November, 2009

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Why it pays to use a Social Media Specialist

Harp Interactive

As the saying goes…if you’re going to do something, do it right. This tried and true philosophy rings just as true today for any businesses entering into social media marketing. For small businesses and entrepreneurs, it is not uncommon to find the owners and employees wearing many hats – from new business development to accounting to customer service.

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

Socialized

Here are my five social media predictions for 2010. 1. Augmented Reality Applications Will Start to Go Mainstream. Augmented Reality (AR) is the ability to place computer-generated information, such as text and labels, on top of live real world data, such as video from a smart phone. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept.

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13 Signs That You're At a Tech Conference | Almost Savvy

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 13 Signs That You’re At a Tech Conference Posted by Irene Koehler in Business , Networking , Social Media on November 23, 2009

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Isle of Man Newspapers' parent to intoduce online subscription fees

Sherrilynne Starkie

Image via CrunchBase. Johnston Press, parent company to the Isle of Man Newspapers , is introducing subscriptions fees on their websites in a pilot scheme starting next week. The Worksop Guardian, Ripley & Heanor News, Northumberland Gazette, Whitby Gazette (all in England), and the Southern Reporter and Carrick Gazette (in Scotland) will restrict access to non-subscribers, in an attempt to create revenues from their websites.

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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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The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on November 18, 2009 UPDATE: There is a a newer post on this topic here: The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook: 2010 Season The role of social media in professional sports is getting a lot of attention these days, unfortunately mostly in the form of teams and leagues trying to clamp down on it or players making mistakes with it.

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Tips on how to use Twitter if you're a business

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Tips on how to use Twitter if you’re a business by cinta5 on November 15, 2009 It’s great to see new businesses and organizations join Twitter! I’ve had the pleasure of sitting down with a few of them and share tips on how to use Twitter.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

Socialized

If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). The most influential people on Twitter are either already celebrities, create their own content, or both.

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I'm Engaged! (4 Tales of Accidental Twitter Friends)

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 I’m Engaged!

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Google Wave Invites: Grab Your Board

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / Google Wave Invites: Grab Your Board | Subcribe via RSS Google Wave Invites: Grab Your Board November 29th, 2009 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share I’ve been playing around with Google Wave for a month or so, and while I think it’s definitely a cool way to manage your communication, the fact is, I don’t know many people that are actually using it yet.

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Entrepreneurial resources

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Twitter’s Retweet feature (beta) Criticising Social Media ? November 26, 2009.5:10 pm Entrepreneurial resources Jump to Comments Customer development methodology Good product manager bad product manager Customer development process Minimum Viable Product Project rifle Research writing methodology Conducting market research Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under Entrepreneur , Entrepreneurship Tags: Entrepreneur , presentation , research , vi

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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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Social Media Trends in 2010

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Thoughts on Social Media Trends in 2010 by cinta5 on November 4, 2009 David Armano of HarvardBusiness.org published on Monday what he believes to be the social media trends in 2010. I think he hit the nail on the head. 1. Social media begins to look less social Armano mentions the hyperactive updaters on Facebook and the ability to “hide&# them.

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How to Craft Compelling Messages For Social Media Platforms

Harp Interactive

Writing effectively for online media and social networks is an evolving art. As print becomes redundant, social media emerges to fill the gap with its short form communication style that is meant to engage non-readers. There are numerous articles with tips on writing for the web and writing-guides and rules for individual platforms like Twitter and Blogs.

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Facebook Dislike Button is a Bad Idea

Socialized

Facebook users have launched a handful of petition drives asking the social network to allow users to click a thumbs-down icon to give a news feed item, advertisement, etc. a “Dislike,&# just as they can currently give it a thumbs-up, or “Like.&# There are several Facebook groups with a million or more users advocating this. The group Petition for a Dislike Button has, as of this post, over 2.8 million members.

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Moments and The Power of Not Laughing

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 Moments and The Power of Not Laughing Posted by Irene Koehler in Networking , Social Media , Twitter on November 25, 2009 | 12 respo

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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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Apple Magic Mouse Review

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Apple , Computer Hardware / Apple Magic Mouse Review | Subcribe via RSS Apple Magic Mouse Review November 8th, 2009 Posted in Apple , Computer Hardware Tweet Share It’s no secret I have formed a deep, passionate love for all things Apple over the past 6 months. After a 2 month learning curve getting used to the differences in operating systems, I am fully assimilated.

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An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at News Media Twitter Lists: Not Much Traction by Adam Sherk on November 3, 2009 With all the buzz about Twitter Lists I thought I’d take a look at how some major news sites are doing so far with their own Lists. Looking at selection of Twitter accounts from 30 31 news sites, I checked the number of Lists that have been created and how many followers each has attracted to-date.

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Happy holidays! Google offers free WiFi in 47 airports

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Happy holidays! Google offers free WiFi in 47 airports by cinta5 on November 10, 2009 Those traveling this holiday season are in for a treat! Starting today through January 15th, Google is offering free WiFi in 47 airports. Marisa Mayer, a VP at Google stated, “This is one of our holiday gifts to our users, and, when you connect, we also hope that you’ll take the opportunity to try s

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5 Symptoms of Social Media Couch Potato Syndrome

Harp Interactive

A recently exposed syndrome, social media couch potato (SMCP), has become more prevalent and widespread among businesses that have recently adopted social media platforms. They are soon struck with the fact that social media marketing takes strategy, planning, resources, content, time and…more time. They become overwhelmed, haven’t planned properly, don’t have the strategies or resources in place to execute and the results are…social media couch potato syndrome.

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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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Stand By for a Foursquare Superuser

Socialized

“Stand by for a fighter pilot,&# Robert Duvall’s character, Lt. Col. “Bull&# Meechum, declares as he enters the room in the movie The Great Santini. And are those of us risking our lives every day on the social media front lines any less deserving of respect? Perhaps it doesn’t deserve the status of a combat fighter pilot, but Foursquare has upgraded me to “Superuser&# status, which means: “you gain the ability to edit our venue database (fixing incorrect addr

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Help Me Help You | Almost Savvy

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 Help Me Help You – When You Have Questions Posted by Irene Koehler in Facebook , LinkedIn , Social Media , Twitter on November

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Is Social Media A Fad?

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Is Social Media A Fad? Written on November 29, 2009 by Justin Levy in social media , stats , video 29 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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What to look for in a Social Media Marketer?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. Typically this means hire someone who knows our “space” really well and someone who is an expert in social media.

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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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Time to Elf Yourself for the holidays

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Tweetie 2: The Best iPhone Twitter App | Main | Twitterese — The new way to speak online » November 11, 2009 Time to Elf Yourself for the holidays Social Media Marketing helps fuel holiday spirit It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Bells are jinglebelling. Carolers are caroling. And inboxes are filling with Elf Yourself videos from bored friends.

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How is Facebook Going to Make it’s 1st Billion Dollars?

Atom Thought

How can facebook make it. Do you know that there may be a social networking site which is bigger or almost equal to Facebook? And do you know it earns 2-3 times more than Facebook already? That site is Qzone (Tencent), and it earns over a billion dollars in revenues per annum. How did this happen? And what can Facebook do to catch up quickly? ‘I will cite a personal example- just before Diwali I was playing this awesome game on Ibibo.com called Teen Patti.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

Socialized

Everyone knows e-mail is dead. It’s been replaced by Facebook, Twitter and online collaboration. Well, not exactly. And a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal didn’t say so either. In fact, it indicated e-mail use was growing, just not as fast as social network adoption. And MySpace is for “young people&# right? Nope. Though the available data conflicts, there is nothing to indicate that MySpace users are predominantly younger than users of other social networks, and if anyt

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Use Social Media to Be Human: Tips from Michael Brito

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 Use Social Media to Be Human: Tips from Michael Brito Posted by Irene Koehler in Blogging , Business , Facebook , Social Media , Tip

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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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Twitter's Retweet feature (beta)

The Marketing Blog

Home About In the Media Basics of Search engine optimization (SEO) Entrepreneurial resources November 11, 2009.7:19 am Twitter’s Retweet feature (beta) Jump to Comments Many of you might have already seen this, but just-incase you haven’t here is the update. Finally ‘Twitter’ has come up with the ‘Retweet’ feature which changes: Current style of Retweeting via twitter Seeing retweets (there’s an all new way of seeing retweets) The Retweet announcement fr

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Using Social Media in a Brand Marketing Campaign

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » Using Social Media in a Brand Marketing Campaign Using Social Media in a Brand Marketing Campaign Written on December 1, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media 10 Comments - Leave a comment! Using social media in a brand marketing campaign can help make your brand more tangible.

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Making Lemonade

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Making Lemonade Written on November 30, 2009 by Justin Levy in documentary , video 14 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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True Social Media ROI is All About Integration

The Social Media Incubator

home about smi learning lab contact SMI is powered by seasoned professionals from C.E.L. Public Relations and Small Business Mavericks C.E.L. Public Relations Small Business Mavericks Loading Quotes. scan or click the QR code to see the packages we offer True Social Media ROI is All About Integration by admin on November 16, 2009 Not long ago, a client came and asked if we could “help her business go viral” by launching social media for her company.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Basically, a location-based application allows you to check in almost anywhere on the planet and broadcast that information. Generally you can post a note, or a photo, at the same time, associating it with the location.