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The Social Media Baron: Elon Musk’s New Tool To Shape Public Opinion

Forbes Social Media

Like media moguls before him, the world’s wealthiest person now owns a personal mouthpiece with Twitter. It may prove more potent at influencing public opinion than traditional news outlets.

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How Stockholm Transport Improved Its Brand Image Through Facebook

Mindjumpers

Tweet Stockholm public transport created a unique campaign at Stockholm Pride Parade to improve the image of public transport in Stockholm. Get people thinking about public transport in a positive way. Solution: Made public transport a part of the local event. Reached out to people on social media to gather support and live stream the event.

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Biden Says The U.S. Should Review Elon Musk’s Relationships With Foreign Governments

Forbes Social Media

President, do you think Elon Musk is a threat to U.S. national security?".

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Fisker CEO Deletes Twitter Account On Concerns About Elon Musk’s Control Of His Free Speech

Forbes Social Media

Transportation /transportation Business /business Transportation /transportation Innovation /innovation Social Media /social-media Sustainability /sustainability Lifestyle /lifestyle Cars & Bikes /cars-bikes Editors' Pick editors-pick Business autos

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ARHT Media’s Hologram Technology Recreates Star Trek Discovery’s Iconic Transporter at Paramount+ Summit of Stars in London

The Realtime Report

ARHT Media’s Hologram Technology Recreates Star Trek Discovery’s Iconic Transporter at Paramount+ Summit of Stars in London. ARHT Media Inc. , More on ARHT Media: Twitter , Facebook , Linkedin.

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Tesla Rival Lucid To Advertise Electric Air Sedan On NBC As Elon Musk Hosts SNL

Forbes Social Media

Transportation /transportation Business /business Transportation /transportation Energy /energy Innovation /innovation Sustainability /sustainability Social Media /social-media Lifestyle /lifestyle Cars & Bikes /cars-bikes Editors' Pick editors-pick Business autos

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10 Ways Government Agencies Can Increase Their Engagement on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social media for government agencies is about demonstrating your expertise, building trust and credibility, and providing audiences with fast, reliable, unambiguous information. Every government social media marketer occasionally struggles with ideas or a lack of content.

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Elon Musk And The Other Billionaires Whose Fortunes Fell This Week As Tech Stocks Continue To Struggle

Forbes Social Media

The founders of Tesla, Oracle and Airbnb lost billions of dollars this week amid surging market volatility and continued pressure on tech stocks.

Energy 105
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Kremlin Considers Elon Musk’s Clubhouse Invitation To Vladimir Putin

Forbes Social Media

Business /business Business /business Billionaires /worlds-billionaires Transportation /transportation Manufacturing /manufacturing Media /media Policy /policy Innovation /innovation Social Media /social-media Leadership /leadership Editors' Pick editors-pick Breaking breaking-news

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Bitcoin Bounces Back From Three Month Low As Elon Musk Denies Tesla Has Sold Its Crypto Assets

Forbes Social Media

Business /business Business /business Money /money Crypto & Blockchain /crypto-blockchain Leadership /leadership Innovation /innovation Social Media /social-media Sustainability /sustainability Transportation /transportation Breaking breaking-news Editors' Pick editors-pick

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The pros and cons of social media

Sprout Social

Ah social media. As social media platforms have changed over the years (RIP, Vine), so too have the pros and cons of social media. Not so long ago, brands and executives were still wondering whether they should be on social media at all.

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Bitcoin Surges To An All Time High Of $48,000 As Tesla Signals Its Confidence

Forbes Social Media

Bitcoin’s value reached a new record on Tuesday after Tesla invested $1.5 billion and said it would accept it for payments.

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Dogecoin Reclaims Spot As Fourth Most Valuable Cryptocurrency After Elon Musk Fuels Speculation Tesla Could Accept It As Payment

Forbes Social Media

Business /business Business /business Policy /policy Transportation /transportation Leadership /leadership Money /money Crypto & Blockchain /crypto-blockchain Innovation /innovation Social Media /social-media Breaking breaking-news Editors' Pick editors-pick

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China’s Trip.com Posts $131 Mln Loss In 4th Quarter As Pandemic Drags On

Forbes Social Media

Asia /asia Asia /asia Billionaires /worlds-billionaires Business /business Transportation /transportation Innovation /innovation Consumer Tech /consumer-tech Social Media /social-media Lifestyle /lifestyle Travel /travel asia russellflanneryblog

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Who Are The Biggest Businesses Using Blockchain? Forbes Blockchain 50 Call For Nominations, 2021

Forbes Social Media

Forbes is now accepting nominations for billion-dollar companies making big plays in blockchain, the technology first popularized by bitcoin.

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Blockchain’s Biggest Businesses: Forbes Blockchain 50 Call For 2022 Nominations

Forbes Social Media

Over the first four years of the Forbes Blockchain 50, the list of billion-dollar companies making meaningful use of the technology popularized by bitcoin, has become a bellwether of institutional adoption.

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Hendrick’s Ministry of Transport and Brands Celebrate Wimbledon!

Audiense

Wimbledon is ruling the social media roost this week. In other news, Hendricks Gin have started the “Hendricks Ministry of Marginally Superior Transport”. All this, plus what caught Team Audiense’s eye on the Internet in the world of social trends. Hendrick’s Ministry (Of Transport). The campaign, “Hendrick’s Ministry of Marginally Superior Transport” launched by marketing agency Gravity Thinking , is aimed at giving weary travellers a more pleasant experience.

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Hendrick’s Ministry of Transport and Brands Celebrate Wimbledon!

Audiense

Wimbledon is ruling the social media roost this week. In other news, Hendricks Gin have started the “Hendricks Ministry of Marginally Superior Transport”. All this, plus what caught Team Audiense’s eye on the Internet in the world of social trends. Hendrick’s Ministry (Of Transport). The campaign, “Hendrick’s Ministry of Marginally Superior Transport” launched by marketing agency Gravity Thinking , is aimed at giving weary travellers a more pleasant experience.

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Ask Buffer: How Can You Batch Content for Social Media?

Buffer Social

A baby clothes brand will post baby and parent-related content, and a logistics company will post transportation and (e)commerce content. Question: I have a lot of great ideas, but I find that I don’t have enough time to make all of them come to life. What do you recommend?

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Social media activism: This is how you start a movement

Sprout Social

Social media is a hub for civic engagement. In this article, we’ll walk you through how social media activism works, how it can impact your relationships with your customers and some best practices for weighing in on social media movements.

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Bitcoin Surges To An All Time High Of $48,000 As Tesla Signals Its Confidence

Forbes Social Media

Business /business Business /business Manufacturing /manufacturing Energy /energy Transportation /transportation Innovation /innovation Social Media /social-media Money /money Crypto & Blockchain /crypto-blockchain Investing /investing Editor's Pick editors-pick Breaking breaking-newsBitcoin’s value reached a new record on Tuesday after Tesla invested $1.5 billion and said it would accept it for payments.

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US Govt. Social Media Keyword Watch List: Don’t Use These Words on Social Media Posts

Bill Hartzer

A list of keywords that the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to watch all social media accounts has been revealed. If you use one of these keywords on one of your social media posts, there is a chance that it may cause the DHS to start monitoring your social media accounts. If you want to stay off of a government watch list, I suggest that you don’t use any of these keywords on your social media posts.

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Where Social Media and Reality TV Collide

Convince & Convert

kirishred Tweet This Branding a Marketplace uShip , for those who don’t know, is a C2C marketplace where customers can ship “the enormous and the eccentric” by finding transporters. Killian Hagen , uShip’s Content Marketing Associate, explains that you can get a quote right up front, and you can attract transporters who can bid on your items. There is a very broad spectrum of customers and transporters in the uShip marketplace environment.

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Social media management services: 9 agencies your brand should check out

Sprout Social

You get as much out of your social media channels as you put in. So it’s never been a better time to explore social media management services. If you don’t have the resources to grow or train a social team, an agency is a must. Kelly Bateson Media.

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8 Tips for Using Social Media for Political Campaigns

Almost Savvy

By now, most candidates for public office have figured out that incorporating social media into their campaigns is a critically important step. The last couple of election cycles, much of this social media business was new. First a note to the candidates: You have my deepest respect and admiration for being willing to step up and commit to helping our community, state, school board, water district, transportation or other sort of infrastructure management body.

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How to Operate at Maximum Output with a Small Team

Social Media Strategies Summit

Time is one of the most precious resources in social media for government agencies. Many government social media managers have small teams responsible for managing content and strategy across multiple platforms; others might be the only people focusing on social media at their agencies.

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How to Build Public Trust Through Social Public Service

Social Media Strategies Summit

Anyone who works in social media for government agencies understands the importance of public trust. Focus On Operational Comms Think of all the different ways you communicate with your audience on social media. Because truthfully, social media needs responses fast.”

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

Convince & Convert

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search 11 Whys I’m a Social Media Addict September 2nd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Connectivity Social media brings me closer to people with whom I ordinarily would seldom interact.

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The TSA’s Shockingly Real Instagram Account

The Realtime Report

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has created an increasingly popular Instagram account, displaying some of the most alarming items that haven been confiscated at security checkpoints. Each week, the head and only member of the TSA’s social media team, Bob Burns – better known as Blogger Bob – reviews reports from over 450 airports across the country and posts the most compelling incidents.

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How Government Agencies Can Build an Effective Crisis Communications Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

Crisis management is one of the biggest challenges of social media for government agencies. A fast-evolving situation can cause panic and confusion in your community, requiring you to communicate the latest information in a calm, clear manner to the public, stakeholders, and media.

Strategy 169
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10 Government Agencies Killing it on TikTok

Social Media Strategies Summit

TikTok might not be the first channel that springs to mind regarding government social media. There are lots of other social platforms, and you likely don’t have the time or budget to focus on all of them. Government Social Media

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The NOW Revolution-not just another book about social media

Janet Fouts

They dive into some of the tough questions around social media like&# Who owns this stuff?&# and the need to establish social media guidelines and roles for the players so it’s easier to get everybody on board and knowing what they should be doing. I love this quote about free social listening tools. Corporate Social Media Amber Naslund Jay Baer Review The Now Revolution

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How Social We Are With Social Media

Ari Herzog

They say we lack social skills. Technology Does Make Us Less Social. As more and more technology enters our lives, primarily social media, are we actually becoming less and less social? In some ways, social media brings us closer. Are We Becoming More Or Less Social? I think the meaning of “social” is shifting. Our entire social network once existed of only the people within our village. I became more social.

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Microsoft Launches So.Cl Social Media Network

Bill Hartzer

Being able to easily create business related social media content that goes viral is a great way to put money in your pocket, and your brand on the lips of every consumer that you reach. So.Cl (pronounced “social”) is a social sharing network currently in beta that was launched December 4, 2012 as an experiment by Microsoft FUSE Labs to provide a social media platform for students to share content with others. Social Media Social Networking

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10 Government Agencies Doing an Amazing Job on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

If I asked you to tell me about social media marketing, you’d probably describe an e-commerce brand promoting its products. Or maybe a B2B company using social platforms to generate leads. But those aren’t the only use cases for social – far from it.

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10 Ways Government Agencies Can Get the Most Out of Their Facebook Page

Social Media Strategies Summit

Local, federal, and national governments on social media have a tough job. According to Pew Research Center , seven in ten Americans use the platform, making it the second most used social media site behind YouTube. Social media users have short attention spans.

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100 Examples of Corporate Social Media Policies

Koka Sexton

The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online… The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. Template: Blogging and Social Media Policy. Social Media Handbook for Local Red Cross Units. Interim Protocols for Online Media Participation. Social Media Policy.

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So You Want to Bring Social Media to Your Organization?

Social Media Strategery

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Bringing Social Media to Your Organization – a Playbook Mon, Oct 20, 2008 Best Of , Best Practices , Social Media I’m giving a presentation, “New Media to Reach New Markets&# at the California Association for Coordinated Transportation’s (CalACT) Annual Conference & Expo on November 6 out in Monterey, CA.

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EVENT: Social Media World Forum in Singapore

Laurel Papworth

I’m speaking on social media monetization at Social Media WorldForum in Singapore on September 22nd-23rd. You can book at social media world forum. There will be two days of “interactive & engaging social media conference featuring leading key figure keynotes, brand case studies, topical Q&A and debates,exhibition hall, workshops and networking.&# Social Media WorldForum. Fotini Paraskakis Fremantle Media.

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Social Media: Winds of Change

Diva Marketing Blog

I believe as sites like LinkedIn automatically pull data into a common corporate page; and employees' digital footprints continue to multiple throughout the Internet, organizations will realize this is a critical component of social business. Corporate Personal Branding Defined : The convergence of corporate branding and employee personal branding, based on the alignment of common values, supported by content creation and social media, for mutual benefit.

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The Right Way to Use Social Media for Influence Marketing

Convince & Convert

Coming from a fine arts degree, moving into agencies, and finding his groove in social media, Jason Keath founded Social Fresh in 2008. As the CEO, he now consults with at least 5,000 different companies on social media strategy and development , as well as being a keynote speaker and constant resource quoted in publications all over the world. Social Fresh is a company dedicated to social media growth and education, including influencer marketing strategy.

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How Brands Can Be Nimble and Authentic with Every Day Crisis

Social Media Strategies Summit

If there were ever doubts about the importance of agility in the fast-paced world of social media, the last 18 months have surely laid them to rest. Going forward, social media marketers will need to be more agile than ever before. They were transported to multiple teams.

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Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media

Laurel Papworth

Crowdsourced innovation social networks. New cost-efficient ways of transporting loaded containers was the most sophisticated one I saw. Crowdsource: BP Oil Spill and social media is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. Technorati Tags: BP , crowdsource , deepwater , horizon , kaggle , Michael J Evans , mjevans.com , oil spill , Online Communities , public relations , social media , social network , social networks.