30+ Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed. If you've been shirking your social media reading responsibilities this week, here's your chance to make it right.
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16 Lessons on Using Social Media for Business. It's been over 6 months now since I started this blog with the aim of sharing a few ideas, developing my own book content and learning about the social web.
As a result, I've learnt a few things along the way that I wanted to share with you so that you can apply them to your business if you are using social media or are thinking about using social media in your business. Here are the 16 lessons that I've learnt so far: Define your goals to keep you on track — this all has to have a purpose otherwise how will you know what you are doing, where you are going, what you are creating and how you are getting on.
We can be everywhere — the internet opens up potential markets across the globe and, so, thinking globally will help you expand your reach. Don't be limited by geography. These things I have not learnt in isolation but have learnt from a number of people. What lessons have you learned? Thanks to thiquinho for the image Link to original post Connect: Authored by: Adrian Swinscoe.
The Comms Corner. AP Stylebook Adds 42 New Guidelines for Social Media. The AP Stylebook has released its new social media guidelines, including the official change from “Web site” to “website” (a move first reported back in April) and 41 other definitions, use cases and rules that journalists should follow.
Among the more interesting changes –- at least from a grammar and style standpoint –- are separating out “smart phone” as two words, hyphenating “e-reader,” and allowing fan, friend and follow to be used both as nouns and verbs. Beyond that, the AP has also defined a number of acronyms that are commonly used in texting and instant messaging. While most of them should be fairly well-known to regular web and mobile phone users (ROFL, BRB and G2G are among the definitions) one actually was new to me: POS. According to the AP, this stands for “parent over shoulder” (I’ve used POS to refer to something else occasionally, but I digress), and is used by “teens and children to indicate, in an IM conversation, that a parent is approaching.”