Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 27, 2012

These days, it moves really quickly… we now get to know about earthquakes around the world on social media platforms even before the news reaches broadcasters. According to a Mckinsey report , social media enables a consumer’s decision-making journey. Image: iambents via Flickr, CC 3.0.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This paragraph comprises the first words published on this blog since I asked for your opinions on blogging frequency seven days ago. Others wrote me they appreciated my friend request despite being unfriended in the past, which goes to show people use social media differently. Understand Social Media in 3 Words.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 12, 2011

Backing up your social media information is helpful for personal use and a no brainer for any business with an active social presence! The good news…backing up your businesses social media accounts can save time, stress and potentially lost business, plus it’s simple and in most cases, costs nothing!

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

So given that you have already interacted via social media, I don’t think it’s too much to say, “I’d love to learn a little more about <your company>… would you have 20-30 minutes for me to say “hello” to you in person over coffee? Image: naunasse via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 31, 2012

Would you agree that social media is faster than seismic waves? To me, this incident exemplifies how badly we are hooked on social media. That said, is social media all that bad? Multiple instances in the recent past tell us that social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have become lifesavers.

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Adam Cohen

JUNE 8, 2010

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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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 21, 2012

When it comes to staying on top of social media, one of the big challenges we have is to find the social media tools that will help us achieve a happy medium between curating, listening, engaging and producing content. as much as I could, what I do find very useful, outside of the publisher, etc., ” 1.

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SocialFish

APRIL 7, 2011

While giving a webinar, Managing the Risks of Social Media , for Higher Logic , I got an unexpected question: “Why do we need a social media policy?” Of course you need a social media policy. Every social media practitioner ( Maddie, Lindy , and me to name a few) will tell you that you need one.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Such is the challenge I’ve been recently tasked with: not just finding out what social media people are using around the world, but how they’re using it, why and when. Image: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center via Flickr, CC 2.0. It turns out that some people are less than trusting of social media (for shame!)

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 21, 2012

Just one of the many interesting factoids our group was given when the Regina Police Service (RPS) sent its social media officer, Kaeli Madill, to talk to us about all things Twitter and Facebook. RPS updates their social media sites every day – once in the morning and again in the afternoon.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 24, 2015

How can you track your social media efforts to ensure that your strategy is up to par? This week’s roundup introduces you to some best practices for social media metrics. 5 Social Media Metrics You Can Stop Tracking Yesterday. From likes to leads: The new metrics for B2B social selling.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It is also fascinating to see volunteers across the globe helping this community grow… there are people who are involved in growing its social media presence, working on SEO, volunteers organizing local meet-ups regularly to build the community… all-in-all, this is the first such social network for sustainability that I have come across.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 11, 2012

Social media listening. Social media monitoring. Social media tracking. Social media intelligence. There are many descriptions of how we can use social media as a listening tool , to complement (or replace) our more interactive approach where we converse too. Challenge on.

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The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 11, 2015

It’s not often that there’s a new feature worth talking about at Flickr. And it seems to have been so long that Flickr’s marketing team dropping it into a particularly bare email, giving it just two lines. Flickr allowing video sharing changes that. But it’s actually quite interesting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Here are six ways to start injecting the Valentine’s Day spirit into your social media routine. Take #3 further and write a comment on a blog published by someone you don’t like … but whose post makes sense. Image: leeerickson2050 via Flickr, CC 2.0. Hopefully this list will get you started.

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SocialFish

MARCH 18, 2011

Associations continue to embrace social, ranging from those learning how to others deep into analyzing their results. But according to my social media buds, they still get lots of questions from clients about its risks. Your association needs a media liability policy. Media Exposures. Media Liability Insurance.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 8, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. What''s next for social?

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

So I’m taking advantage of WUL to shine the social media spotlight on them. Image: photommo via Flickr, CC 2.0. I got to know Adam several years ago through social media, and then encountered him and His Lovely Wife (he doesn’t capitalize it, I do) in Orlando not long thereafter. Jodi Echakowitz.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 23, 2014

Image: Depone via Flickr, CC 2.0. Daniel Newman explains how your business can use social media content to drive customers to your product. Be Your Own Publisher on Social Media: 8 Brands that Kill It. Resources Shonali Burke Weekly Roundup blogging content online publishing ugc user generated content'

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 29, 2012

Social media and the rise of self-serve content requires that we actually attempt to fulfill the decades-old promise of 1:1 marketing – winning hearts and minds a few at a time with unprecedented relevancy and transparency and humanization and speed. Flickr Photo by Doc_Brown. The Social Media People Problem.

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 5, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Cool Social Media Tools. Social Media Monitoring Tools. Wildfire Social Media Monitor.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach? But I’m here to look at what really matters – which team has more reach via social media? And good luck to both teams in Super Bowl XLIV.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2011

When the ebook was published, I looked at it immediately, and I thought Kellye and Jenny did a great job of it. Image: Theen Moy via Flickr, CC 2.0. It’s a fabulous ebook that walks you through the most important elements to include in your consulting agreements, gives you examples of agreements … and it’s free.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 3, 2011

This was originally published on Spin Sucks as a guest post. Social is great. I love social. And yes, even though countless folks (including myself) have railed against that as a misnomer, I’m guessing we’ll keep calling it social until we can collectively come up with a better name for it. I certainly hope we don’t.

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Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 6, 2009

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media , Wordpress / My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | Subcribe via RSS My 9 Favorite WordPress Social Media Plugins October 6th, 2009 Posted in Social Media , Wordpress Tweet Share The WordPress platform never ceases to amaze me.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2019

Many rants are made across the tubes of information about how social media vanity stats aren’t true engagement (e.g. I work for Inter-State Studio & Publishing, Co , the nation’s largest family-owned school picture company. Image: Tina Leggio via Flickr, CC 2.0. It’s here I think an important distinction must be made.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

For both public relations and search engine optimization, publishing content via other people’s sites is a critical part of their everyday duties. Image: SalFalko via Flickr, CC 2.0. Gatekeepers are the ones who control what is published on their site. Utilize Social Media.

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

s Blog Publishing Guide [link] 10 Things to Do Before Launching Your Blog [link] Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy [link] Creating a web presence – why bother? And 85 percent believe a company should not only be present, but also interact with its customers via social media.&#

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 31, 2012

Today’s pick – Howie Goldfarb’ s May post on social media listening using Manwich as a case study – comes from Dan Cohen. Image: keysi via Flickr, CC 2.0. And for big brands that can’t always respond to every mention, it is important to be talked about on social media networks. Funny+useful=awesome.”

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I couldn’t write about social media and marketing when we’re in the middle of the worst humanitarian crisis in decades. I found the photo I used to create this image from Cluster Munition Coalition on Flickr ( CC 2.0 ). There are millions of people around the world who do not have homes, safety, family.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media Written on July 14, 2009 by Justin Levy in charity , mashable , social media 3 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Justin Levy

MAY 10, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Joint Chiefs of Staff 2010 Social Media Strategy Written on May 10, 2010 by Justin Levy in military , social media , social media strategy 16 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 9, 2013

Image: crimfants via Flickr, CC 2.0. I pitched a post to her a few months back and she rejected it because it didn’t fit with the content that she was publishing. Regular readers of Waxing Unlyrical probably are familiar with Erin Feldman, the talented eclectic responsible for WUL’s Sarah and Sheldon illustrations.

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Myrland Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As you might guess, the ones that are written about the most have to do with digital and social media. I’ll curate and publish this ever-growing list of predictions for you in the days to come, but today we will talk about the need for exploration , and how you might want to think about it as it pertains to your job.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

With social media — or quite frankly, the existence of the Internet, any misstep you make in your personal dealings with others can become public. Social media is social. We’re starting to use search — and social media — as our recommendation engines.

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Adam Cohen

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Who owns the publishing? PR organizations can be built are “unfinished” content, including press releases and snippets prepared to help media organizations generate their own finished content. photo credit: atrogu via Flickr Tweet. Who owns the maintenance? Someone please tell me, where is the Content Department?

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