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Cool & Useful Sites for the Holidays

Paul Gillin

The folks at the Webby Awards sent along a super-helpful list of Web resources to use over the holidays. Google+ Hangouts. They range from social shopping to gift recommendations to real-time TV and music sharing. While I was familiar with several of these sites, I hadn’t heard of gems like Yap.tv, Wantful and Trippy.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

Other new stuff that they’re doing (and this comes directly from the press release): The industry’s first online design hub – the element14 knode – designed to help engineers accelerate design and development and bring products to market faster than ever before. Quickstarter doesn’t pretend to be a resource for the digerati.

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What Social Media Marketers Should and Shouldn’t Do

Paul Gillin

Listen to your market and customers using tools like Twitter filters, Google Alerts and LinkedIn searches. Your principal goal should be to help people solve problems and make smarter decisions. Be helpful and sales will come. What are three or four things social media marketers shouldn’t do and why?

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The Social CIO: Texas Health Builds a Knowledge Engine

Paul Gillin

One of them is Ed Marx (below right), the CIO at Texas Health Resources , a system of 24 hospitals in North Texas that employs more than 21,500 people and serves 6.5 For example: As electronic health records (EHR) are adopted throughout the system, physicians set up a forum to help each other champion the new technology.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

The user interface is a Facebook/Google+-like internal social network. Looks just like Google Hangouts. This helps a business to understand in near real-time how customers are reacting to news or a new product and how that’s reflected in sales from transaction systems. Now you have those statistics instantly.”

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

The hash tag (#), which was created by the Twitter community to help bring order to the service’s inherent chaos, has become one of the Internet’s most powerful organizing and amplification tools. It’s helped Twitter become a core utility for arranging everything from book signings to mass protests. Do not let that happen to you. [1]

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

They help you publicize to a local community. You want to know which sources are sending traffic to your landing page so you can better focus your resources. Google Documents supports simple forms at no charge. EventBrite is a great service, but I recommend against using it as your event landing page. AcmeForum ).