in Melbourne on April 15th (evening) about the impact of social media, online communities, social networks and call centres. As you probably know, I believe that while marketing and PR want social networks to be about them and their needs, the customer usually has a specific question they want answered, best suited to Customer Service engaging on support and FAQ issues. Social Media is revolutionising the way we do business.

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Singapore: University + Twitter = Twuniversity

Laurel Papworth

A Singapore-based university lecturer believes educators should harness the potential of social media as it is not only practical, this is in the interest of students who will go into the workforce as “efficient knowledge workers&#. With students using channels such as Twitter or discussion forums in their normal life, it “only makes sense&# for educators to speak to them through channels they are familiar with and proficient at using, said Netzley.

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2 Tips for Creating Sharable Content for Influencers – SEO Strategies

Twenty4 Social

Then when they read it on your site they’ll be more likely to want to post it on their own websites or on forums. Fast forward a few years though and I’d argue that many of the social network influencers could stand to learn a thing from the technique. .

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Donations as Revenue: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

Episode 2 of monetizing online communities looks at donations – an overlooked revenue stream and the social media tools that enable donations online. This does NOT have to be Not For Profits – social networks that have a “community&# feel, can also connect with the goodwill of the members and seek donations as a revenue stream. Online social media services provide scope for members to donate time, resources and money how and when they want.

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Social media loyalty: me like you long time (but me hard to get)

Mindjumpers

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. This post is not about movies but about “the loyalty&# of fans, followers and all those other labels we give to people on social media. The average user of social and new media follows less than five brands. A second question is of course “what is a brand”?

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Facebook Subscriptions 2018 – Stop the Whining

Laurel Papworth

In most communities (bulletin boards, forums etc) ad free is an addon to the main upgrade (extra features) not the killer sales point of freemium to premium. My Social Media and Facebook Courses are available online and in Sydney and privately. social media ad tracking Facebook privacy subscriptionsWhat does Facebook Paid Subscriptions really mean? I don’t like my data being sold more than anyone but I recognise a free service has to monetise in some way.

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Why And How Your Employees And Business Can Become Trusted Influencers

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Youtube Makes User-generated Feature Film: Life In A Day 5 Great Infographics About Social Media » Why And How Your Employees And Business Can Become Trusted Influencers Posted by admin Jul 12th, 2010 Tweet This guest blog is written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced interactive marketing journalist and blogger. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum.

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Social Media Marketers: Time to Get Personal

Mindjumpers

On our blog, we have written about the journey of making the extensive amounts of Big Data reveal as well as increase the social ROI. This is of course paramount to making the wheels of the bus go round. But another thing that is just as essential to becoming a profitable social media success, is to understand the basic ground rules of partaking in social media: the users. In the centre of any good community management approach is of course the identity of the brand.

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6 Reasons Social Media Sucks, But You Need to Use It Anyway

Webbiquity SMM

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI? It’s true that social media remains in many ways a sort of wild west. 6 Reasons Social Media Sucks.

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Romi Mahajan leaves Microsoft to Join Metavana as CMO

Buzz Marketing for Technology

My new role as CMO of Metavana, a soon to be launched social-sentiment engine, has all the elements of my dream job – People, Impact, Autonomy and direct correlation to both the Consumer and Enterprise spaces. Q: So social sentiment analysis is a big debate and quite the rage now, with new companies and new approaches cropping up frequently. I am a strong believer that social sentiment and voice of the customer cannot be sequestered in some nether region of an organization.

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Five Digital Channels For Word of Mouth Marketing

Mindjumpers

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. But with the arrival of social media their strength has increased even more. Word of mouth marketing has found a strong partner in social media which further emphasizes more personal and relevant relations with clients, prospects, brand advocates and communities. But of course it must also be possible to spread these stories.

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Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media Choice of Form: Two Legal Seminars As Social Media by Tamar Weinberg on December 2, 2008 Share This is a guest post by search engine optimization expert Gab Goldenberg , who actually spends a good chunk of his time in a classroom: he’s a law student! I see this seminar as a forum.

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Social Media Crisis: Australian Securities Exchange crash ASX

Laurel Papworth

No social media, no updates for hours. Mistake Number One: Assuming The Press Don’t Use Social Media. Ignoring the Press that use instant, always on social media as well as their own traditional channels, is a bigger mistake. Mistake Number Two: Starting and not Continuing in Social Media. I suspect this was a case of “Our social media strategy is to have some social media accounts&#. Should ASX pay attention to social media?

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12 Ways to DO and NOT DO a Social Media Press Release – MSF Medecins Sans Frontieres

Laurel Papworth

I’m a social media strategist that blogs about social media and online communities so I find it frustrating when I am sent a PDF attachment on an email with a traditional media press release using agency created content, professional film crews employed to do the traditional campaign filming and ditto with professional musicians. The only “social” part is to please please please blog about it, tugging on For A Good Cause™ heartstrings. So some social.

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Traffic Technique 5: Social Media

ProBlogger

We all agree that social media networks offer a number of benefits to bloggers. Getting traffic through social media might seem like it’s about getting users to share your content. how you respond to social network visitors. what social search could, to should, mean to you. your involvement and presence on these networks. But now we’re seeing a bounty of other sharing options flood onto the market: social currency systems.

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

Convince & Convert

But it’s not like social media created negativity, it just puts a magnifying glass to it. The public and immediate nature of getting slammed via social is what stings. But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. The customers that take you to task in social media aren’t the ones you need to worry about. Your problem isn’t social media negativity.

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Google+ Tactics of the Blogging Pros

ProBlogger

Since we covered Pinterest recently , I thought I’d explore Google+ today, and check out the approaches some of the A-list bloggers are using on this network. A similarly focused strategy might be suitable for you if you feel that some aspect of your blog offering is particularly appropriate for the Google+ audience, and you want to see how much traction you can get from the network for that particular offering. Social Media Blog Promotion Google Plus social networking

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Market yourself as an individual

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Discussion forums still alive. He decided to do something out of his normal course of life. I write about Social Media and how it is being used as a conversational channel by individuals and organizations. Quick post – Cool sites (Wis.dm) August 2, 2007.10:53 53 am Market yourself as an individual Jump to Comments Long ago, somewhere in the streets of Nigeria, there used to live a young guy.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

Of course, that’s not surprising, since Facebook announced that they are changing the company name to Meta. On October 28, 2021 Facebook filed for a trademark on the word Meta.

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Twitter for Business: Is It Time?

Webbiquity SMM

Twitter is generally viewed as the second-best social network for B2B marketing , behind only LinkedIn. Of course it would be supported by advertising, but even the ads would be more valuable to business users; more Wall Street Journal, less Flo from Progressive.

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