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The Nifty 50 Top Women of Twitter for 2011

Webbiquity

Many of these were other B2B marketers, but others were social media experts, journalists, PR professionals, or just plain fascinating personalities. She’s smart, personable, sometimes controversial and never dull. She’s an entrepreneur, marketer, blogger, and alum of Wharton and Purdue. Alicia Arenas. AliciaSanera. Amber Buhl.

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FTC Finds Paid Reviews Defy “Truth In Advertising”

readwrite

In a win for consumers, the Federal Trade Commission settled today with a video game company that hired a public relations firm to post reviews of its app in the iTunes App Store. If review services become overrun with paid endorsements, they become little more than bulletin boards for advertising, not actual user reviews.

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

Convince & Convert

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 word-for-word reprinting of Hsieh’s emails to employees regarding the Amazon acquisition are also priceless. The book is presented in three sections.

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

Convince & Convert

Instead of relying on Amazon or Netflix’s algorithm to tell you what book or movie you might enjoy, you can rely on the opinions of your friends. But, as Facebook continues to grow like John Candy at an all-night buffet, the number of possible connections for each person multiplies correspondingly. Social curation at work.

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Lessons in Crisis Communication From the Amazon Cloud Outage

Hubspot

The Amazon EC2 cloud computing service that powers many websites (including Foursquare, Reddit, and even HubSpot) was experiencing a temporary systems failure that disrupted service. Luckily, one of the many benefits of cloud computing is that dedicated technical teams exist at companies like Amazon to handle such outages.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. Selling to Big Companies ( Sales Amazon Books Leads B2B Training Prospect ).

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Win lifestyle influencers over with generosity and attentiveness

Biznology

If you’re interested in learning more about influencer marketing , micro-influencer marketing , or earned media micro-influencer marketing , please call me or email me or check out my company site or my own personal website — I look forward to connecting. Like this post? Sign up for our emails here.