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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Sure, social media is rooted in conversations, and listening to your customers and then responding on the social Web is a pillar of social media. If you update your company's Facebook page about latest happenings, or create a YouTube video, or write a blog post, the conversation comes AFTER the content is sent out, not before.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media results can’t be measured False. Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.

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APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago.

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MAY 27, 2010

If someone fills out the form to download the document, and they have a large following on Twitter (as determined by an instant Flowtown look-up), you can automatically send and email to your PR team to follow up with that individual. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Podcasts vs. YouTube. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too. Private brand communities vs. Facebook.

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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. Because once everyone is on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, we'll have to start talking about storytelling, because the tools conversation won't have any facets left. Just like websites. link] jaybaer It will.

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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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MAY 11, 2010

Put it on YouTube of course. The Youtube response from Taylor Guitars to the whole “United Breaks Guitars&# imbroglio is perfect. Otherwise, they probably end up clicking another video on youtube's search results page. Post it to your Facebook page. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally. Now what?&# Im Jay Baer.

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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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APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community. Im Jay Baer.

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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. It is very economical for a smaller PR agency or large (from $9.99 I'm planning to roll it out across my client base and will be sure to post a review of it on my blog soon at [link]. I have to say that I am impressed so far.

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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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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. Im Jay Baer.

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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. Im Jay Baer.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&# RT @jaybaer: The Social Impact of Friendships and Lies [link] [link] Ruder Finn Israel RT @CMM_PR Social media, trust, and the future of friendship – [link] – Great post. Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’m planning to write a full post about it soon, but the real genius of Swix is that it allows you to easily create a unified scoreboard of all your key social media metrics like blog traffic, subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and much more. link] Must-read for PR/marketing pros.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. And a search engine of it's own. link] jaybaer Indeed. Baer goes on to conclude that Facebook [.] Im Jay Baer.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. And a search engine of it's own. link] jaybaer Indeed. Baer goes on to conclude that Facebook [.] Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

link] ASDA’A B-M PR RT @jaybaer: Kurrently Revolutionizes Real-Time Search With Twitter + Facebook Results [link] [link] @pbarbanes I think it's true as one commenter pointed out below that many (most?) It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. Im Jay Baer.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

I’m planning to write a full post about it soon, but the real genius of Swix is that it allows you to easily create a unified scoreboard of all your key social media metrics like blog traffic, subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and much more. link] Must-read for PR/marketing pros.

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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. The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Source: Jay Baer #foursquare #analysis #socialmedia #PR [link] Joseph Manna Jay, very good points and I share the same views. Although ironically, I wouldn't exactly hold up Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, or YouTube as fantastic customer service examples either. I was not aware of the acute Blackberry problems. That is troubling.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. The fuzzy numbers of TV, print, radio, outdoor and traditional PR drove me crazy. Transitory There’s literally never a dull moment in social media. I like math and analysis and reality. Im Jay Baer.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter also offers a lot to the PR teams within brands who need to seed constant updates and handle crisis management issues. For big brands, the benefits will be in customer service, rentention, support, PR. For example: You connect with a media professional via Twitter who does a story about your business.

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