Sat.Jan 08, 2011 - Fri.Jan 14, 2011

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5 Top Resources to Back Up your Social Media Presence!

Harp Interactive

Backing up your social media information is helpful for personal use and a no brainer for any business with an active social presence! Not only is backing up your information simple, and many times free…it will save you time when trying to locate information you’ve previously shared or better yet – let you restore your entire network if your information were to be lost.

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Quora? Verdict: Awesome.

SocialFish

By now you’ve heard of Quora , and probably started messing with it. I’ve heard all kinds of opinions about it, good and bad , including concerns about its exploding popularity in the last couple of weeks. I love this article from Techcrunch about how MG Siegler is using it to find blog story ideas. I can see myself using it like that a LOT, thought of a few this morning based on question threads I was browsing.

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Great Case on Social Media Turned Into a Bad One by The Traditional Media

Mindjumpers

Tweet It all started with Lara – a user of social media, unhappy with her wireless company, making a complaint about it on Twitter, the company returned to her and fixed the problem. It is a great story of customer service on social media which one should think about. Lara was contacted by a journalist from Newspaq that wanted to share her story, but suddenly this was made with a total different angle: Big Brother watching you, invasion of privacy by companies and Lara the actual source to the w

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Twitter Cheat Sheet

Josh S Peters

Today I was speaking with one of my coaching clients and he asked me “Is there a Twitter cheat sheet anywhere I can get?&# In TwittFaced (Your Toolkit for Understanding and Maximizing Social Media) my co-author and I cover Twitter basics and ideals extensively, but I have yet to do that here.Well friends, that’s what this post is. The Twitter cheat sheet is a quick and dirty primer on Twitter.

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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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5 Top Resources to Back Up your Social Media Presence!

Harp Interactive

The data you upload and share is inherently personal to you, your brand and your business.though you don't actually own the information. It all lives on the "cloud," and if any of those services were to crash, you could lose everything you've ever contributed to the communities.

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News Feed Optimization (NFO) is the new SEO!

Buzz Marketing for Technology

One of the big mistakes I often see with companies when they are setting up a Page on Facebook is they spend more time planning “the wedding than they do the marriage” as I like to say. They spend all of the effort to get the page perfect and have it be in compliance with their corporate guidelines but they have no real plans for how they are going to grow their base of Fans with rich engaging content.

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How To Easily Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo

Almost Savvy

Yes, I finally gave in. I had resisted the call to “upgrade&# my profile on Facebook for several weeks. Calling it an “upgrade&# didn’t fool me. I heard the buzz and read the complaints. Many of those who moved to the new format weren’t happy. I knew, though, that my days of being able to remain on the old profile design were numbered.

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5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 5 Ways To Spice Up Your WordPress Blog January 14th, 2011 Tweet Part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series One of the things that I’ve been doing over the last couple of years, ever since I started this blog, was to play with plugins and ways in which it could look more visually appealing. ‘Cos it’s not just what you read, it’s how what

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Eleven Digital Trends to Watch In 2011

SocialFish

Out of the many social media-related trends and predictions posts I’ve been skimming lately, this is by far the one that makes the most sense to me from a social business standpoint. Eleven Digital Trends to Watch in 2011. View more presentations from Edelman Digital. Here are the headlines from David Armano’s post about the slides on Logic+Emotion , followed by my personal interpretation from the association industry standpoint: Attentionomics - Marketers begin to realize the value

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Winners of Mashable Awards

Mindjumpers

Tweet The 6th of January, Mashable held the event of Mashable Awards Gala. It is the 4 th annual Award show, and it was held at Cirque du Soleil Zumanity stage, Las Vegas. Mashable Awards is made to recognize the best online communities and services, and it was hosted by comedian Baratunde Thurston. This year, the contest received a record number of votes for the nominees.

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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 Community Management: An Interview with Kathryn Peck of EA SPORTS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Almost exactly a year ago, I observed Kathryn Peck represent EA SPORTS on Twitter. Her community outreach on behalf of Electronic Arts was amazing and her engagement with customers gives all of us lessons to live by. I knew that as a community manager myself, I had to ask her about her own experiences with social media within a company that seemed to have been an early adopter of sorts in the social media community management realm.

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And So I Dance Again

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali And So I Dance Again January 8th, 2011 Tweet Yesterday, I pulled out my dancing shoes (jazz) and went off for a Broadway jazz class… after decades. Ouch, it almost hurts to write that word, “decades.&# Lemme tell ya, when you haven’t been in organized dance for a while, your body does not remember it well. “What?

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media? Optimize company news for SEO benefit? Effectively connect with bloggers and other key online influencers in your industry?

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Twitter Cheat Sheet

Josh S Peters

Today I was speaking with one of my coaching clients and he asked me “Is there a Twitter cheat sheet anywhere I can get?&# In TwittFaced (Your Toolkit for Understanding and Maximizing Social Media) my co-author and I cover Twitter basics and ideals extensively, but I have yet to do that here.Well friends, that’s what this post is. The Twitter cheat sheet is a quick and dirty primer on Twitter.

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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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Upcoming social media events in DC

SocialFish

Not one, but two events that I’d love to attend are just around the corner– The Social Graph Clinic DC , and What’s Next DC. As it happens, both are taking place in Washington, DC at George Washington University. So get ready to mark your calendar, and take advantage of the SocialFish discount codes. The Social Graph Clinic DC. Thursday, January 20 from 9:00 am-5:00 pm.

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YouTube Tuesday: The Facebook Song

Firebelly

No, you won’t find The Facebook Song by Lynnea Malley on iTunes, but you will find it on YouTube. We think it’s sure to be a hit, however (at least online). What do you think? [Video URL: [link] ].

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Facebook's secret groups | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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How To Get Your Blog Project Approved

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. You’ve reflected. You’ve steadied your nerves. You may have decided that this is the year you finally run that marathon, visit Paris… or get your boss to listen to your idea about launching a blog.

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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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Top SocialFish posts of 2010

SocialFish

Just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who reads, shares, comments on, tweets and otherwise supports our SocialFishing blog. Here’s to more great conversations to come in 2011! We have some great stuff in the works, including a new Open Community case study series by Deirdre Reid , and an interview series where we’ll be talking to several top association CEO’s about the ideas in our little book.

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The Social Side of Business (Slides)

Firebelly

This past Monday, Firebelly VP Chantelle Flannery presented The Social Side of Business at an Executive Women of Indianapolis event. We wanted to shared her slides from her presentation. See them below: [ Slidedeck URL: [link] ].

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How to Approach Business Social Media Strategically

Webbiquity SMM

A big part of the appeal of social media is its simplicity. Any teenager can set up a Facebook page and start sharing status updates with their friends. Any mom or dad can set one up to share pictures of their kids (and keep tabs on their teenagers). Anyone can record an event with a Flip and upload it to YouTube. Anyone can get on Twitter and follow Ashton or Oprah.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Alien Baby

Socialized

The origin of last week's Facebook shutdown rumor is no less a prestigious news organization than the Weekly World News. Instead of reading the blogs about the scam, I Googled the item and went straight to the source so I could form my own opinions. I was stunned by how.

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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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What Does Fully Engaged Mean?

Direct Marketing Observations

Earlier this week, Ants Eye View posted The Cisco Social Media Listening Journey. It was interesting to see Cisco’s evolution. But I was struck more with the final stage of the listening journey. Food for thought. How fully engaged is your company? How fully engaged are your teams?

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Feature Friday: Is Social Networking Making Us Less Social?

Ari Herzog

The following is a feature article by Christopher Roberts. Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, LinkedIn, MySpace, Foursquare… These are examples of social networking sites, but you knew that. However, have you ever thought of the impact they have on you? Are you better off because of them? Of course you are! You can contact friends almost anywhere, at any time.

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Friday fun: Noise to Signal’s 2010 in Review

SocialFish

Love love love Rob Cottingham, who did the fantabulous cartoons in Open Community. Comic genius and all around super cool guy. More here , including a free downloadable 2011 calendar ! Yay.

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Looking Into The Social Media Past

Firebelly

In preparation for the New Year, we’ve been working on transferring our Firebelly blog from Typepad to the beautiful WordPress content management system. While working on cleaning up the posts and transfering them over, I came across quite a few “gems&# of posts from the past. It’s amazing how some things we didn’t even know about in 2007 or 08 became big news by 2010.

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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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The propensity to Repeat in Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

It’s not just social media. Create a killer product, expect knock-offs. I used to say that you truly haven’t made it until you have been knocked off. It happens with consumer products, food products, you name it. Imitation is the best form of flattery right? Monopolies in social media? Facebook has an argument, but that’s about it.

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4 Steps to Segment Social Media Traffic in Google Analytics

Idaconcpts

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. The graph shows traffic trends; the pie-chart and tables show what is driving the trends. “Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. “Referring Sites&# shows visits from people who clicked to your site from another site. “Search Engines&# show

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Game theory FTW!

SocialFish

This is fairly geeky but I *love* this slide deck about gamification theory and tactics ( hat tip to Chris Carfi ). It’s long but oh so worth it. Jon Aleckson did a great session at #Tech10 about gaming (check out his article 5 ways Associations can use online games ). Anyone trying out game-related stuff? What do you think of this? Gamification Workshop 2010.

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Too. Many. Channels.

Social Media Marketing

A little Friday fun. You'd think it would be easier to keep in touch with your contacts these days thanks to the many ways we have to communicate. Phone, email, texting , IM, Twitter @replies and DMs, Facebook messages - and let's not forget about good old fashioned written notes. But somehow, we've made it more complicated. Everyone has his or her own preference of how they're predisposed to communicate and be contacted, and it's a challenge, to say the least, to manage all of these channels an

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6 Critically Undervalued Social Media Success Metrics

Convince & Convert

People who say social media isn’t measurable aren’t looking very hard. The truth is that there are at least 25 viable metrics you can use to evaluate the success of your social media efforts. The challenge isn’t measurability, it’s knowing which measures are meaningful. Here are the 6 critically undervalued social media success metrics. Daily Story Feedback.

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