Fri.May 25, 2012

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Putting your best foot forward in PR

Sherrilynne Starkie

As recent Ottawa PR graduates are making the transition from student to professional, CPRS Ottawa/Gatineau is helping them with the search for full-time jobs, summer gigs and upcoming fieldwork experiences. That’s why the public relations society has organized Dress4Success, an event to help students put their best foot forward! It’s a fun and informative evening of presentations by industry experts, and it’s topped off with a stylish fashion show by Suzy Shier.

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Outsourcing Social Media – Is It Worth It?

SocMed Sean

Today’s guest post comes from Matt Powers, who is an Internet Marketer at Blue Soda Promo , an online promotional products company. I appreciate Matt taking the time to share an interesting experience he had with outsourcing social media management! If you’re thinking about turning over the keys to your social channels to a 3rd party agency, read Matt’s post and think carefully about who you choose.

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Personal Update: I’m changing jobs

Josh S Peters

So this is a rather bitter sweet post. Today is officially my last day with The Search Agency as their Manager, Social Media and Tuesday I start with Fanscape as as Senior Social Media Manager. It’s a good shift and a good change for me professionally, but it’s not without it’s twinge of bitterness in that I will deeply miss some of the people I have worked with at The Search Agency.

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Corporate social media: skate everywhere the puck has been and is going

Socialized

I've said repeatedly that corporate social media doesn't have its own strategy any more than Microsoft Word does. Social media is/are a set of really powerful tools, and therefore tactics, not a strategy. But that doesn't mean a company shouldn't be everywhere -- Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and maybe a couple of.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Toon Time: Pinterest to the Rescue

Waxing UnLyrical

Erin Feldman is the marketing communications manager at TouchSystems , a touch screen company based in Hutto, Texas. Her background is in marketing and creative writing, and she riffs about writing right at her blog, Write Right (so write right, don’t make her use her red pen). She spends the rest of her time writing poetry, drawing, reading, and running.

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Android Apps for National League Central Division Baseball Fans

Idaconcpts

The National League’s Central Division is full of surprises this year. Teams are jockeying for position to gain the right to compete in the playoffs in September. There is a lot of baseball to play before the winner is decided. So don’t let yourself be caught unawares. Make sure that you have one of these apps on your Android phone. Or you may spend the winter wondering just what happened.

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New Facebook Pages App Hits Phones

The Social Media Incubator

A new Facebook Pages app hit phones earlier this week and our social media specialist, Chelsea Janke, has been reviewing it to get insight into the new features and how it can help you better admin your page. Here is her thoughts on the new app: “While I love the idea of being able to admin pages directly from a specific app and this will allow for better efficiency and control over posting on company pages, I feel that the app currently lacks in one particular department that has been an

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Could Your Online Content Destroy Your Business?

Small Business Mavericks

Online content can be a powerful tool when it comes to promoting your business. We have in the past discussed problems with stale content and how search engines now prefer fresh and up-to-date content. The problem is, old content still rises to the top in search results, especially when it comes to images and videos. And that old content could be a time bomb waiting to destroy your business.

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Why Facebook Camera Matters

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Facebook launched a mobile camera app. You may be wondering why Facebook launched a mobile camera app (quaintly called, Camera ) just a short while after purchasing Instagram in a heart-stopping billion dollar acquisition. Everywhere you turn online, there is discourse about this app. Most of the discourse is a quizzical wonder as to why Facebook would even bother (especially because many people think that it is inferior to Instagram's capabilities).

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Should I Link My Twitter and LinkedIn Accounts?

Absolute PA

On the face of it this seems like a good idea. What’s not to love? You’re connected to different people on both platforms. You’re time poor with a business to run. You want to reach and stay in touch with as many of your connections as possible in record time. There are 3 big reasons why auto linking your Twitter and LinkedIn accounts is a bad idea.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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The Blog Of Awesome

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In a sea of content, how do you make your stuff stand out? This was one of the questions I was asked during the Burning Questions Panel at this morning's C2 MTL conference. In short, my answer was: Be awesome because mediocrity is very obvious in a world where everybody can publish. On June 28th, 2008 (nearly four years ago), I penned a blog post titled, Mass Media Or Mass Content - What's Worse?

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What Blog Products Are You Working On?

ProBlogger

At the start of this month, I began releasing details of this year’s ProBlogger Training Day. This is a big event for me and my team, and there’s a lot to organize. The Training Day won’t take place until October, but already we’ve spent months organizing speakers, booking venues, releasing earlybird tickets, and so on. Around the same time I put out a call for alpha testers on the new ProBlogger Marketplace we’ve been working on.

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The (Forgotten) Power of Email

Idaconcpts

When working with business both in Hawaii and around the world, clients are often interested in jumping into social media. The conversation usually starts with a social media channel and how they can jump into it (e.g. “My friends told me about Facebook and they think it is the best way for me to reach potential customers. How can I get started?).

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