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MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection.

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MARCH 10, 2010

With a comprehensive eBook featuring ideas and opinions from some of the best social media minds, concisely chronicling the state of social media today – and where we’re headed. So many of his points fit neatly into sound bites, that it seemed a natural – and relevant – forum for a conversation.

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APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? The best thing to do is find the phrase , start the blog , then wait and optimize for the real search keywords… At least that is my opinion.

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JUNE 24, 2010

You’re thinking that I’m… [link] #marketing [link] Santi Chacon 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. So in my opinion it is more the live experience which will help to sell and share. If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook. Relationships.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. If it’s not, then we don’t.

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MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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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

(based on budget or schedule) Once you’ve answered those questions you can compare major social media monitoring tools. I’ve started a comparison chart, based only on my own experience and opinion, for you to use and update as you see fit. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Never Heard Of It This is of course a situation that is most acute in B2B, where White Horse found that 60% of companies either have low executive interest in social media, or have modest interest but a lack of education. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. This makes no sense.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Sadly, it isn't and it's a much harder sell to big brands in my opinion (“What, we really have to communicate with our customers?&# ). I think your point about being involved in the community is the toughest for companies to put their arms around. Making progress, but still a long way to go.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Check out @jaybaer's What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce [link] [link] DogWood Beds RT @pawspix: Saying sorry = courage… RT @jaybaer: [link] The PR secret BP can learn from an umpire. jefflogden You are so right, Jay.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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JULY 14, 2010

I now take the organization’s current strategic plan, CEO’s vision, mission statement and make those the metrics of a social media strategy. If a non-profit has a strategic objective to “further engage current donors”, with 600 million people on Facebook it is a sure bet that some of them have a profile. Look on facebook.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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MARCH 23, 2010

It's good to know that different people from different parts of the globe can exchange opinions on certain topics like this one. This is really really helpful, especially for an aspiring blogger like me. It is definitely nice to meet new friends on a blog site. It's simply amazing how technologies nowadays connect people.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have?

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MARCH 22, 2010

This program is being produced by Mike Stelzner, who runs the successful Social Media Examiner site (where I write monthly). link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Facebook has some great banter with the wall posts and status updates, but it’s more chatty than conversational and it’s not an open/public environment. But yet, the fact that true conversations per se are unlikely shouldn’t serve as sufficient cultural permission to turn social media into Headline News.

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MARCH 9, 2010

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. Do you really know where your customers are in social media? Are you ready to look harder?

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And in most cases, we’re willing converts, with Facebook’s ease-of-use and Twitter’s immediacy replacing letter writing and meeting up for lunch. I’ve now hit double digits on the number of people I have unfriended due to their apparent round-the-clock playing of pointless mafia, farming, or aquarium games on Facebook.

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APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. It doesn’t have the advanced functionality of Tweetdeck (such as cross-posting to Facebook), but it’s so easy-to-use that it’s my favorite Twitter app. I implement bit.ly

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MARCH 16, 2010

According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members). Facebook Sharpening the Knife You may remember that Twitter refused Facebook’s $500 million buyout offer last September. Check ( Facebook Lite ).

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. It doesn’t have the advanced functionality of Tweetdeck (such as cross-posting to Facebook), but it’s so easy-to-use that it’s my favorite Twitter app. I implement bit.ly

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APRIL 7, 2010

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. But, we did talk about the impact of geo-tagging on reviews, and whether the fact that someone has actually been to a location recently should influence your perception of their opinion. Go for it in the comments.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Transitory There’s literally never a dull moment in social media. Facebook’s gyrations alone are enough to keep you on your toes. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Or perhaps it’s the process of forming an evaluation by discerning and comparing the options at hand and then forming an opinion objectively and wisely. Critical Thought, a Prelude to Sound Judgment “Sound&# judgment is the capacity to assess situations and circumstances shrewdly and to draw appropriate conclusions.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Perception of all ideas being leveled and equal, diminishing the power of the opinion of the highest paid executives opinion or the opinion of an “expert&# and 2.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Facebook is preferred for information about the brand’s activities, and email is preferred for product updates. Said one respondent: If I don’t get the support I need through phone or email, I use Facebook and Twitter to voice my complaint, since a ton of people will see it. Interaction. Think about that for a moment.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As David Meerman Scott acknowledged in his session Tuesday, “What does social media even mean?&# It’s become a fuzzy catch all for everything from customer service, to customer experience, to customer relationship management, to content marketing, to word of mouth. This level of vagary is useless.

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JUNE 16, 2010

And masses of Facebook fans or Twitter followers aren’t enough either. Ditch Experimentation and Plan Instead The real social media success stories aren’t arising out of tactical experimentation with Twitter and Facebook. Whether B2B or B2C, customers are buying based on what they need.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But he also made the point that counter to popular opinion, change doesn’t occur gradually, it occurs with sudden, breathtaking swiftness. Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. link] [link] MyCrowd.ca

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