Social Media Updates: Page 410
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Are you creating a signal or just noise?
It really pains me to see brands and social media experts pimping for tweets, use of hashtag or RT's.
By Tom Martin • Dec. 21, 2010 -
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How to Use LinkedIn Polls to Market Your Business
Did you ever use the LInkedIn Polls feature? It's another tool you can use to poll your network on any question that you deem relevant.
By Jorgen Sundberg • Dec. 18, 2010 -
The Almighty, The All Powerful...The Tweet
This past week, Twitter revealed 2010's "Twitter Trends"-a snapshot of the top overall topics that have dominated the 95 million tweets a day* sent this past year from across the world.
By Jeff Glasson • Dec. 16, 2010 -
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The Quick Guide to Twitter Chats
I love Twitter Chats. They are simple, easy to do, not demanding, enthralling and highly focused sources of fabulous information. But many people seem to be intimidated by them, and others don't know how to use them so I've decided to write a quick Twitter Chat Guide:What is a Twitter Chat? A Twitter Chat is when a bunch of people all agree to meet on Twitter and discuss a topic at the same time. To make it easy for everyone to see what all of the others are saying they use a #HashTag.
By Chris Kieff • Dec. 16, 2010 -
Facebook can be a recruiters best friend
Recruiting has never been an easy job. You really have to be able to pick up cues from candidates to determine how they will fit if you hire them for your organization.To do that well it takes skill, time and even some luck. I know there were recruiters that just wished, especially when they were undecided on a candidate if they could just be a fly on the wall to see them in the real world to determine if they would be a good hire.
By Sandy Miller • Dec. 14, 2010 -
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Do Retweets Matter?
Sometime ago I spoke at London Blog Club about value-based blogging.
By Scott Gould • Dec. 14, 2010 -
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Hidden Failures - Abandoned Twitter Business Accounts
Several times I've noted that the few business successes that occur involving social media are repeated over and over, even when they aren't real successes, while the failures are silent and unnoticed. The social media pundits and evangelists don't seem to want to deal with that. So, here are a few specifics, garnered from the list of people I follow and am followed by via my @socialmediabust Twitter account.Thes are accounts (along with particulars - followers, # of tweets, and last post) that have "gone dark" recently.
By Robert Bacal • Dec. 9, 2010 -
Social CRM - Thank you Ben & Jerry's: a brand that's social, for real
Lots of brands are on Twitter and Facebook, but only a few actually listen to or interact with people. Ben & Jerry's is not only paying attention, they're working 24/7 trying to make people happy.That's the real-life, real-time embodiment of Social CRM - managing the social presence of a brand to develop positive engagement across all platforms.
By BL Ochman • Dec. 9, 2010 -
14 Ways to Get LinkedIn to a Better Career
LinkedIn is a great tool for networking, promoting your services, finding a job and managing remote projects. Here are 14 ways you can use it to advance your career: Position yourself as an expert. Tie your blog posts and Twitter feeds into your profile. Display your industry awa...
By Rick Alcantara • Dec. 9, 2010 -
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Facebook and Twitter Doomed?...Chicken Crap
Note: I have corrected (8DEC2010) this article to correct the authorship of the blog in question.
By Paul Kiser • Dec. 7, 2010 -
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Link Building With Twitter
Getting your head around the recent stats revealing that the 10 billionth tweet was posted in March 2010 and more than 600 million searches happen on Twitter every day may still not persuade some as to exactly how business can tangibly benefit in real ROI terms.
By Daren Bach • Dec. 7, 2010 -
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Stupidity, not social media, to blame for celebrity downfalls
In an era in which social media is an increasingly common part of everyone's lives, it staggers me that public figures remain mystified when the medium is used against them. Take the case of disgraced Australian sports star Joel Monaghan, the footballer who allowed his teammates to photograph him...
By Jay Pring • Dec. 7, 2010 -
5 Reasons Why Customised Snap-Tags Are The Perfect Social Media Marketing Tool
Last week I wrote about the ways in which customised snap-tags go hand-in hand with both traditional PR and social media campaigns. After a week spent looking further into the world of Snap-Tags I have outlined 5 key points below as to why more and more companies will soon be jumping on board.
By George Guildford • Dec. 6, 2010 -
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