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Balancing social resources across multiple business lines

Sprout Social

The company has business lines including student loan servicing, private student loans, improving K-12 school management through service and technology, renewable energy, encouraging a more educated workforce, and telecommunications. In total, they have 64 social media accounts and hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms.

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How to Use Hashtags: A Quick and Simple Guide for Every Network

Hootsuite

Whichever social media platforms your brand uses as part of its social media strategy , knowing how to use hashtags will help boost your brand’s social media engagement. This post breaks down the basics of effectively using hashtags on social media and why you should use them. Why use hashtags?

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Traditional Media brainwashing Australians about Social Media

Laurel Papworth

Telephones don’t stalk children, Social Media doesn’t intimidate them either. I must see a dozen articles a day trashing social media in traditional media. And who is responsible for the “social media is party media&# approach? Investigate People. See what happens?

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What is hashtagging and how to use it effectively

Sprout Social

That’s the question frustrating social media marketers today. According to 72% of our LinkedIn community , hashtagging impacts the overall performance of social media content. I designed the hashtag to thwart any one social network from becoming the dominant gatekeeper. To hashtag or not to hashtag?

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I watched and experienced first-hand the marketing and social media landscape change, consolidate, focus, develop and evolve all at the same time. As I’ve said before, social media needs to be INTEGRATED into your overarching marketing plan.

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B2B Testimonials: Seven Things to Do When Clients Won’t (or Can’t) Talk

Webbiquity SMM

Blind case studies: write those case studies, just use generic descriptors (e.g., “a large telecommunications firm”) in place of the actual client name (e.g., Build a thriving social network: encourage your clients to follow you on Twitter, like you on Facebook, and connect on LinkedIn. Here are seven possible tactics.

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Facebook Filed for a Trademark on the Word Meta. You Should See the Description.

Bill Hartzer

G & S: Downloadable software in the nature of a mobile application; Computer hardware; Downloadable software for social networking and creating and interacting with online communities; Downloadable software for creating, managing and accessing groups within virtual communities; Software development tools; Downloadable software to enable development, (..)