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Five Often-Overlooked Reasons Senior Executives Should Use Social Media

Paul Gillin

Why would I want to be on Twitter? I hear these objections all the time when speaking to top executives about social media. Their concerns are motivated by a basic misunderstanding of how people use tools like LinkedIn and Twitter. I already get more useless messages than I can handle anyway.”. Sound familiar?

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

A journalist contacted me with some questions about social media marketing that I hear quite often. What are three or four things social media marketers should do, and explain why they’re important. Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches.

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Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in Plain English

Paul Gillin

I prepared summaries for my upcoming Search & Social Double Whammy seminar on May 2 in Burlington, MA describing the “big three” social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The most powerful force created by social networks is the “Power of 130.” Understanding Twitter.

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How to Change a Saved Twitter Stream to Chronological Order

Paul Gillin

If you’ve ever tried to transcribe a Twitter chat or conversation thread around a particular keyword or hash tag, you know that converting the chain to chronological order can be a real hassle. You can also use Notepad++’s lightning-fast search and replace feature to pretty up the formatting.

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Not Dead Yet: Blogging’s Popularity Surges Among F500

Paul Gillin

Nora Ganim Barnes and her team at the Charlton College of Business Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth continue to produce some of the most consistent, rigorous and comprehensive research on social media adoption by both small and large businesses. It will be for a long time.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

I was privileged to moderate the BtoB magazine Social Media Awards Breakfast in New York this week. There I got a chance to meet some remarkable people who took chances on social marketing before it was fashionable and won. Search Engine Magic. One reason is the search engine magic that blogs deliver.

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

This graphic, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday , says a whole lot about Facebook’s success and Google+ ‘s struggles, but it’s an incomplete picture of the true value of social networks. A spokesman quoted in the story protests that Google+ is simply a social networking layer on top of other services.