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57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources

Dave Fleet

Over time I’ve found myself doing more and more foundational work for organizations looking to dip their toes into social media. One of the key elements of this work, in my opinion, is creating a social media policy that fits well with the organization’s goals, culture and risk tolerance. But where to start? As it happens, lots of organizations publish their social media guidelines online, ready for you to review and use yourself.

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Understanding Word-of-Mouth Marketing: 5 Reasons Why People Share.

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « The Facts, The Stats And The Story About Youtube How To Align Social Media With Marketing Activities » Understanding Word-of-Mouth Marketing: 5 Reasons Why People Share brand Stories Posted by admin Jul 30th, 2010 Tweet This guest blog is written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced interactive marketing journalist and blogger.

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Twitter Badges For Brands Who Want to Avoid Narcissism

Adam Cohen

While Facebook is mailing signs to businesses, I’m pretty sure no one is helping them understand Twitter – for free anyways. After all, Twitter is for narcissists , right? It occurred to me the other day that the phrase, “Follow us&# or “Follow me on Twitter&# is getting things off to the wrong start. Businesses should all aspire to connect with people who are engaged and interested in conversation, creating a value exchange – Twitter is just one of many tools to

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The Difference Between Gifts and Choices

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Difference Between Gifts and Choices Written on July 24, 2010 by Justin Levy in personal , video 2 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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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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Writing – Critical For Communicators, But It’s Not Everything

Dave Fleet

Liam Fitzpatrick wrote a controversial post earlier this month, saying that he thought writing skills are over-rated for communicators: “To be honest I don’t think being a good writer matters – I’ve met plenty of great comms people who couldn’t write to save their lives and I know a few fantastic writers who I’d never trust to give communications advice.&#.

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Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Are You Missing Out On Opportunities To Connect With And Engage Your Stakeholders? Using Wordpress Like a Pro » Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar Posted by Jonas Klit Nielsen Jul 27th, 2010 Tweet Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar Look at me!

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Are Blog Comments Dead? | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 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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Altimeter Report Provides Facebook Page Guidelines, Benchmarks

Dave Fleet

In the latest of a series of practical and helpful resources for marketers, Altimeter Group has released a free report entitled The 8 Success Criteria for Facebook Page Marketing. The 8 Success Criteria For Facebook Page Marketing. The report, based on input from 34 industry vendors and consulting agencies, outlines – you guessed it – eight criteria for determining the success of Facebook pages from companies’ perspectives, and in doing so provides a useful set of general guide

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Can an Unknown Brand Become Word of Mouth? | Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Strategic Initiatives to Engage in Social Media Within the Hospitality Industry Are You Missing Out On Opportunities To Connect With And Engage Your Stakeholders? » Can an Unknown Brand Become Word of Mouth? Posted by Sara Hansson Jul 26th, 2010 Tweet Social media has been used as a channel for finding the audience and giving them something to talk about.

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant | Subcribe via RSS 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant July 27th, 2010 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share Social Media has certainly become THE trend over the past year or so, and everyone and their sister is jumping on board.

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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 Top 10 Ways Social Media Confuses You

Direct Marketing Observations

Some of us are tasked everyday with telling people how great social media is and how transformational it can be. Do you want to know why it can be so tough for us to sell someone on it? All someone has to do is a common search on some common perceptions of social media and you get the following. 10 Ways Social Media Is Changing Our Lives. Google, Yahoo, Bing Say Twitter is Stupid.

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3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer | Main | Ball Memorial Hospitals Facebook Nightmare » July 30, 2010 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week Below are the top 3 stories that rocked the social media world this week. World's Oldest Twitter User Dies at 104 Ivy Bean, the Internet-famous centenarian heralded as world's oldest Twitter user, passed away last night at her retirement home in Branford England.

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Are You Missing Out On Opportunities To Connect With And Engage.

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Can an Unknown Brand Become Word of Mouth? Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar » Are You Missing Out On Opportunities To Connect With And Engage Your Stakeholders? Posted by admin Jul 27th, 2010 Tweet Guest blog by Maria Hilden , Business Development Manager with a background in communications and public relations.

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5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant | jasonyormark.com

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media / 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant | Subcribe via RSS 5 Ways To Become Social Media Relevant July 27th, 2010 Posted in Social Media Tweet Share Social Media has certainly become THE trend over the past year or so, and everyone and their sister is jumping on board.

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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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The Auto DM

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe The Auto DM by Justin on July 28, 2010 Let’s say you’re attending a social function at which you meet a lot of new people. Do you greet each person the same way? Do you actually say, “Hi, pleasure to meet you. Please be sure to check out my site” and then spout off the web address?

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YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Social Media News: Top 5 Stories of the Week | Main | 3 Stories That Rocked The Social Media World This Week » July 27, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: The Social Network Trailer The Social Network , aka "The Facebook Movie," hits theaters October 1st. The film is about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and how the popular social networking site got its start.

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Using Wordpress Like a Pro

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Old Spice Spoof nails it! New Spice – Study like a Scholar, Scholar The Facts, The Stats And The Story About Youtube » Using Wordpress Like a Pro Posted by Tehneyat Waseem Jul 28th, 2010 Tweet I came across a brilliant article by Mashable about 11 Ways to Speed Up WordPress.

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Groupon 2.0: Deal Personalization

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Deals , Social Media / Groupon 2.0: Deal Personalization | Subcribe via RSS Groupon 2.0: Deal Personalization July 29th, 2010 Posted in Deals , Social Media Tweet Share I’m a big fan of the local deal craze. It’s really such a great concept and simple. One great deal a day, take it or leave it.

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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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What happened to the Ah-Ha moment?

Direct Marketing Observations

Do you remember the first time you got a blog comment? Or the first time someone followed you on Twitter. Pretty cool wasn’t it? All of a sudden this static world of reading and consumming media changed-overnight. All of a sudden we all had voices. I remember the first time I connected with an old friend on Facebook. It immediately showed me the power of the platform and it’s infinite possibilities.

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Professional blogging for dummies | Sherrilynne Starkie

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How to increase your blog readership and Twitter following

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » How to increase your blog readership and Twitter following How to increase your blog readership and Twitter following Written on July 29, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 1 Comment - Leave a comment! Interact –verb (used without object) : to act one upon another.

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Social Media Drinking Games

Janet Fouts

I’m sick and tired of social media and I don’t want to talk about it! Those were the first words out of my friends mouth the other evening. I’d just come back from a trip and we were re-connecting over drinks. Harsh words for somebody like me to hear since social media is interwoven pretty tightly in our lives these days. She went on to rant about how social media was ruining her life.

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

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness July 28th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We’ve talked in the past about helping vs. selling , and that the former approach takes you a

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How to Subscribe to Facebook Business/Fan Page Posts in Your.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Subscribe to Facebook Business/Fan Page Posts in Your Favorite Feed Reader Hint: You can also use these tactics to get the RSS Feed URL of your page if you wish to import your Facebook Page’s feed on your blog or other sites! View this document on Scribd Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit July 30, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Facebook | Facebook , facebook page rss feed url , facebook busines

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Increase Traffic and Authority by Listing Your Blog

Kikolani

There are a lot of places to list your blog for getting the maximum exposure, as well as places where you can receive blog reviews that may be the first impression a visitor may come across for your site. Here are some to add your blog or submit your site to in order to increase your blog traffic and reputation. For Reviews. Want to get reviews and ratings for your writing skills and your blog?

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Male PRs twice as likely to earn ?50k+ | Sherrilynne Starkie

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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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Search Engine Optimization: Why Image Alt Tags are Important

Bill Hartzer

This is only one SEO tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips, like this one , are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. In fact, this search engine optimization tip is pretty simple, but may take a long time to complete: check the image alt tags on your web pages.

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What’s After the iPad

Idaconcpts

Email this to a friend? Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Facebook. Tweet This! Share this on LinkedIn. Post on Google Buzz. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Reddit. Digg this! Share this on Technorati. Tags: Apple Apple iPad iPad Mac.

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How I Organize the Blogs I Read

Ari Herzog

In the wake of Amber Naslund rebuilding the blogs she reads and Justin Kownacki curating his favorites, I thought it logical to explain how I organize blogs I read for maximum productivity. My categorization is divided into frequencies and subjects. Frequencies include blogs I read daily, weekly, and am watching. My daily category currently includes two voices: Seth Godin and danah boyd.

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Are You Growing Enough Voices

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Growing Enough Voices July 27th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet I’m back from my family vacation in Canada.

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How to Drive Word of Mouth in B2B Online Marketing

Bill Hartzer

By Erika Penzer Kerekes. What’s the best way for B2B companies who market to small businesses to drive word of mouth? Here are some tips from marketing experts Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends and John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing , who spoke at the Corporate Executive Board’s Enterprise Council on Small Businesses Summit last June: – Be human.

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