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Twitter Twaddle, Part 1: What Twitter Is and Why It's Cool

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Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.) Self-described as simply a real-time short messaging service and often referred to a microblogging platform , to those new to it, Twitter resembles nothing so much as a giant cocktail party where everyone talks at once and hopes others listen.

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Twitter Twaddle, Part 2: Best Practices, Tools and The Future of Twitter

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Part one covered what Twitter is and why it's cool ; this post discusses Twitter etiquette, tools, and speculation about its future. How to Twitter Properly Like any other social setting, Twitter has its own etiquette. This is the second of a two-part series. This can be confusing to new users. But there are limits."

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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How can you maximize the business value of tools like LinkedIn and Twitter? He also quotes a HubSpot study finding that three-quarters of bloggers in small to midsize companies say that " their company blogs were 'useful,' 'important,' or 'critical' to their business." But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable?

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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by HubSpot Rick Burnes notes that without a strong content strategy to back up social media efforts, marketers risk the "all hat, no cattle" syndrome: lots of attention on Twitter and Facebook, but no compelling content to back it up and turn the curious into the converted. Is Your Online Marketing Strategy All Tweet and No Meat?

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 5

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Attract lots of targeted Twitter followers in a short time? How I attracted 8000 Twitter followers in 14 weeks! Instead, he offers a positive philosophy and thoughtful approach to attracting worthwhile, like-minded Twitter "associates" (like many Twitters, Jim finds the term "followers" a little creepy).

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Social Media ROI vs. RONI

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Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. You have no way of even accurately identifying all of those points of exposure, much less assigning a value to each one.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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6 Tips for Making a Business Marketing Video by HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog Guest blogger Catie Foertsch provides tips for producing an effective, professional business video, such as starting with a script, using an external wireless microphone, and setting up proper lighting. Social Tagging.