August, 2009

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Making Dough(nuts): A Real World Example of Using Social Media.

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Community , Social Media / Making Dough(nuts): A Real World Example of Using Social Media Effectively | Subcribe via RSS Making Dough(nuts): A Real World Example of Using Social Media Effectively August 13th, 2009 Posted in Community , Social Media Tweet Share There aren’t many folks who will argue that social networking isn’t a valuable tool for business.

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Five Ways Facebook Can Get You Fired!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Can your social media activities cost you your job? You bet they can, and it’s my mission to show you how to avoid that fate! You are about to see a number of real-life case studies about Facebook. These people are not actors or anything I dreamed up – they are real people whose lives changed based on a few bad keystrokes and misaligned priorities. So sit back, relax and enjoy another installment of the ways in which social networking can change your life.

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What Happens in Vegas… (Or How to Ruin a Reputation With Just One.

Almost Savvy

Home About Testimonials Events Services Webinars Twitter Getting Started on Twitter Webinar Twitter Webinar: Tools and Tips (Intermediate Level) LinkedIn LinkedIn 1 – Getting Started LinkedIn 2 – Building and Leveraging Your Network Ask Calendar Contact Blogging Branding Business Career Facebook LinkedIn Networking Social Media Tips Twitter Lijit Search What Happens in Vegas… (Or How to Ruin a Reputation With Just One Click) Posted by Irene Koehler in Branding , Career , Facebo

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How Journalism School Taught Me To Be a Better Blogger

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I went to journalism school, which just might make me a “better” blogger. Here’s why I think so. First of all, I learned to write in the “inverted pyramid” style , which says “start with a lead that exposes the most important elements of the story first, and then work down the page to aspects of the story that are of decreasing importance.” It’s a simple way to organize my writing.

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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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Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work Social Media for Non-Profits: How One Small Charity Makes it Work by Tamar Weinberg on August 14, 2009 Share In the spirit of featuring case studies like the ones in Chapter 4 of The New Community Rules , I am going to highlight other companies that have excelled in their social media achievements.

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Facebook Marketing for Businesses | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Facebook Marketing for Businesses Written on August 4, 2009 by Justin Levy in announcements , books , facebook , social media 43 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here!

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Using Social Media to Deepen Customer Relations

Buzz Marketing for Technology

An obvious win for companies looking to jump into Social Media is in the Customer Support area. As more and more customers voice their opinions online, the choice is not if you should be responding using Social Media, but when are you going to start responding! I recently saw figures from Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research that showed 92% of BtoB Technology buyers consider themselves engaging in some form of Social Media.

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Facebook Lite or Facebook Throwback?

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Facebook Lite or Facebook Throwback? by Jesse on August 12, 2009 I’ve seen several articles posted today about Facebook testing a new version of it’s service, Facebook Lite. It appears that Facebook is looking right at Twitter with this version which is centered around status updates and very little else.

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Twittorati Features Tweets Everyone Already Knows About

Socialized

Technorati ’s new Twittorati (launched July 7, and not last week as some sites are reporting ) will feature tweets from what Technorati thinks are the top 100 bloggers. This gives Technorati its coveted “business model&# (everyone wants to be the Digg of Twitter), but it has numerous shortcomings in terms of presenting users with useful and interesting content.

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TwittFaced now available for pre-order | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Book , Social Media , TwittFaced » TwittFaced now available for pre-order TwittFaced now available for pre-order Written on August 21, 2009 by Josh Peters in Book , Social Media , TwittFaced 3 Comments - Leave a comment! TwittFaced, The book that Jacob and I have been slaving away over, is finally available for pre-order on Barns & Noble online.

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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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Daddy Bloggers and Technology Collide to Form the digidads

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Daddy Bloggers and Technology Collide to Form the DigiDads Written on August 20, 2009 by Justin Levy in DigiDads , Sony , SonyDads , announcements 2 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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Twitter Etiquette: Should You Follow Everyone That Follows You.

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / Twitter Etiquette: Should You Follow Everyone That Follows You? | Subcribe via RSS Twitter Etiquette: Should You Follow Everyone That Follows You? August 26th, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share In an earlier post, I talked about the idea of quality vs. quantity when it comes to building out your Twitter following.

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Is Real Time Marketing in your future?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In fact I would argue it is here today. Take a look at one of my last post on Hey Marketer - When was the last time you talked with a customer?? And then ask yourself – how long did some of those interactions take. For Example - We resolved the issue for the person below in 15 minutes! When is the last time you baked up a marketing plan, executed it, got the reaction and closed the whole thing off in 15 minutes!

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Social Media Revolution

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Social Media Revolution by cinta5 on August 23, 2009 Welcome to the world of Socialnomics About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog. Owner of LangfordMedia Blog Twitter Technorati Tags: Social Media Tagged as: Social Media blog comments powered by Disqus Previous post: Facebook Lite or Facebook Throwback?

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Social Media and The Myth of Internet Math

Socialized

When “pitching&# social media marketing and communications initiatives to management, there is a tendency to overestimate the potential response rate based on the sheer number of people on the Internet. Internet World Stats , for example, estimates as of March 31, 2009, there are 1,596,270,108 people online worldwide. That’s right, over 1.5 billion!

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Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. @foxnews tops the list averaging 135.85 tweets per day.

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Why You Should Buy Trust Agents

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Why You Should Buy Trust Agents Written on August 17, 2009 by Justin Levy in books , business , chrisbrogan , marketing , social media , trustagents 4 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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How To Use LinkedIn Groups To Drive Website Traffic | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / How To Use LinkedIn Groups To Drive Website Traffic | Subcribe via RSS How To Use LinkedIn Groups To Drive Website Traffic August 19th, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share Everyone knows that Linked In is THE social network for professionals, allowing you to create a living resume, perform targeted job searches, collect recommendations and connect with others.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Hey Marketer - When was the last time you talked with a customer??

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It’s an odd dynamic I see in play today - in today’s ever connected environment marketers tell me they feel even more removed from direct customer interaction. As a former sale person, I used to schedule “ride-along” time with my sales team just to get out on sales calls and hear how we position ourselves in front of the customer, how that message lands on the customer and more importantly what the customer is saying in reaction to how we are positioned.

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Office Max Penny Pranks are comedy (and social media) gold

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Case Study , Current Affairs , Social Media » Office Max Penny Pranks are comedy (and social media) gold Office Max Penny Pranks are comedy (and social media) gold Written on August 25, 2009 by Josh Peters in Case Study , Current Affairs , Social Media 4 Comments - Leave a comment!

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The Online Privacy Twilight Zone

Socialized

Randy Cohen, “the Ethicist&# for the New York Times, responding to an educator’s inquiry about Facebook ethics, wrote : “…when these students gave her access to their Facebook pages, they waived their right to privacy. But that’s not how many kids see it. To them, Facebook and the like occupy some weird twilight zone between public and private information, rather like a diary left on the kitchen table.&#.

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5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic by Adam Sherk on August 25, 2009 July and August are a time when many content sites see a seasonal dip in all forms of traffic, including search engine referrals. Major stories that emerge (such as Michael Jackson or the health care debate ) can bring large spikes in search traffic, but it’s common to see the numbers drop after May and not pick up again until Septembe

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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Gary Vaynerchuk Treats People Like Goldfish

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Gary Vaynerchuk Treats People Like Goldfish Written on August 18, 2009 by Justin Levy in community , gary vaynerchuk , networking , social media , video 8 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking.

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Community , Social Media / Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking About What You Want | Subcribe via RSS Controlling The Conversation: Strategies To Get People Talking About What You Want August 17th, 2009 Posted in Community , Social Media Tweet Share No matter the time, place, platform, or technology, having people talking about your company, products or services is a good thing period.

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How Social Commerce leads to Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Every company today is headed for a Brave New World of eCommerce – and that is the world of Social Commerce. Almost a year ago, July 23rd 2008, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Connect, which gives any website the power of a social network like Facebook right there on its own website. So what you say? Facebook Connect provides 4 very important features: 1) Trusted Authentication – meaning it uses your Facebook account to authenticate your profile 2) Real Identity – meaning it taps into your rea

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What do you think of when you hear Social Media? | Shuaism

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media , Strategy » What do you think of when you hear Social Media? What do you think of when you hear Social Media? Written on August 20, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media , Strategy 0 Comments - Leave a comment! When someone says “Social Media&# what images and ideas go through your mind?

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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#101: Jeff Mills on Outsourcing

Taylor Marek

Special “On the Dorm Edition&# Listen in and get a feel for the new sound!Sponsored by GoToMeeting, try it FREE for 30 days: [link] On campus, so it may sound a tad different than normal. But I am pumped to release this episode even though I’m in the middle of college classes. Enjoy! Finances, Business, and Technology: [.]. Special “On the Dorm Edition" Listen in and get a feel for the new sound!

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Pro PR Tips: 100 Tips from Rafe Needleman Published in a Book

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book by Adam Sherk on August 11, 2009 Yesterday I received a copy of Rafe Needleman ’s Pro PR Tips in the mail from ITDatabase. I’d seen some of the tips previously via Twitter and on the Pro PR Tips blog , but the book presents them in a nice, clean format that makes for a good read.

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Get Your Chipotle On – iPhone Style! | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Get Your Chipotle On – iPhone Style! Written on August 29, 2009 by Justin Levy in applications , food , iphone , restaurants 18 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here!

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Social Network Quality vs. Quantity: What's More Important.

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / Social Network Quality vs. Quantity: What’s More Important? | Subcribe via RSS Social Network Quality vs. Quantity: What’s More Important? August 9th, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share When I peruse the different Twitter followers and followees I often get Twitter envy when I stumble across some users with a large follower base.

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Cost per Advocate - the new CPA Model!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In my last blog post we discussed How Social Commerce will lead to Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM) because of things like Facebook Connect. And if we start to move to Advocacy Based Marketing (ABM) then perhaps a new measurement – the Cost per Advocate model will need to be born. Cost per Acquisition (the old CPA) has been around since the dawn of the internet.

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