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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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MAY 11, 2010

Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Put it on YouTube of course. Or that a company will be doomed if it does not entertain some form of social media management program. Post it to your Facebook page. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Easy, One Time Set-up To build your Swix success metrics (which they call “pods&# ), you just log-in to your various social outposts or hubs, and agree to a data exchange. New YouTube video that goes viral. Trade show.

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APRIL 1, 2010

So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The Facebook page has a not-too-shabby 13,000+ fans, but most of the YouTube videos have just a few dozen views. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook. The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr).

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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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MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Podcasts vs. YouTube. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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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? Content from your competitors?

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JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

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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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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.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 28, 2012

Brands Face Stream Fatigue as Consumers Look Beyond Gimmicks in Social Networks by Brian Solis. How To Write Your Social Media Plan in 8 Steps by Social Media Today. 7 tips to take social to the next level by iMedia Connection. Social Media Facts and Stats.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Most of the tools in the space focus on Twitter, we focus on Facebook Pages, YouTube and Twitter. Just like social networking sites, niche networks of practice and purpose, are powerful and unique. Just like social networking sites, niche networks of practice and purpose, are powerful and unique.

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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. If we like it we want to pass it around to our network so that they can interact with it.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some companies (such as Domino's which I also wrote about here: [link] ) have gotten better at acting like they are all of those buzz words like transparent, human, conversational, engaging, etc. You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&#

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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.

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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] Mark Levy Great list Jay.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website&# ) contains a blocked word or phrase. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. link] jaybaer Indeed.

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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] Mark Levy Great list Jay.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. It would be nice to see a bloggers only social network.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Although ironically, I wouldn't exactly hold up Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, or YouTube as fantastic customer service examples either. Just in time marketing, combined with social listening, equals brand kinship and word-of-mouth that you cannot purchase with a commercial. That is troubling. link] jaybaer Perfect!

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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.

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APRIL 27, 2010

[link] Clinton Bonner This so reminds me of Christoph Waltz's acceptance speech for best supporting actor at this year's Oscars for his role in Inglorious Bastards… Everyone has to do the obligatory “thank you(s)&# just as an element of Randy's job was to provide the information he needed to convey … If you haven't (..)

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It's also about how the brand has set up the Twitter account or accounts: are they just selling, giving deals; is it a genuine customer service contact point; are they engaging with followers and brand advocates, directing conversations beyond Twitter to blogs, YouTube, other channels? Same goes for location based social networks.

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