Bare Feet Studios

MAY 14, 2008

Our speaker also teaches at the University of Washington and encourages CEO’s to embrace blogging and social media. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. So that means we have a long ways to go together to compete effectively.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This is a discussion in social media circles today, and everyone has their opinion. What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 30, 2009

Social media has reached the masses. Does anyone else think its interesting that Twitter, the hottest social media network today, is generating events? What’s your social currency? Everyone is doing it. Ah, events. They just won’t go away, despite the trendiness of the web.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Your currency is your social media VALUE.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. All Rights Reserved.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

There are so many layers to this topic that entire (worthy) books have been written on social media philosophy, content creation or audience engagement. With all the dynamics elements to creating a successful social media presence, its sometimes hard to know where to start or even what books are worth the time investment.

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 8, 2009

It’s a hot topic all around, as social media lends itself to some highly unethical practices and characters! It’s a hot topic all around, as social media lends itself to some highly unethical practices and characters! First – The Guiding Principles of Social Media Transparency, Truth, and Trust.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

That you are not an island ruling the world but, rather, one in an archipelago of quite delightful islands… that a certain group of people have visited, and been charmed by. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. That you are a law unto yourself.

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Akamai Marketing

JUNE 28, 2009

What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. All Rights Reserved.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

In August, fans of G-Dragon – a member of Korean hip hop group, Big Bang – fund-raised over $18,000 for Seoul University Children’s Hospital, in honor of his birthday. Granted, average non-celebrities would not be able to film TV episodes, but you can still maintain a presence online through social media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Marketing , Public Relations , Resources , Social Media | Tags: adwords , digital , erica holt , google , mobile marketing , nonprofits | Comments (9) Site settings comment help?

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Bare Feet Studios

JUNE 7, 2009

As I understand it, this blogger trip is not the first time Hawaii tourism has paid for blogger fam trips – though it is the first official blogger tour and significant campaign of which I am aware. The better social web monitoring services also cost real money, in addition to the time it takes to set them up.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media. While most of this isn’t a surprise if you are monitoring your social media efforts, it is helpful to see it so cleanly laid out and including other sources besides Twitter.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 24, 2010

But after a while, he found a group of people from a range of backgrounds – from fishermen, to a freedom fighter, to a tax collector – to take on this task. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. But having a simple yet strong story is even better.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 3, 2009

While I imagine that this attitude makes the local board of tourism very happy, is there really any place where we can do whatever we want and be assured that no one will know about it? I know; I took some of them using their cameras and cell phones so they could all get into the group shots. All feedback is appreciated.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Because when you live in a world as fast-paced as ours, you just have a few seconds while your potential reader is skimming through her email, or RSS reader, or website, and decides whether or not to click through and read the fully story… or move on. It’s the Google generation’s way of thinking. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

After one night of being unable to sleep because of the din (if you’ve ever wondered, Times Square really does not sleep at night), I found a Kimpton Group hotel uptown, and we moved, regardless of the points. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. It was terrible.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Mark as read Approve comment Due to all the negative media attention, they asked that I not livestream it. It remained a small group and was a lot of fun! Stop playing Scrooge and Cratchit it up for a change.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I feel for all the groups that consider this commemoration an abomination. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. There are always two sides to every story, and sometimes more. But I have to wonder… Was old CC simply doing the best he could? These fine folk did: Jan.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. All Rights Reserved.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Bonus: it helps identify holes in your time management skills, including the amount of time you spend in/on social media. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. What productivity tools do you use frequently? Will you share below? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Bare Feet Studios

JANUARY 4, 2010

It is part of a international nonprofit organization of social media practitioners and exists to develop and share best practices and ethics on the social web. It is part of a international nonprofit organization of social media practitioners and exists to develop and share best practices and ethics on the social web.

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 20, 2010

Privacy Issues on Facebook Use Lists to organize your friends in to groups. Twitterfeed to auto post your blog entries to Twitter Blog RSS Reader Facebook App Credibility of social messages and people connections Facebook is now subject to phishing emails; don’t follow links from email! Look at the Flickr photos here.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. I agree that the fundamentals of SEO wont change too much, though smaller organizations will probably have to put more resources into them, as groups with a larger web presence may see their lead increase. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Bare Feet Studios

OCTOBER 10, 2008

The social web creates a LOT of noise – it’s one of the things that keeps people from participating in it. On the contrary, finding the signals within the noise is not easy, not obvious, and when it comes to businesses developing social media campaigns, I do support the likes of, “Don’t try this yourself.

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Bare Feet Studios

MAY 19, 2010

I had been hired to create, staff, and execute a Social Media Campaign for the Bureau, all in the span of less than six weeks. Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. Aloha, Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Knowing social media. Whether we like it or not, social media is creeping into more and more of what we do. Being across the various social mediums not only helps with building relationships, but emphasizes being concise in your messaging. That got a big “check&# from me. Can you help me tie my shoelaces?”

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 3, 2009

If you take pictures please tag them with “socialmediaclubhawaii&# and join the Social Media Club photo pool on Flickr. What’s The Point of the Social Media Club? We have the most to gain by learning how to be effective communicators on the social web. Can’t come?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why: Jen is one of the finest people it’s been my privilege to meet through social media. Social media as the new support group? If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. She loves dogs! I love dogs! What other reason do you need?

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Bare Feet Studios

OCTOBER 15, 2008

But first I would like to answer some of the questions I have been receiving about our upcoming events, Social Media Workshop Hawaii and Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawai. Charlene Li What is Social Media? What is the Social Media Workshop Hawaii? What is the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club?

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 7, 2009

With less than a week’s notice we had over 40 people attend the launch meeting of the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club. With less than a week’s notice we had over 40 people attend the launch meeting of the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club. You can se it by following the link immediately above.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I recently tried to get a big blogger to participate in a group blog project I am working on (in other words, an ask of far less magnitude than “write about me/my biz”). Jackson blogs at on public relations, social media and communications at Proper Propaganda , which allows him to indulge a strange love of Communist art.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

It was Robin Ferrier’s Social is as Social Does , where she asked, point-blank: You know the difference between Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogs. You know the standard refrain: Social media is about talking with – not talking to – your audience. The truth is, we can all stand to be more social.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

A leader, on the other hand, ascribes importance to the productivity of a group. Leaders cultivate intelligent and competent group members by communicating why certain methods work and should be replicated, and what about certain ideas are important. Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I should say “wars&# since, as first a Royal Indian Air Force and then an Indian Air Force officer, from which he retired as a Group Captain, he’d seen his fair share of them. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. That is why I, today, Return the Favor.

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