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In Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' book, On Death and Dying , she says people go through five stages, when it comes to grief and tragedy. She originally applied these stages to people suffering from terminal illness and later to any form of catastrophic personal loss (job, income, or freedom). Once a hospital exec starts to see past his or her denial, they'll get mad. At this stage, there is a tendency to react with irrational behavior, outrageous litigation, and general discontent with the web (as a marketing vehicle) itself. At this stage, reluctant hospital leaders will start to see that social media is not a fad.
The 5 stages of social media grieving (for hospital execs) | Articles
3. Consume information in your niche and follow/comment on other blogs regularly and often (especially on blogs of potential A clients). This introduces you to people you want to influence and positions you as an expert. 4.
Top 5 Ways a Firm Succeeds at Social Media | Savvy Social Media Marketing
I was going to write something completely different than what turned up below but somehow this article emerged. Over the last 12 months I have come up against a lot of reasons and excuses to not use “Social Media”, “New Media”, Digital Marketing” or embrace the “ New Rules of Marketing “. It certainly doesn’t mean that you have to discard what is currently working in your marketing program and it doesn’t mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This list is a bit of a “Tongue in Cheek” look at why the CEO still wants to use the Yellow Pages and not embrace the “ New Marketing ” of the 21st century.
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2010/01/11/40-reasons-why-the-ceo-still-uses-the-yellow-pages-and-not-social-media/
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2009/07/14/can-your-customers-find-you-5-tips-to-help-your-seo/
According to a recent study, “more than 60% of websites lack the proper web programming to be ranked properly by Internet search engines.” The conversations I have with my prospective clients as The National Sales and Marketing Manager of the Web Design, Development and Consulting Company Infinity Technologies would seem to strongly suggest (anecodotally) that this would be quite accurate. So how can you optimize your site so your clients can find you. This is a combination of good web design plus additional proactive effort to create and promote good unique content.
Libraries and Archiving – with the use of Crowdsourcing « Getting Results from Crowdsourcing
I came across a very interesting article written by Fiona Sullivan titled Crowdsourcing for Libraries and Archives on the Archives Outside Blog . Fiona’s article shares with us some really useful tips for outsourcing your archive projects, pointing to 7 really interesting facts and insights into using crowdsourcing, with 3 of them being in the field of libraries and archives. Photocopying archives for researchers is a dead end because it provides no digitised copy for use elsewhere; also it exposes documents to unnecessary light, and it often damages them, even when done by library staff.
Study: Edelman No. 1 among large firms for social media sharing | Articles
How often are people sharing content from large PR firms? PostRank , an Ontario-based monitoring firm, analyzed the frequency with which people are sharing content from large firms’ websites on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. PostRank also tracked comments and trackbacks to the content.
Best Practices from Community, Social Media, & Social Business Practitioners Last year social business came of age as organizations got serious about executing in a new, more interactive and collaborative way. These organizations understand that using social technologies successfully requires both business process adaptation and people that understand how to manage these new social environments – at both a tactical and a strategic level. The conversation is no longer primarily about technology but about doing business effectively in a new communications environment. Community management is a critical element of managing networked environments effectively.
The 2011 State of Community Management Report: Best Practices from Practitioners
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Human ingenuity and technology have evolved into a symbiotic relationship, resulting in perpetual advancement and co-dependency. And this statement holds true with the growing ubiquity of the Internet and the explosion of social media today. The advent of readily available access to the Internet through cell phones, wireless Internet locations, and high speed Internet has allowed for the development of Internet devices that have now seemed to integrate themselves seamlessly into our lives. So in this article we will discuss what social media is and what it offers, how we got to where we are today, and how social media affects our daily lives. The development of social media didn’t happen overnight.
So, What's Social Media?
How do you raise awareness about a cause you believe in with no money and no help, while on the brink of homelessness? Mark Horvath is doing it with Invisiblepeople.tv . Once homeless himself, and facing homelessness again after losing his job, Mark decided it was time America really looked at the people who are homeless in this country. Invisiblepeople.tv was born.
How Mark Horvath Is Using Social Media To Change America | SMC Seattle
A new iPhone app called Yobongo is launching Thursday, with plans to make building connections between locally-based, like-minded users easier. The app provides a simple chat-based interface that groups users based on location and seeks to make it easier for people to get to know each other both in-app and in the real world. Yobongo works by selecting people based on where they’re located, and grouping them together in virtual rooms of 10 to 15 users. While the app’s algorithm uses location as a starting point for grouping users together, it never explicitly reveals where a participant is located, ensuring the privacy of its users.
Yobongo: Building the Next Location-Based Social Network: Tech News and Analysis «
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Imagine what could happen if we found a way to tap the single largest natural resource in the world: the pool of good intentions (human & business) that never translate into action. This is an experiment in doing just that. Are you game? It can be anything, really.If you feel that you have had good value out of Property Tribes and would like to make a donation towards the running costs and improvements, it would be very much appreciated
BBC Social Media Editor @AlexGubbay talks about the importance of social media to the BBC ... - Property Tribes
[A guest post from the talented Laura Click ] Your personality online determines whether or not someone will sign on to follow your tweets or read your posts. Just as in real life, your personality matters. Consider your real life friendships.
7 Annoying Social Media Personality Disorders | Pushing Social
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2009/08/08/28-reasons-why-the-ceo-is-afraid-of-social-media/
I talk everyday to clients who want a new website and want to be found online, but the word Social Media doesn’t even enter the conversation and isn’t included in the initial brief. They do know what Social Media is, but they have all these reasons and excuses about why they shouldn’t be integrating it into their company website and include it in their marketing strategy. Well its 1.51am Sunday morning in Sydney, Australia and the answer to that question has to be done at another time.. I will keep you posted!Social Media — Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress
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