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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

Think customer reviews, social media posts, and photos or videos shared by loyal customers. Hand in hand with trust comes social proof— a term first coined in 1984 by psychologist Robert Cialdini. Consumers credit reviews from the people they view to be “like them,” thus making social proof a type of decision-making shortcut.

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When I Couldn’t Find Marketing Outlets to Elevate My Brand, I Created My Own

Buffer

When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities. Again, this was surprisingly simple to launch. We created a Google Form to collect nominations.

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Best Random but Interesting Posts, Articles and Resources of 2009

Webbiquity

There’s no magic to linking to a YouTube video, but want to know how to link to a specific point, by minute and second, in a video? A Top 25 List of Social Media, Web 2.0 & Marketing ‘Best-Of-Lists!’ Link to a specific part of a YouTube video by Matt Cutts. What exactly is “Web 3.0?&#

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Why Twitter is Trying to Turn Itself Into Facebook

Convince & Convert

Tweetable Moments That’s the beauty of social media: There aren’t specific rules about how we have to use it. He and Dave Taylor just co-wrote “ twitter power 3.0 ,” the latest edition of his book first written in 2009. In 1995, he started one of the first 18,000 websites in the world. joelcomm Tweet This.

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The Stories Behind 5 Social Networks That Never Caught On

Hubspot

What was the first social network you ever joined? While many people will recall it being Facebook or Twitter, others might remember some of the earlier, less popular social networks. A lot these primitive social networks go forgotten, but that doesn't make their stories any less important. 1) Friendster.

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Looking for a little marketing wisdom?

markempa

Build Social Networks - Marketers are starting to see the value of building relationships using LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and blogs. There are some interesting “Case Studies” that will hit home for marketers investigating ways to integrate social media marketing into their 2009 plan.

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how to use social media - lessons from ama digital conference

The Effective Marketer

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Use Social Media – Lessons from AMA Digital Conference This past Friday (March 6) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter hosted an incredible full day event called the Digital Marketing Conference.