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This is a great infographic to help you decide which social network you should use for particular purposes. Check out when it's best to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. This infographic has all you need to know to leverage social networks.
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Twitter tools, tips and tactics to find and engage with your audience. Follow these steps to build a relevant Twitter following. Delete the scoop?
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Check out how these businesses are implementing innovative social media marketing practices with great results and pick up a few social media marketing tips. Delete the scoop?
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Social media brings every marketer’s worse fears to the fore, especially on Friday the Thirteenth. Delete the scoop?
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Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person ...
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Web community that provides youth Internet safety related news, guides and resources for educators and parents.
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Splash Media U shows you how identifying the top Twitter influencers can open up opportunities for networking, brand expansion, and engagement.
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Splash Media University explains the benefits of creating a LinkedIn company page and how to do it properly.
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Joining with other applications that have been modified for use with Facebook's new timeline format, StumbleUpon is the latest application to upgrade to take advantage of its capabilities. The timeline-upgraded StumbleUpon app follows the patterns of other apps that have integrated the new layout, grouping together StumbleUpon activity, including likes and interests, channels, or Stumblers being followed.
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Author Dan Zarrella, who refers to himself as the "social media scientist," devised a way to gather information about more than 11,000 of Pinterest's pinned images and did some analysis to create the infographic in this post. He says this data should be useful for Pinterest users who want to get more repins on the images they’ve pinned, as well as content producers who want their content pinned and repinned more.
To do this analysis, Zarrella said he wasn't able to obtain the data from Pinterest because the company "has been slow to release its APIs". I didn't know what an API was, so I consulted PC.com for the definition: An API is an "Application Programming Interface, a language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol." So now you know!
So instead of using Pinterest's APIs, Zarrella said he was able to use search engine APIs to pull some data about Pinterest. And that's how he did this analysis.
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If you write a blog or plan to one day, this post offers some ideas on how to be recognized as a top blog in your industry.
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The rising popularity of Pinterest is sending users to the site in droves; however, this vast influx of visitors unfamiliar with the accepted etiquette can lead to established users becoming offended at the types of pins being pinned.
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Are you wondering how to visually enhance your Timeline Facebook page? This article provides five actionable tips you can employ now.
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Roxanne Miller: SOCIAL MEDIA LEARNING OP! See my suggestions below on how you can learn more about using Twitter by comparing and contrasting these 11 Twitter sites listed on @Mashable by Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media.
Although this isn't a "how-to" article, I chose it because I think there's real value in seeing good examples when you're learning a skill. For those of you new to Twitter or wanting to learn how to use Twitter more effectively, check out these 11 influencers named by Kerpen. "There are too many great professionals on Twitter to commend them all, but these eleven have become particularly successful influencers," he said.
I see a greater educational benefit from this post. Do some critical thinking about this info. Learn from a PR perspective how to create a Twitter presence that reflects YOU by comparing and contrasting these sites. BEFORE looking at each of these sites, I suggest you consider the following points as a guide for your browsing.
1. Click successively on each Twitter site below. Note the following for each: **Twitter handle (name with @ symbol) **Profile photo/image **Profile description **Amount of social interaction 2. How does each Twitter site differ? 3. Are any of these Twitter sites at all similar? If so, in what way? 4. Do you think their text/design/photo/image choices enhance or detract from their site? 5. What impression do you have about the person and his or her company, based on the Twitter site? 6. Do you see a way YOU would change any of these sites if it were YOUR SITE? 7. Do you have any suggestions on how YOU would improve any of these sites? 8. Suggest other questions?
Give any feedback/comments below! View as slide show or on one page. Here you go for a quick browse:
Top Fashion Designer, Betsey Johnson, @xoBetseyJohnson: http://twitter.com/xoBetseyJohnson
Top Accountant, John Pointon, @JPointon:
Top Politician, Cory Booker, Mayor, Newark, NJ, @corybooker:
Top Teacher, Salman Khan, Khan Academy, @khanacademy: http://twitter.com/khanacademy
Top Journalist, Anderson Cooper, CNN, @andersoncooper: http://twitter.com/andersoncooper
Top Doctor, Krupali Tejura, MD, Radiation Oncologist, @Krupali:
Top CEO, Dennis Crowley, CEO/Founder of Foursquare, @Dens:
Top Chef, Fabio Viviani, @FabioViviani: http://twitter.com/FabioViviani
Top Photographer, Anthony Quintano, NBC News, @AnthonyQuintano http://twitter.com/AnthonyQuintano [Photography buffs: Find Anthony on Instagram (for iPhone and Android mobile users), download app free at http://Instagram.com. ~ RTM]
Top CMO, Karen Quintos, Sr VP and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Dell, @KarenDellCMO: http://twitter.com/KarenDellCMO
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How to create custom Facebook business page tabs in the new Facebook page design.
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How to Measure the ROI of Your Social Media Campaign using Analytics (Rt @jeremarketer: Nerdy & useful from @MarketingBuddy courtesy of @DougBratman on measuring social media marketing ROI: http://t.co/4zVOTPhb...)...
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Twitter is a wildly popular microblogging service. It involves writing Tweets, which are short updates of a maximum of 140 characters.
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Everyone on Twitter wants more people to click on their tweets. This post explains 15 ways to increase the click-through rate on your tweet.
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Now that you’ve taken the steps to create your company website, what do you do now? Now you face the challenge of actually bringing in new, qualified traffic. After all, that’s how you will make more sales and increase your customer base. In this post by Ilya Pozin on Fortune.com, the author describes in detail how to drive traffic to your website using the following 10 proven tactics. I find this post very helpful because the author explains his terms and does not assume the reader knows that much about the topic. Great for newbies!
1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 2. Blogging and guest blogging 3. Pay-per-click (PPC) Internet advertising 4. Retargeting ads 5. Facebook ads 6. YouTube 7. Email marketing 8. Word of mouth (forums, Facebook fan pages, etc.) 9. Social media 10. Public relations
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This article explains personal branding and advocates that LinkedIn users focus more on being active rather than passive participants. Author Jason Ball of GoodPeople Japan offers several helpful resources to learn more about personal branding and how to do it effectively. Ball criticizes the overabundance of LinkedIn how-to articles that tell people how to set up their Profiles. Instead of this focus, he advocates that LinkedIn users devote more energy to crafting their personal brands.
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"If you're a fan of LinkedIn's product tab targeting on your LinkedIn company page, then you're absolutely going to love this," according to Pamela Vaughan of HubSpot, who authored this post. She says Business Insider reported on 4/10/2012 that LinkedIn will introduce two new features for company pages: 'Targeted Updates' and 'Follower Statistics.' The new features are currently only available to early release partners such as AT&T, Samsung Mobile, Dell, and Microsoft. But Vaughan said "we caught up with our contacts at LinkedIn to grab some screenshots, and here's what we marketers can look forward to when LinkedIn releases the features to all company page administrators, coming soon."
This post offers information about the newest targeting and reporting functionality released by LinkedIn, and how to use it.
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Author Brad Shorr, Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North, offers 50 blogging tips essential for successful business blogging and blog marketing. Although he targets this post to newbie bloggers to "save you a lot of time, and perhaps a little heartache as well," I think his tips can be used in other aspects of social media as well. I especially like his categories that let you scan his tips quickly to find what's of interest to you:
--Blogging strategy --Design and functionality --SEO (Search Engine Optimization) --Writing for Web --Social sharing
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"If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can."
So says Jeffrey Zwelling, CEO of cross-channel marketing technology company Convertro, who wrote this guest blog on VentureBeat. He presents data from his company's perspective to illustrate the impact Pinterest is having in the social media world. His latest data shows that Pinterest is "the fastest growing social media traffic source for e-commerce websites in terms of revenue."
To back this up, he says that in the 2nd Quarter of 2011, Pinterest.com represented 1.2% of social media revenue for e-commerce sites, and "it now represents 17.4% and is quickly gaining on Facebook." (That shift from 1.2% to 17.4% is based on measurements Convertro made across 40 of its client sites — most of which are top 500 internet retailers.)
Zwelling projects that Pinterest will be responsible for 40% of social media e-commerce transactions by the end of 2nd Quarter 2012, reducing Facebook’s share to slightly under 60% from 86% a year ago.
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[Note: This "Social Media in 7 Minutes" post was updated by its author, Tom Bukacek, CEO of Black Box Social Media LLC (tbuk100 on Squidoo.com) on 03/04/2012.]
New to social media and trying to figure it out? You're not alone!
For a quick overview, check out this post that includes a 7-minute introductory video about social media. Author Tom Bukacek explains social media this way:
"Social media is exploding in popularity on the web. The social implies the sharing with friends and family aspect and the media describes the different methods of communications, from text to pictures to videos and more. Simply put, social media is an electronic form of social communication used on the Internet that doesn't just inform the users, but allows for many individuals to interact and engage with others."
I like the multimedia approach of this post, including a video, infographic, text and links to other helpful resources created by Black Box Social Media.
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Here are six ways to effectively incorporate social media into your brand's next event.
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