By starting an event, you’re positioning yourself as a leader and an expert, which is great for your personal brand. You can use it to promote almost anything; it only needs to be something related to a specific date and a location. It doesn’t have to be a traditional event though. You can use it to promote a product launch,
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New Survey Shows Highly Connected SocialMoms Prefer Intimacy Over Virtual Connections This Valentine’s Day SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 13, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — If given the choice to go without one thing for Valentine’s Day, about 76% of social media savvy women choose to give up Facebook over sex with their spouse or partner, according to a new survey by
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Not many things can be as hot topic responding as the issue around the fur trade. First let me make it clear, I am not wading into that debate! I am only using this as an example of how things can go wrong quickly in social media and this is a great example. Your company may very well sell lawn
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I am not sure when Facebook upgraded their photo album uploading tool as lately I have been just posting a photo here and there through my iPhone app. The weekend however gave me a chance to create a new album as I had some photos to upload from my son’s hockey tournament. Here are some of the things that
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Again without warning, Facebook changed. This time for the better. Photos and comments are now side by side this morning. With larger monitors it makes sense and I like the non scrolling deal.
If your business is online, then you should be aware of the power of not only integrating it with a Facebook page and common sense SEO, but also utilizing the social sharing. Those are the icons you see associated on this blog with the numbers beside the icons. Hubspot has this great infographic in its latest release “How to Use
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I did some lateral thinking about how the implementation of a social platform for Google+ can have some pretty far reaching impacts on the Google location services Earth. Here is what I was thinking. In the fall, Google announced that service reached 1 billion downloads of the Google Earth desktop client, the Google Earth browser plug-in and the Google Earth
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With the power of it’s search engine behind it, Google is making it harder to cheat about who you actually are – well in terms of your name anyway – on their new social platform Google+. This is an effort on part to stem the tide of spam accounts. Google’s user terms of service requires you to use your proper
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All too often in Facebook I see posts as the following format. There is wasted opportunity by posting in this manner and also the inclusion of the URL is just plain ugly. Facebook has not made it easy to figure out, but you can make this a lot better. Not to mention I don’t even see the post title
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Search marketing has proven its marketing worth by driving traffic, brand value and an audience ready to convert. Social media – encompassing news, bookmarking and knowledge sites such as Digg and Wikipedia as well as networking and sharing sites such as Facebook and YouTube – provides huge audiences, lots of brand conversations and an entirely new marketing frontier. There are
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