Sat.Aug 21, 2010 - Fri.Aug 27, 2010

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Change, Change And More Change

Dave Fleet

The last few years have been wonderful for me, both personally and professionally. I’ve lived happily with my girlfriend, Caralin , for several years now, and I’ve enjoyed a rewarding career that has so far brought me more opportunities than I could have possibly hoped for. Today, I’m happy to announce the next step in both of those areas of my life.

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Study Shows Marketers Plan to Spend More on Social Media Programs

Harp Interactive

Highlights and Statistics of Social Media Usage by Brands. More Than 87% Will Increase Investment in the Next 12 Months. The following information is taken from a survey of 137 brand marketers and ad agency professionals that point to a significant investment in social media marketing programs in the next 12 months. Of the marketers surveyed: 63% have already implemented social media marketing programs, and. 87% plan to increase that investment in the next 12 months. 37% of marketers that are no

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing , Social Media > 3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement 3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement by Tamar Weinberg on August 25, 2010 Share If you’re doing social media for your business, there’s nothing better than to do it right.

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Five Productivity Tools for PR Pros

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Five Productivity Tools for PR Pros August 25th, 2010 Tweet A few months ago, I wrote a piece on communicating effectively with a virtual workforce for IABC’s monthly e-zine, CW Bulletin. You see, I’ve been there, done that.

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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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Personalities, Policies & Problems: Companies and Employees 2.0

Dave Fleet

The annual ritual is upon us – the submissions for next year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) are posted and the voting process has begun. (Actually, it began a little while back but – you may have noticed the silence recently – I was away on vacation). This year I’ve thrown my hat in the ring and submitted a SXSW 2011 panel proposal with Scott Stratten (UnMarketing), Chris Barger (General Motors) and Sarah White (HRM Direct) entitled Personalities, Policies & Proble

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Making the Leap: Why Companies Struggle with Social Media

Adam Cohen

How many people at your company are trained, equipped and empowered to talk to customers? If your organization is large, chances are the percentage of customer-facing people is smaller. How many customers does your company have? How about potential customers? No doubt the numbers stack up in a heavy ratio against people inside the company that are trained to engage them.

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The Social Media Policy – not just for the big players

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « YouTube Launches Charts of Top Videos 7 Important Steps to Great Business Communication » The Social Media Policy – not just for the big players Posted by admin Aug 25th, 2010 Tweet Blog post written by Georgina Coates who is Social Media Manager at UK based, integrated communications agency Kindred.

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Could AT&T kill the iPhone Brand?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

According to a study conducted by Gartner , the first quarter of 2010 witnessed a whopping 707 percent increase in Android sales. As a result, the sales of the Google Android OS-based smartphones have surpassed the sales of the Microsoft Windows Mobile-based handsets around the world. And this month I saw a stat that said the sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, that they have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record and it got me thinking.

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Crowdsourcing the Impact of Social Media on Non Profit Organizations

Direct Marketing Observations

Last week we had the pleasure to have Beth Kanter host our weekly tweetchat over at Hashtag social media. The subject was obviously about Non Profit Organizations and how social media can play favorably with them. This is the sweet spot for Beth and as a host, I have to say she was beyond amazing. She embodied all of the qualities you would want in someone engaged with their audience.

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How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back You have all of these great social sites but nobody knows about them! Here are some ways to drive people to your social sites and then keep them engaged. Online 1. Add Social Networking buttons to your email signature.

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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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7 Important Steps to Great Business Communication

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « The Social Media Policy – not just for the big players Using Social Media Monitoring to Improve Your Search Engine Marketing Relevance » 7 Important Steps to Great Business Communication Posted by Marlene Friis Aug 26th, 2010 Tweet Because of my interest in business communication, I have made some research on some basic, but very important steps within the field.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Can the financial return on expenditures for social media business activities– in marketing, PR, customer support, HR, product development or other areas — be accurately measured? Can social media costs be justified on the P&L, so that as belts get ever tighter in this stagnant economy, these projects and tasks can be spared the budget axe?

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Socialized Joins Social Media Informer August 25 Launch

Socialized

If you're a regular reader of this blog and you're very observant, you may have noticed the Social Media Informer badge on my right sidebar. I was asked to participate in this week's launch of this new site which looks to have a great strategy for aggregating and distributing social.

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What I've Learned About Blogging Based On A Year's Worth Of Data

Jason Yormark

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Blogging , Social Media , Wordpress / What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data | Subcribe via RSS What I’ve Learned About Blogging Based On A Year’s Worth Of Data August 25th, 2010 Posted in Blogging , Social Media , Wordpress Tweet Share I didn’t really get serious about blogging until the past year, and even then, I haven’t written as much as I would like.

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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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Twitter Tales – A Bunch of Twitter Cases

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Facebook Goes Live with New Video Channel Companies Embrace Social Media » Twitter Tales – A Bunch of Twitter Cases Posted by Anne Herngaard Aug 23rd, 2010 Tweet Do you need inspiration for how to use Twitter? The service itself has launched a new sub-site called Twitter Tales.

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What is the Strategy Behind This Email?

Direct Marketing Observations

I got this email today: Hello, My name is , and I write for the (Insert the name of something not even close to what I do) blog at. Would you be interested in receiving a guest post submission from me? What I had in mind was just coming up with an article on theme with your blog and sending it to you for your approval. I don’t have a specific topic in mind, so I’m happy to write on whatever topic you request, if you have a specific request.

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Weekly Roundup: A Chuckle Or Seven

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: A Chuckle Or Seven August 22nd, 2010 Tweet My friend Jill Foster posted this great tweet the other day. I thought it was a great goal. Only problem was, by the time the evening rolled around, I’d only had one really good laugh thus far.

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GroupTabs-Groupon Meets Foursquar

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe GroupTabs-Groupon Meets Foursquare by Justin on August 25, 2010 There is a new player in the location-based service market. GroupTabs is a startup that is being billed as a cross between Groupon and Foursquare. The idea is for a business to offer a deal if enough people check in to the location.

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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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Twitter Tales – A Bunch of Twitter Cases

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Facebook Goes Live with New Video Channel Companies Embrace Social Media » Twitter Tales – A Bunch of Twitter Cases Posted by Anne Herngaard Aug 23rd, 2010 Tweet Do you need inspiration for how to use Twitter? The service itself has launched a new sub-site called Twitter Tales.

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SEO and Social Media are Inextricably Joined at the Hip.

Direct Marketing Observations

Is it reputation management, perception management? Or search management? I was recently directed by Tom Martin to read an updated post by Rohit Bhargava on Social Media Optimization and while it did get me thinking again about something I had not given much thought to in a while, it, like many other blog posts, opens up another footlocker of thoughts.

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The MetricsMan Comes To #measurePR

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali The MetricsMan Comes To #measurePR August 27th, 2010 Tweet What’s a Twitter chat on measurement without a Metrics Man? Fortunately, Don Bartholomew of Fleishman-Hillard - whom you may know as @donbart on Twitter – will rectify that this coming Tuesday, when he joins us to chat about social media “ROI.&# Ah, ROI.

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Auto-Post Your Blog Posts to Digg « Saying It Social

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Auto-Post Your Blog Posts to Digg The new Digg lets you set it up so that your blog posts will auto post to Digg! How cool, right?! All you have to do is log in to Digg then go to your Settings and click on the menu item to “Import Feeds&#. Enter the URL of your Blog’s Feed and then you will be given a verification code to add to one of your blog posts so that Digg can verify your blog.

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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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YouTube Launches Charts of Top Videos

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Companies Embrace Social Media The Social Media Policy – not just for the big players » YouTube Launches Charts of Top Videos Posted by Marlene Friis Aug 24th, 2010 Tweet Recently, YouTube has announced that it will be featuring its top web videos in a new section on their site called YouTube Charts.

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The Ultimate Social Media Information Destination: Social Media Informer Launches

Webbiquity SMM

Want to stay up-to-date on the latest social media news and thought-leadership commentary without visiting a gazillion different sites, relying on an RSS feed (or someone else’s filter) that inevitably misses important news, or following aggregation sites that regurgitate the same over-exposed content from a handful of popular sites? Now you can, at Social Media Informer , a social media content hub launched today.

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YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Firebelly at Blog Indiana | Main | 5 Helpful Facebook Places for Business Articles » August 24, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: Checking In With Facebook Places People are calling it a FourSquare killer. People are calling it a Facebook killer (due to privacy concerns). Im not calling it anything until Ive spent more time with it.

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Open Source Web Management and Design Tools

Idaconcpts

Everything a web designer needs for free: Designing and managing a website need not be an expensive affair. There are several useful free and open source applications available for download that allow you to do everything from designing the graphics for your site to editing blog posts. This list is not comprehensive, but rather provides the categories for each step of website management, as well as open source examples of tools you can use.

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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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YouTube Launches Charts of Top Videos

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « Companies Embrace Social Media The Social Media Policy – not just for the big players » YouTube Launches Charts of Top Videos Posted by Marlene Friis Aug 24th, 2010 Tweet Recently, YouTube has announced that it will be featuring its top web videos in a new section on their site called YouTube Charts.

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Track the Online Metrics that Matter and Sales Isn't One of Them.

Saying It Social

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Track the Online Metrics that Matter and Sales Isn’t One of Them Unless you have all the clients you could possibly want right now you’ve probably heard you should be online marketing. That’s all well and good but how do you know if you’re doing the right thing or if what you are doing is actually benefiting your business in some way?

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Help Me Find My Next Job?

Ari Herzog

Following in the spirit of my friends Anna Barcelos and Dave Atkins who each seek new jobs (please click their names to see what they’re looking for, should you be able to assist them), I’d like to tell you what I’m doing… I shouldn’t need to tell you that I live and breathe social media. This blog attests to that statement; and your reading, sharing, and commenting is why I write a breadth of articles about the social web every week.

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Email blasts – the right (and not annoying) way to do them

Idaconcpts

Elysabeth Teeko likes to dabble in all kinds of blogging. She especially loves to stalk new tech and internet marketing news, as well as study interior decorating and other home-esque subjects. You can find her on twitter; @Elysateek. Email blasts- the right (and not annoying) way to do them. Email blasts, the epicenter of the direct electronic marketing world, are a popular tool that many businesses use.

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Using Social Media Monitoring to Improve Your Search Engine.

Mindjumpers

Blog About Clients Cases Tribesourcing Video People & Contact Bloggers « 7 Important Steps to Great Business Communication Spacebook and Danceroulette Music Video » Using Social Media Monitoring to Improve Your Search Engine Marketing Relevance Posted by admin Aug 27th, 2010 Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant.