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Try as he might, Mark Zuckerberg is no Steve Jobs. On Wednesday, the Facebook CEO told a group of reporters that the social network plans to “ launch something awesome ” next week. Tech blogs have speculated that it’s either an iPad app or a photo-sharing app for the iPhone. Facebook has declined to offer any further explanations.
Facebook tells reporters to expect ‘something awesome’ | Articles
These days, it takes nearly a half-dozen apps to keep up with all our fragmented social networks. But a new app out today called Banjo aims to solve those disconnections by integrating all your social networks into one streamlined service. We shoot out quick updates to friends on Facebook . Tweet out our thoughts on Twitter. Upload our pictures on Instagram.
Social Media App Banjo Aggregates All Your Tweets, Facebook Posts, Instagram Pics | Fast Company
Your boss doesn’t want you to explain why social media is amazing. Your boss wants more results that make her look good. Your boss doesn’t care who I am.
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The History of Social Networking | Fast Company
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. In case you hadn't heard, social networking is big. Sites like Facebook and Twitter dominate the tech news sites with every move they make getting attention. How much are they worth? Who's using them now? What changes are coming?This article is part of week-long series of social media stories, which you can read by clicking here . A new report predicts four out of five businesses will implement social media strategies in 2011—but just how they do that remains to be seen. BusinessNewsDaily recently interviewed dozens of digital visionaries, whose eyes are locked on social media trends. They all made bold predictions for how businesses will use social media in the next 12 months. We narrowed the list to these five: Employee recruitment shifts primarily to the web
5 Ways Businesses Will Use Social Media in 2011 | Social Networking Predictions | Business News Daily
Public Relations for 2011- Small Bites
I’m not a public relations professional, but lots of PR people read this blog for ideas on how social software and social networks are changing the business. I want to offer some thoughts for 2011: small bites but a larger meal. Let’s get into it.
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How to Engage with Bloggers on Twitter
This isn’t just another post telling you how to Tweet. Presuming you can make your fingers hit the keys and form actual words, you pretty much know how to Tweet. Beyond that, I’m not a big fan of Twitter how-to’s or rules – I reckon Twitter is a platform and it’s totally up to you what you use it for, providing you’re within the bounds of decency and the law.
Building An Online Community: How To Start From 0 Members - FeverBee - The Online Community Guide
Starting from 0 members is hard. We don’t discuss it enough. There are many ways to start an online community. It’s easier if you already have an audience. Darren Rowse , Ramit Sethi , Seth Godin etc can launch huge online communities in a matter of days (but they spent years building up that audience first). If you don't have engaged audience, this should help.The Social Network: Ecosystem vs. Egosystem
Of all the social networks competing for our online persona and social graph, Twitter is special . The culture and self-governing rules of engagement shaped by the “me” in social media, create a personalized experience that looks and feels less like a “social” network and instead, creates an empowering information exchange. Twitter is at the heart of the Web’s evolving egosystem and its archetype is powerful and quite understated. For better or worse, Twitter introduces the notion of notion of popularity, whereby the numbers of followers and also the friend to follower ratio we possess indicate ones stature within Twitterverse . As I’ve said over the years, popularity does not beget influence , but the egosystem and all who define it, do in fact reward and nurture it.Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant - The Steve Rubel Stream
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips.7 crucial questions for formulating your social media PR plan | Article |
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How social are your customers, really? In our industry it seems this question is asked and answered a lot, but clients still have a hard time understanding exactly how social their customers are. Their confusion usually stems from lack of knowledge on where customers are concentrated so they can effectively target their efforts, a possible disconnect with demographic data, not knowing how much customers participate, and not knowing where to get the right information about their customers. Let's examine each of these areas, and try to effectively figure out just how social your customers really are. Where Are Your Customers? The most important factor when developing a social media marketing strategy is figuring out where your customers are.
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An excellent list of items to consider by May 21
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