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Social Mediators 7 – Eqentia – Social Media Monitoring Tool For Enterprises

Dave Fleet

Eqentia is a social media startup headquartered in Toronto, Canada. In this week’s episode of Social Mediators , Eqentia’s CEO and Founder, William Mougayar , joins Joe Thornley and me for a discussion about Eqentia, what it does, who it’s aimed at and future plans for it. Eqentia is positioning itself as a team-based knowledge dashboard that can be managed by one or two users, freeing others from the need to set up and refine searches.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging > How Young is Too Young? How Young is Too Young? by Tamar Weinberg on June 10, 2010 Share I started blogging at age 20. Glen , too, got an early start. Today, there are young bloggers who have their own websites and blogs. Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities.

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Social Media Does Not Exist

Adam Cohen

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. – The Usual Suspects (1995). I had an interesting discussion recently about Social media strategies. When discussing inputs to a social media strategy, an admitted “social media skeptic&# replied that she thought there shouldn’t be a need for them; rather that social media strategies were really just customer relationship strategies.

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B2B Marketers Fate Rests in the Hands of a Few

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At the recent ITSMA Marketing Leadership forum I was stunned by a presentation given by Sean Geehan CEO of the Geehan Group author of the upcoming book the B2B Executive Playbook. The big eye opener for me was – B2B marketers are always tasked with getting net new customers when in reality their existing customer base is their most important source of revenue and referrals.

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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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To Thine Own Audience Be True

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » To Thine Own Audience Be True To Thine Own Audience Be True Written on June 9, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 2 Comments - Leave a comment! Part of the fun of being a communication professional today is the variety of platforms available to share information.

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News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. But Facebook Pages remain a key audience development and content promotion opportunity for publishers so it is important to make the most of them.

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Minnesota’s Social Media Event of the Summer

Webbiquity SMM

If your small to midsized business is struggling with questions about how to create an effective social media strategy, use social media tools most effectively, make the best use of your time on social media, generate results or other related issues, mark your calendar for this upcoming one-day social media and online marketing event. On June 24, SCORE will be hosting its Social Media & Internet Marketing Boot Camp in Bloomington.

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BP Chief’s Cleanup Commitment is Good Communications

Socialized

From a communications standpoint, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward’s statements today on BBC television were absolutely perfect. This is an amazing PR case study and one thousands of communications professionals can learn from. To see it as such in no way diminishes the horror BP has unleashed in the Gulf, or the role that Hayward may have played in letting that happen.

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Leveraging Twitter: From Tools to Tweetchats

Direct Marketing Observations

Below is a deck that I did for a Brighttalk Webinar this morning. There just may be some sites in here that you don’t know about. Tags: Twitter social media marc meyer microblogging brighttalk.

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United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media.

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral! | Main | Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items » June 10, 2010 United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media Efforts We want to congratulate United Way of Central Indiana  who was recognized for their social marketing efforts in the special Corporate Citizenship insert of the Indianapolis Business Journal this week.  The article, Appealin

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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 for Sales

Webbiquity SMM

One of the challenges in measuring the ROI of social media marketing is that the use of social networking and social sharing tools isn’t confined to the marketing group. Social media is being used in multiple functions across the enterprise, from product development (e.g. through co-creation and crowdsourcing ) and customer service ( Best Buy and Comcast for example) to human resources (outstanding HR tweeps: Sharlyn Lauby and Alicia Arenas ) and sales groups.

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Engagement is Mantra of Social Media, Why Not Mantra of Schools, too?

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » Engagement is Mantra of Social Media, Why Not Mantra of Schools, too? Engagement is Mantra of Social Media, Why Not Mantra of Schools, too? Written on June 11, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 2 Comments - Leave a comment! Guest post by by Ivana Sendecka For l ast ten and half months I am closely watching trends of educational system , both in my homeland ( Slovakia ) an

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Most Twitter users don’t tweet-Is that a problem?

Direct Marketing Observations

Twitter COO Dick Costolo who was speaking at the Conversational Media Summit in New York City, offered up that Twitter is now attracting 190 million visitors per month and generating 65 million Tweets a day. 65 million tweets a day. That’s pretty cool. But it’s this next sentence from Costolo that caught my eye. Most users , says Costolo, d on’t Tweet at all, but rather use Twitter as a consumption media.

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YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral!

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Flickr Friday: Sexist Profiling on Twitter | Main | United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media Efforts » June 08, 2010 YouTube Tuesday: I Can Make You Go Viral! Brian, the " social media guru " is back. This time he is promising that his months of experience, coupled with an unpaid intern, will make your video go viral.

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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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Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special by Justin on June 9, 2010 Last week, I wrote about Foursquare’s widespread growth and how some organizations are trying to utilize the location based social network. Now a locally owned Lawrence business has thrown its hat into the ring, er…square.

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On Perception

Social Media Marketing

Advertising man Rory Sutherland raises some great points worth pondering in this TED Talk from October 2009. He notes that most problems are problems of perception. How many problems in life can be solved by tinkering with perception rather than the hard work of trying to change reality? From the Eurostar train to placebos, the origin of the potato as a staple of our diet to iron jewelry, denim, breakfast cereal, Coca-Cola and even social networking, Sutherland takes a different look at how prob

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Social media manners | Sherrilynne Starkie

Sherrilynne Starkie

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TwitterSays winners

Josh S Peters

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » TwitterSays winners TwitterSays winners Written on June 8, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 0 Comments - Leave a comment! Alright TwitterSays fans, here’s the day you’ve all been waiting for. It’s time to unveil the winners of the book packages!

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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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Lewis Howes discusses obtaining #1 ranking on LinkedIn

Freelance Social Media

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Lewis Howes discusses obtaining #1 ranking on LinkedIn by cinta5 on June 10, 2010 New on the Social Media Pocket Guide iphone app , LinkedIn expert Lewis Howes discusses 5 ways to get the #1 ranking on LinkedIn search. About the author Jacinta wrote 70 articles on this blog.

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Spirited Discussions in Cafes and Pubs

Socialized

Earlier this week I found myself in a room full of executives debating the proper pronunciation of the word “innovative.&# This was a fairly global group, with a couple of people from the U.K., one from Germany, a couple from the U.S. and so on. The discussion soon strayed to other words like advertisement and negotiate. This took me back to a time 25 years ago when I sat in a pub in London with five guys talking about word meanings and origins.

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Protect Your Online Privacy: Say NO to Ad Cookies

Ari Herzog

Every time you visit a new website you run the risk of a cookie (a text file with aggregate interest- or activity-based behavioral information, usually sparked by submitting an online form) being secretly placed in your browser. Sometimes the website has a privacy policy that tells you this, sometimes it doesn’t. Over time, if you never flush the cookies out of your system, they build up to the point that when you visit a website you don’t think you visited before, the cookie is acti

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It's Time for Real-Time

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 It’s Time for Real-Time June 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet When I was a kid, I set a few goals: Having a laundry chute (I’m easily amused) Having a pool table Owning my own c

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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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I Invented Facebook » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Ideas vs. Execution: The Facebook Fiasco Ideas vs. Execution: The Facebook Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on September 4, 2007 Share I’m getting a bit frustrated with the hundreds of posts that speak about individuals who claimed to invent Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg.

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#107 Stop Spending Money, Promotion Techniques from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and The IPad

Taylor Marek

In the Basement Edition! No more dorm rooms for me, I'm heading to Taiwan in August! Stop Spending Money, Promote the FIFA World Cup, and learn about the IPad! Listen NOW! In the Basement Edition!No more dorm rooms for me, I'm heading to Taiwan in August!Enjoy this episode, feel free to leave comments! Links Mentioned: [link] ([link] [link] ([link] [link] ([link] [link] ([link] Finances: Stop Spending Money!

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Google Removes Date from Google Webmaster Tools Link Data

Bill Hartzer

Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. They have removed the date that is reported when they report the links to your website. If you are familiar with search engine optimization , then you already know that one of the big essential parts of the whole entire search engine optimization process is linking. Just so you know, when I say “linking&# , I am referring to getting links from other web sites to your web site.

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « United Way of Central Indiana Recognized for their Social Media Efforts | Main | Wendys "Treat it Forward" on Facebook, Twitter & Foursquare for Fathers Day Frosty Weekend » June 11, 2010 Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items Do social media citizens hate BP for more than just the oil spill?

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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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Simple On-Page Tag Optimization for Bloggers

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Tola Famakinwa, SEO Blogger. Coming from an SEO background, it’s been quite a journey learning how to blog. Heck, I’m pretty much still on the road if you ask me! As much as SEO is highly related to Blogging I’m starting to understand that they are two different things. However, I know that a lot of the knowledge I’ve learnt from SEO has helped with my blogging.

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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 Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed June 7th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Yes, nice guys can finish first.

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Employee or Entrepreneur?

Taylor Marek

Home About Contact Archives Testimonials Speaking Podcast Chat LIVE Social Media Vault My Inner Circle Plugins eBook Hire Me Employee or Entrepreneur? June 7, 2010 by Taylor Marek Understand this. You are NOT destined to be both. You will either be an employee or an entrepreneur for the rest of your life. You cannot live in both worlds. Do also understand this.

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Ayan Sen on Making Money Online

Ari Herzog

The following is a guest interview with Ayan Sen, a 21-year-old internet entrepreneur. He lives in Canada and blogs about making money online. When did you start blogging? I have been blogging since January 2009, when I started my first website on steps to create a website. I then began a project at twitnine.com ; and later at get-free-web-traffic.com.

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Influencers and Social Media Experts

Laurel Papworth

There’s a lot of content out there and a lot of people creating stuff. How do you know who to pay attention to and who’s just mucking around? Remember, even a no friend nellie can drag you onto the front pages of the Saturday newspaper if they write right, but in the main, it pays to know if someone is actually an influencer or not. Oh and if they tick the following criteria in the field of social media-ness, then they are social media experts.