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Social Media Lessons from America’s Biggest Company

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How does Chad keep up with a new Walmart store opening in Oriental, North Carolina and at the same time manage the publicity surrounding the one-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh? The Marketing department manages the Facebook page.) “To say that we figured it out would be inaccurate.”

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How Sexy Hair Blends Instagram and E-Commerce

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salons, and boasts an impressive 275,000 likes on Facebook and 31,500 Instagram followers. “I’m not just doing public relations and I’m not just doing social media, but I’m also doing customer service.” Sexy Hair on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram , Pinterest , YouTube. In This Episode.

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Using Social Media to Win Hearts in Financial Services

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via Navy Federal’s Facebook Over the past few years, NFCU has been establishing its social presence. via Navy Federal’s Facebook With the support of the PR team, Michael strives to keep content primary in his social media strategy. If you could do a Skype call with any living person, who would it be?

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Add For Immediate Release to your podcast queue

Biznology

A couple Sundays ago I met up with Joseph Thornley , Lynette Young , and Shel Holtz on video Skype to record episode 15 of Shel’s industry-trusted and industry-respected PR podcast, For Immediate Release , AKA the FIR Podcast. He is @thornley on Twitter, thornley10 on YouTube and Joseph Thornley on Google+ and Facebook.

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Forget Best Practices – Get 100,000+ Likes with Your Genuine Voice

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David Oliver, Chief of Police at the Brimfield Police Department in Ohio, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the insane popularity of his department’s Facebook page, his book at the foundation its proceeds benefit, and the importance of maintaining a consistent presence and voice in social media. Just 10,600.

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Don’t Get Caught Up In Tactics – Keep the Customer in Mind

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Social Media Stat of the Week: Teens share more on Facebook when they have more friends. This may not be as much a comment about Facebook, though, as it is a comment about the fact that there are different types of people: some are social (with many friends and who want to share) and some are less social. via Pew Research.

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The Best Job in Social Media

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Facebook and Twitter are their “keynote” channels, with Tour Diaries a close third. Yahoo may have a history of ruining companies they acquired, but perhaps they will have learned something from Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram: buy the company, then let it run itself. Four Your Information.