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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

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You can come to your own conclusions on that but here are some more qualifying questions that might help you decide and determine true social media influence. Do they enhance your experience? Do they engage? Do they share your content? Do you get the sense that they don’t even pay attention to their feed? Are they a SME? Who do they work for?

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The Relevance of my Online Relationships has Risen.

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I think so, there is definite relevance to our existing relationships when doing business. Case in point, I use my Twitter followers and also the people I follow on Twitter as a de facto RSS feed for information about the work I do and the research I need to do my job.

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What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

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The latest case in point: Facebook Deals Facebook Deals has been designed to let the site’s 600 million plus users easily share their shopping experiences with one another. The deals may show up on a users’ news feed, or in ads on the dashboard on the left. Users can buy the deal with a credit card, or share it or like it.

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The Reality of Social Currency

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One of the tougher jobs on any given days in the digital space is the curation and or the creation of good content. It’s everywhere and sometimes it doesn’t matter what RSS feeds ot Flip Boards or whatever you use to find it, it can slip through the cracks.

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The Conundrum of Content

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So that means you’re just going to pull in everyone’s RSS feeds? Or does that mean you’re just going to scrape good content from others? Either choice is not a good one. Though I’m a proponent of supplementing one’s own content with perhaps a national feed, it’s not a good idea to push the content of others.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

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It’s Snap, Reddit, Instagram, Twitch, Tik-Tok, We-Chat, and What’s App, in addition to a host of newcomers such as GETTR, Discord, Truth Social, and Clubhouse. In fact, chances are, on any given day, a headline that you see in your email, or online, or in ‘your feed”, was fueled by social and you may not even know it.

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Is Twitter really working for you? 10 questions

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I was reading an article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine titled, “I Tweet, Therefore I am&# in which the author Peggy Orenstein ruminates. How much, was I shaping my Twitter feed, and how much was Twitter shaping me?

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