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MARCH 14, 2008

Late last week, MediaPost's Cathy Taylor wrote about the shortcomings of marketing agencies (large ones at least) when it comes to really understanding and utilizing social media on their clients' behalf—or even their own—in Blogger's Block - And Other Ways Agencies Aren't Walking The Walk Of Social Media. "

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JUNE 16, 2008

Blogs now rival traditional media for reach. Social media has given every consumer the opportunity to reach millions of others with his or her opinion of a brand or product. Social media enables you, as a marketing or PR professional, to participate in the conversion—but no longer to control it.

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JULY 13, 2009

How can you make more efficient use of social media? What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn? 5 Daily Social Media Builders In Less Than 10 Minutes (Total!)

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

There are several different tools and tactics included under the umbrella of "social media"—including podcasting, video, social bookmarking, wikis, forums, and social networking—but the ideal starting point is blogging.

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APRIL 24, 2008

Being social media savvy, you add blogger outreach to your PR plans for a new product launch. You carefully craft your message, following best practices for blogger PR outreach : personalize each message, make it clear that you've read the blog and understand its subject matter, and explain the relevance of your message.

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JULY 16, 2008

Yet many PR people stumble badly when reaching out to bloggers, with blog outreach efforts a mix of good, bad and ugly. As previously noted here and elsewhere, making pitches both personal and relevant is the first step to getting a blogger to write about you. It's not about money—at least not primarily, for most bloggers.

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MAY 19, 2008

The Blogging for Business (B4B) Conference coming up in Salt Lake City on June 6 will feature an intriguing lineup of speakers , including: Brian Critchfield of Navel Marketing on how the consumer revolution is driving transparency in marketing; Charlie Craine , Director of Interactive Media for the Deseret News; Christopher Barger , GM's Director (..)

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The VirtualHosting blog just announced their list of the Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007. The list is divided into nine categories including Most Popular Social Media, Most Popular Social Networking, Web 2.0, Industry News, and Social Media and Marketing.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

One of the most popular posts ever on this blog was The Social Media Email Signature , in which I noted that "In the old days, email signatures pretty much just mirrored business card information (which is still the case for most people).A Social Media Signature"), then click "Next." A growing number of Web 2.0-savvy

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The term "social media" encompasses several different types of sites, and it's important to use all of them properly in order to really be effective at social media optimization (SMO). So, here are some tips for using different types of social media sites for SMO.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you explain the value of social media to skeptics?

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MAY 18, 2009

How should you measure the impact of social media? What are some of the best free tools for monitoring social buzz about your brand or company? Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

My last post listed several of the best news articles from 2007 on how to effectively use social networking sites for marketing. Here are some of the best blog posts on social networking and social media marketing strategies and tactics.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Use social media to enhance your SEO efforts and build your business? Get the answers to these questions plus learn more about the largest and the fastest-growing social bookmarking and social networking sites in this installment of some of the best SMO blog posts and articles written so far in 2008.

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JULY 16, 2007

Specifically, ITtoolbox wanted to determine how IT decision makers use social media tools (such as blogs, podcasts, discussion groups and wikis) to assist in purchasing decisions. Among the key findings: Overall, IT decision makers spend more time each week reading or interacting with social media (3.5

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JULY 23, 2007

WordPress and Blogger are the most popular blogging platforms, while Feedburner is the preferred RSS feed creator. and social media aren't just for teenagers and garage bands; they are being embraced in a big way by B2B technology buyers and vendors alike. . _ Here is the vendor perspective. Clearly, Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0,

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Mind you, I've never worked for a trade publisher and am not telling them how to run their businesses, these are just observations based on nearly 20 years of media buying and 25 years of business experience. Bloggers could do this independently, but few have the resources to do a thorough job. Conversation Aggregation. Not possible.

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JULY 1, 2009

Conceptually the site is a bit like Social Media Today and other targeted content portals, though it's the first (that I'm aware of at least) focused specifically on providing information for B2B marketers. Additional bloggers meeting the high standards for the community will be added over time.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Which "rules" should every blogger know and follow? 15 Rules for Business Bloggers by Conversation Marketing The brilliant and often very funny Ian Lurie offers up his list of "rules" for writing a successful business blog, such as "Take the B.S. What techniques will help you write more compelling posts?

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

How does the increasing use of social media affect SEO efforts? Another excellent SEO post from Search Engine Land is The Evolving State Of Social Media & SEO. Social media works. What are the key signals of SEO quality on a website? What common SEO mistakes should you avoid, and what myths to dispel?

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Despite a recent dip in users, Twitter remains a hot social media platform (and arguably a better venue for b2b marketers than Facebook). Bloggers not only use Twitter to promote their content, but writing about Twitter frequently is their content.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

tags: Tony Karrer B2B marketing Top 40 B2B Marketing Bloggers Twitter social media Junta 42 Gimbal icerocket tags: Tony Karrer B2B marketing Top 40 B2B Marketing Bloggers Twitter social media Junta 42 Gimbal Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models —a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products.

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

The umbrella term of "public relations" (PR) has always covered a number of specialties: media relations (primarily), investor relations, analyst relations, community relations, even employee relations. The social networking of Web 2.0 Appeals to bloggers need to be direct, personal, relevant and transparent.

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MAY 4, 2009

How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? How should marketers and PR professionals adapt to the decline of traditional publishing and the rapidly increasing influence of social media? SEO social media interactive PR? tags: PR 2.0 tags: PR 2.0

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JUNE 24, 2009

Networking 101 – Building Relationships with Bloggers by Blogsessive Alina Popescu provides an invaluable roadmap for establishing relationships, starting with commenting on their blog and actively participating in the conversation, through connecting on social media sites, linking, contacting directly, and writing guest posts.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Basic link-building—social media sites, directories, business partners etc. Advanced link-building—blogging, commenting, content marketing , guest posting, blogger outreach, interactive PR , etc. Including (but not over-doing) keywords in content and heading tags. Incorporating keyword links in page text.

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MAY 5, 2009

ViralBlog is written by a "collaborative team of viral bloggers (who) haunt the globe for great viral and social media cases every day.(the) the) ViralBlog team aims to inspire CMO’s, advertising and media agencies in creating the best social media strategies and viral campaigns ever."

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OCTOBER 12, 2007

While The Truth Laid Bear provides a portal and blog search engine for individual bloggers and blog-readers, Kithbridge provides customized technology, services, and strategies for businesses, political campaigns, nonprofits, and other organizations which seek to fully engage with the growing and dynamic world of the blogosphere and new media.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Proof You Can Gain Additional Rankings And Build Relevant Links With Google News by 97th Floor Blogger Matt Siltala shows how to use Google News search to increase the exposure and SEO value of a press release. David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR provides an excellent primer on the subject. tags: interactive PR, Web 2.0

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Bloggers Ponder Google's RSS Syndication Stats by MediaPost Online Spin Following Google's acquisition of Feedburner , Max Kalehoff ponders the importance of the "reach" metric for bloggers. Personally, I'm skeptical. No, the only metric that really matters to "those seeking to monetize through advertising" is revenue.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Top 10 RSS Promotion Tips by SiteProNews Andy MacDonald , CEO of Swift Media UK , provides 10 tips for maximizing exposure to your RSS feeds, including registering with RSS feed directories, linking to your feed, and using auto-discovery. Aune del.icio.us

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JANUARY 11, 2008

But first, blogger and podcaster extraordinaire Paul Dunay, inspired by Paul Gillin's book The New Influencers: A Marketer's Guide to the New Social Media , tagged me to write about the most important influences in my life, so here goes. Back to the Best of 2007 series next week. 1) My mother.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Snitter Snitter is a small desktop application that makes it easy to keep up with those you are following on Twitter, a social networking site that lets you keep "followers" up to date on what you're up to, and stay in the loop on what they're doing. Like KickApps, Ning is a social networking platform. Ning Marketing 2.0

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AUGUST 1, 2007

Getting mentioned by relevant and influential bloggers is one of the most productive means of viral promotion (and free, other than the outreach effort). Independent bloggers don't want to be corporate shills, but they do love to write about cool stuff. social media, YouTube, Insight24, iTunes, Digg, PRWeb, technology forums del.icio.us

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AUGUST 29, 2007

Marketing guru, podcaster and blogger extraordinaire Paul Dunay has developed a reputation for interviewing smart, interesting people about their knowledge of web marketing, blogging and social media tools. In case you missed it, last week he took a break from that practice—and interviewed me instead.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Blog SEO Tips: Top SEO Mistakes to Avoid by Blogsessive Alex Cristache details five common SEO mistakes bloggers make that cause their sites to fare more poorly than necessary in search engine rankings. Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on the practice of SEO so far this year.

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