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Five Often-Overlooked Reasons Senior Executives Should Use Social Media

Paul Gillin

Many executives create thought-leading content all the time in emails and posts on the company intranet. With a little wordsmithing, these can be turned into essays on platforms like LinkedIn Publishing, Medium , and Svbtle.

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Weinberger Wisdom

Paul Gillin

Media isn’t content. Telegraphs are a fixed medium for sending messages. People interact with the medium differently. Newspapers traditionally provided a curated mix of content reflecting a professionally derived combination of what we wanted to know and what we needed to know. We are the media.

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Facebook Tips for Midsize Businesses

Paul Gillin

The series is underwritten by IBM Midsize Business , but the content is entirely my own. Brody is no fan of the automated tools that enable page owners to auto-post content across multiple social platforms. ” Remember the earlier point: You can always change the offer and test something new. Get people involved.

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The Power of B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

Its namesake product is a sophisticated systems management suite for small and medium businesses (SMB) that it gives away for free. The social network is so essential to the company’s business that user generated content overflows onto the corporate homepage. It has to; they’re critical to its business.

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and other social networks are all amplifiers to some extent, but Twitter is unique in that its content is public. As a result, awareness can spread more quickly on Twitter than in any other social medium. This makes Twitter a rapid vehicle for spreading long-form content like videos and blogs.

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

Make it easy: Create suggested messages for them to use in each medium (For example, “Come see the latest in Acme widgets. This enables you to assemble photo galleries by stitching together tagged content from a variety of sources. Content from past events is your best promotion for future events. AcmeForum ).

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The Value of Tweeting Events

Paul Gillin

I attended a nearby Social Media Breakfast on the subject of content marketing, featuring several respected speakers. For example, “ @jchernov Guy who proposed to GF via infographics may have mortally wounded the medium #SMB26 ow.ly/96Jcj.”. BrianBab21 “Content mktg is soft sell. That was easy. ” #SMB26.