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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds. link] ethan Hi Jay, Thank you for the review.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Source: Frost & Sullivan ) Peer referrals: This is primarily social media marketing or the online version of word of mouth marketing (WOM). I don’t want to ignore the other forms of marketing content such as emails, e-newsletters, virtual events, case studies and analyst reports.

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JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Read the fine print. This is particularly important when managing branded client materials.

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MAY 26, 2010

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. link] Make It Happen Event RT @juliehood: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media via @jaybaer [link] (Do these resonate with you? The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location. Just like websites.

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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 =(.

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APRIL 1, 2010

In the team’s defense, they do have a nicely executed Events tab, and the Wall seems to be pretty active, with a variety of contests for fans. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook.

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JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. There's a lot that's going to need to be legislated after the event and those two words would drive any corporate lawyers nuts.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Podcasts vs. YouTube. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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JULY 14, 2010

[link] #sm [link] Richard Becker Best Fresh Content Pick: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] by @membershipjedi [link] Martin Seibert I definitely like your approach and I fully agree, that strategy comes first and social media and tracking follow. The challenges and chances of facebook, twitter, YouTube et.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Take your top keywords (including your company name, product name, etc.) What shows up in these search results? How much photo and video content appears?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. It’s about humanization.

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APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. I try to add value, have conversations, RT good info, and occasionally promote an event or blog of my own. They aren’t trying to sell you more insurance – at least not at that point – they are being helpful.

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MARCH 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you treating social media like a checklist? A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ThinkGeek has a robust involvement in social media, with over 68,000 followers on Twitter , 50,000 fans on Facebook and over 11,000 subscribers to their channel on YouTube , which features company-posted videos demonstrating items like their proximity-meter t-shirts and fake-blood-filled, realistically gummy heart for Valentine’s Day.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Most of the tools in the space focus on Twitter, we focus on Facebook Pages, YouTube and Twitter. Its much more cost effective for the mid size company who doesn't have a giant budget or the customer base on Twitter. I think Facebook pages are a tool that are not given enough credit right now.

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MAY 19, 2010

Whether it be discovered as a blog post via Google search, a video via YouTube or through an archive of indexed Tweets — we want the content we are looking for, when we are looking for it. We want our marketing content to be: Discoverable – Marketing content is consumed on our time and with our permission.

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JUNE 8, 2010

A single tweet, YouTube video, or blog post can be the spark that sets off a firestorm of controversy. Opportunities Via Context Musician Dave Carroll has been widely lauded for his “ United Breaks Guitars &# YouTube video that has now been seen more than 8.5 450,000 views on YouTube, and counting.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some companies (such as Domino's which I also wrote about here: [link] ) have gotten better at acting like they are all of those buzz words like transparent, human, conversational, engaging, etc. You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&#

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Meanwhile, however, I do very much like Facebook Lite , which strips down a lot of the shiny distractions, and gives you a threaded News Feed, birthdays, and events – and that’s about it. (I’m working on a Fan Page that will be launching next month).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The results automatically update in front of your eyes, and watching Kurrently results for a buzz-worthy live event is a breathtaking portrait of our interconnectedness. It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. It updates pretty quickly on the fly as well once you’ve searched which is really neat.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Meanwhile, however, I do very much like Facebook Lite , which strips down a lot of the shiny distractions, and gives you a threaded News Feed, birthdays, and events – and that’s about it. (I’m working on a Fan Page that will be launching next month).

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APRIL 7, 2010

Whrrl also lets other people check-in to MY check-in turning it into an almost virtual layer over our real life event. Whrrl also lets other people check-in to MY check-in turning it into an almost virtual layer over our real life event. Foursquare makes me figure that out on my own by browsing my feed. That is troubling.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. Social media is just that, social.

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem.

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APRIL 27, 2010

[link] Clinton Bonner This so reminds me of Christoph Waltz's acceptance speech for best supporting actor at this year's Oscars for his role in Inglorious Bastards… Everyone has to do the obligatory “thank you(s)&# just as an element of Randy's job was to provide the information he needed to convey … If you haven't (..)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Finally, I see Twitter being a terrific communication tool for brands to use to update their audience on events. Why is Twitter worth it… it is one of the best ways around to listen to your customers, to pick up trends early, to intercept complaints and resolve them in ways that cause terrific word of mouth wins.

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