Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Do something charitable : In this 2008 pre-holiday post, Chris Brogan requests that instead of sending holiday cards, readers contribute to particular causes. Does your organization support a fundraising or community cause? Check out this post on What to Buy a Marketing Person for Christmas. Get Rich Slowly blogger J.D.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. technologies to help me communicate, collaborate and connect with like-minded educators amazes and inspires me. Become a Blogger (and a Twitterer). Develop Personal Connections. Philosophy. The power of web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is. All Rights Reserved.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

By leelefever on June 10, 2008 - 9:20am. We love Twitter because its lightweight - its a direct line to part of our community that doesnt require clicking a link in email. Submitted by Victor (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 8:34am. lightweight Submitted by EmbeddedLibrarian (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 9:33am.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Tags allow personal labeling, which is easier to remember Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 8: Del.icio.us Tags for my purposes Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 11: My Tags â?¢ Some sites - one tag â?¢ Others - multiple tags â? Others - multiple tags â?¢ Create your own personal magazine or newspaper â?¢ Featured. |.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Here, Im following both bloggers from the world of workplace learning (i.e. Personally what Id like to see is more conversations happening between edubloggers and workplace learning professionals on the issue of 21s century workplace literacy. Posted by: Meryn Stol | April 21, 2008 at 03:09 PM. Is this even an issue?

Education 100

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Darren Rowse offers seven tips for avoiding “blogger’s block&# and keeping fresh ideas and content flowing on your blog, from mind mapping and answering reader questions to taking advantage of guest post opportunities. 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community by Community and Social Media. Post this on Diigo.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 16, 2008

Luglio 16, 2008 di Giuliana Guazzaroni. Tagging : Che cosâ??è? Personal Branding con i Social Media â?? Scioglilingua Community (1). Alfabeti digitali, lingue, linguaggi, scrittura, e-learning, tutoring online, tecnologie didattiche, crossmedialità e netlife a cura di Giuliana Guazzaroni. Come posso utilizzarli.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Why not just establish some sort of conversion goal from the web on your own site (blog or www) as hub and create a social segmentation, establish process to campaign tag special links / promos and set everything else as a KPI (community size, engagement events). I really don’t see this as a tough thing to solve.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Visits are up. Page views are up.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

Social Media 137

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. The B2B prospect hanging out on Facebook Sunday night behaves differently and has different information needs than the same person reading e-mail on Monday morning.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

link] Eric_Hoffman I'm game, even if my game is a bit weak…in the month of March, for my personal blog, I saw a whopping 29 different search terms used to get to my content and for the work blog that I help to maintain we saw 190 different search terms used to get to that content.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

Social Media 126

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. 60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Because the real advantage email has over social is data.

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Plus, event invites, and photos in which you’re tagged. Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. This, I'll try. If yes, what do you think?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

We measure it (personally and professionally) quantitatively not qualitatively. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose. It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity. It's… well… *mostly* a mass media so far.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features.

Social Media 120

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Another person tweeted a link to a blog which turned out, much to my chagrin, to be a post asking for votes rather than a vote about the subject. One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc., But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. 2 many words I guess?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges?

Social Media 128

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The following five case studies lend insight into how B2B marketers can use social media to generate leads, create specialized communities, improve SEO, become knowledge sources, and strengthen marketing campaigns. Affect recommended an integrated campaign that combined social media, online video, an online sweepstakes and in-person events.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

Social Media 120

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

In the first section, Hsieh recounts his personal story, including his early childhood and nascent entrepreneurial adventures, including a misguided effort at worm farming. The book concludes with a few pages about the science of happiness, and how personal and business happiness can be inextricably linked. See you there.

Social Media 119

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. There’s been a bit of news about it recently. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. He was personable and funny, a real likable guy. That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social.

Social Media 122

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(. Need to … noodle on it a bit.

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Hubspot

JUNE 23, 2010

Avatar - An Avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks. Blogger - Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google that allows individuals and companies to host and publish a blog typically on a subdomain. An example of this is the Twitter API.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

.&# But, I’m excited by the possibilities, eager to get our kids set up in what I think will be a terrific situation, fired up about our new home, and eager to get integrated into the Indiana social media community. Personally, I love that you have all of the essentials in the car… the family, pets…and the wine!

Social Media 116

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 116

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc. Rally third-party endorsers to help share your stories.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Avatar - An avatar is an image or username that represents a person online within forums and social networks. Blogger - Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google that allows individuals and companies to host and publish a blog typically on a subdomain. An example of this is the Twitter API. has its own LinkedIn Today.

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