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JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. Does that make sense? “Right&# and “Wrong&# is probably too strident.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Now with more than 500 million global members, Facebook is changing the way we interact, communicate, share, and shop. Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they still keep chugging along, taking over the world one “like&# button at a time.

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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. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. It’s on JaneNation.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Jered I think you hit the nail on the head, here. Warm fuzzies. I have nothing of value to add to this conversation other then reiterating (again?) that I love when you blog about email marketing.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. 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.

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JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. It’s called intellectual property and in each case it belongs to somebody.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

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JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. It also continues to be a reliable conduit for new visitors here at Convince & Convert. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter?

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APRIL 15, 2010

Content without community, without approachability, without humanization and kinship is ineffective. I think your point about being involved in the community is the toughest for companies to put their arms around. Of course, content alone is not the answer. link] Joe Pulizzi Really enjoyed this read Jay. link] Matthew Ross YES!

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] unmarketing Thanks a lot Jay. I guess I better read the book before Scott arrives next month for #UnBookTourSLC, right? Who is going to post a blog review of YOUR new book (raising hand now). As you know, you’re my living example of how to write a blog.

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JUNE 29, 2010

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AUGUST 24, 2010

One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc., .&# But I think if everyone banded together and told SXSW that this forces really good people to negotiate their need to have a panel with what they teach the rest of the year, it could make a difference.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I haven't used it, but looks interesting [link] [link] Meylah Community Anyone use NutshellMail? As I am starting to preach more and more in email marketing – there is no such thing as best practices, only practices that are best for YOU. link] [link] Tom Schneller Is anyone using NutShellMail to manage their social media?

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JULY 27, 2010

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MAY 12, 2010

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Graeme White interesting! It always puts a big smile on my face to see posts like these that talk about how email and social media work together. Dare I say the “digital glue?&# Thanks dude. Great stuff… always.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

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AUGUST 19, 2010

That content helps the company with SEO, and also builds a real-time, living FAQ of customer testimonials and insights. Allowing for and creating communities. It turns advocates into volunteer marketers. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog. It makes sharing simple.

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JULY 20, 2010

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APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? So, I peeked at YouTube.

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MAY 4, 2010

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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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JUNE 3, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Really, Jay? DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Jay – I disagree here. How can you not know how to care? It's been 40+ days and they are still doing and saying dumb stuff. Is anyone advising them?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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JULY 26, 2010

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MAY 13, 2010

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JULY 28, 2010

This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. These front lines warriors are the people most in touch with the concerns and questions of your customers and prospects. Have them document EVERY question they receive.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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JUNE 24, 2010

That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social. The thought also crossed my mind about the pitchman of that era. The truly believe in the products they promote. They are always asking the question “How can we do this&# better?

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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MARCH 10, 2010

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos [link] 40deuce I agree that influence mining will definitely be a huge thing in the next year or so. However, I think that there may actually be something to this whole idea of influence and how to find the influencers. It will be interesting to watch. It will be interesting to watch.

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