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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Further, there have been some reports of issues with accuracy in the geo-location feature) Twitter lists, while useful for categorizing people to follow, haven’t really taken off either.

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Don’t Treat Fans Like Cattle To me, the key insight is less about who checks what first (although it would be interesting to see the impact of smart phone ownership on the results). Thanks for sharing this research report and the numbers behind it. link] Darryl King Are you treating your fans like cattle?

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Convince & Convert

Smart phone-toting attendees could snap a photo of each others’ code, and instantly follow one another within the my.SXSW social network. Not Yet I had high hopes for the emergence of QR codes (the newfangled bar codes that allow you to instantly access a Web site or rich media). Largely, it didn’t happen.