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Twitter Alerts - TweetBeep.com
If you love Twitter, you'll love TweetBeep! Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates ! You can even keep track of who's tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?!
Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Your Company Blog
Unfortunately, if approached incorrectly, a company blog has just as much potential to embarrass your company or alienate customers. Mashable recently asked Karr, internet marketing experts, and small business bloggers about the most common mistakes that companies make when starting a blog — and how to avoid them. Don’t take starting a company blog lightly. Even if only a handful of people visit it at first, those few people will likely be clients or have the potential to become them.
Which Social Sites Are Best for Which Marketing Outcomes? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Is Flickr good for SEO? Can Tumblr drive traffic? If these questions are part of your day-to-day work, hold onto your hats; here’s an infographic that’s actually useful for a change.
4 Ways to Set Up a Storefront on Facebook
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With more than 500 million active users on Facebook, there are more potential customers using Facebook than there are logging into eBay and Amazon combined. Most of these users don’t see the site as a purchasing platform, but more and more businesses are adding an option to use the social networking site to browse and buy their products. These four Facebook apps offer flexible options for adding a storefront to your business page. Free beta app Payvment allows you to handle your entire e-commerce operation through Facebook.Desktop Farming: 10 Gadgets for Growing a Cubicle Garden
A bit of foliage can make all the difference to a workplace, bringing a little bit of nature indoors in all its green and air-purifying glory. If you’re stuck in a cubicle, or behind a desk, then we’ve got 10 excellent gadgets, gizmos and other solutions that will see you enjoying the pleasures of desktop gardening in no time at all. If you like the idea of introducing a bit of the natural world to your workstation, have a look at the gallery below and let us know which options get your green fingers twitching. The coming-soon Click & Grow plant pots are due to be available in April, 2011.
March 7, 2011, 5:34 AM PST Takeaway: If you’re interested in technology and you want to know who to follow on Twitter, here is a directory of leading tech journalists, commentators, and personalities, divided by categories and specialties. As I’ve been saying for years, Twitter can be an extremely valuable tool for techies — if you know who to use it. The most important factor in making Twitter useful is knowing who to follow. To help people interested in technology, I published a list of 100 techies on Twitter in 2009 and then updated the list to 140 techies in 2010. It’s time to update the list again, since lots of new tech commentators and personalities have joined Twitter during the past year and I’ve discovered some new names worth following.
Techies: 2011 directory of who to follow on Twitter | TechRepublic
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Using @Screenr to create and embed some kick butt training vignettes for a presentation. *LOVE* this website by @Articulate! #rocks —ross_sanders I am so in love with http://screenr.com/ @Screenr Easy way to do short video tutorials! Working on a Wordpress HOW TO package 4 my clients —paintermommy I'm v impressed with @screenr - I remember when you had to shell out £00s to get this quality of screencast, now it's free!
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I love the web bullshit generator. I've been dared to write a spec for our site that includes at least one per paragraph — it's too tempting not to take the challenge. Thanks!! — Nicholas H. This is very clever, but your verbs are often real verbs.
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Say you’re the head of social media for a franchise operation like Starbucks or State Farm Insurance, and you’re trying to coordinate all of your company’s social media campaigns, not only at the international level, but locally as well. Not only do you want corporate HQ engaging customers, but you want local owners to do the same as well. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. How do you make sure people at all levels have the tools they need to manage multiple social presences? How do you monitor the progress of thousands of local agents and franchises?
Hearsay Combines Corporate & Local Social Media Management
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Search over 590 popular social networks, over 150 domain names, and the entire USPTO Trademark Database to instantly secure your brand on the internet. KnowEm allows you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 590 popular and emerging social media websites. Grab your name and secure your brand before someone else does. Learn moreOnline conversations don’t wait . To engage your audience you need to be responsive now. Activity streams show who, when and where your audience is engaging in real-time.