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If so, you're not alone. According to the Content Marketing Institute, the lion's share of marketers (some 92%) report using content marketing. In the fast moving world of digital strategy, things are always changing. What should you expect in 2014 to change in the world of content marketing? Hana Abaza of Uberflip has put together an infographic detailing five key content marekting trends for the coming year. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Social media tools that marketers shouldn't miss - iMediaCo. In many ways, 2009 was the year of the "a-ha!
" moment for social media marketing. While many people long-involved with social media and word-of-mouth marketing knew it was only a matter of time for the masses to embrace this type of marketing, others were just starting to get their arms around the importance of establishing and leveraging their social footprint to build engagement, dialogue, and awareness. As more companies, brands, and individuals are building their social media presences, the universe of online tools -- which used to be somewhat more limited -- continues to expand on a daily basis. Social Media and Web 2.0. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has launched some Web 2.0 technologies and has signed agreements to create National Archives sites on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr.
NARA is using these tools and sites to create new ways of communicating with the public and we look forward to your feedback. Below is a comprehensive list of NARA's social media initiatives and those of our affiliate organizations. Please visit us often to see NARA's expanding Web 2.0 and social media projects. Twitter is not a product of the National Archives. These links will direct you out of the National Archives web-site. Worried About Being Copied? A business associate came up with a new idea that has the potential of providing real value to the marketplace. In sharing the idea he expressed concerned about taking it to market for fear that someone else would copy it and steal the opportunity away from him.
So faced with a real opportunity to create value and revenue how does one overcome their fear of an idea being stolen? Ideas Require Execution Ideas flow daily but any idea is only as good as the execution. Execution takes knowledge, management, people, processes and technology. Tacit knowledge is not easily shared. The tacit aspects of knowledge are those that cannot be codified, but can only be transmitted via training or gained through personal experience. HOW TO: Use Social Media to Connect with Other Entrepreneurs. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
Starting a company is often a lonely and nerve wracking process. One day, you’re working at a big company with tens of thousands of people and health benefits, and then the next day it’s just you, maybe a co-founder, and a lack of steady income. Yet you’re really not alone. There are thousands of others making similar journeys around the world, and even more who have not only gone down the entrepreneurial path, but succeeded. HOW TO: Take Advantage of Social Media in Your E-mail Marketing. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
You’ve most likely had an e-mail newsletter for your company for much longer than you’ve had a presence on social media sites. But now that you do both, the two can go hand-in-hand, with e-mail creating an opportunity to extend your presence on social media sites, and social media sites providing a way to get more e-mail subscribers. At the moment though, most marketers aren’t connecting the dots. According to a recent study published by eMarketer, 48% of marketers include “forward to a friend” features in their e-mails, but only 13% include features that make it easy to share content on social networks. The 10 Stages of Social Media Integration in Business. InShare40 What follows is the unabridged version of my post on Mashable, “The 10 Stages of Social Media Business Integration.“ An overnight success ten plus years in the making, Social Media is as transformative as it is evolutionary.
With every day that passes, we are presented with increasing reports that showcase the impact of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs within small and large businesses alike. About Us. Oracle Social Relationship Management delivers the first, unified solution for social monitoring, marketing, applications, engagement and analysis, and it fully integrates products from Vitrue including Publisher, Tabs, Shops, Games, Open Graph Object and Analytics.
It's Not Rocket Science - How To Build a Better Blog Commun. This is a guest post from Matt Cheuvront and is part of the Guest Blog Grand Tour over at Life Without Pants – an epic journey of over 75 guest posts.
Want to learn more about Matt & see how far the rabbit hole goes? Subscribe to the Life Without Pants RSS feed & follow him on Twitter to keep in touch! I’m still a newb to this whole blogging thing. Those of you who know me might think I’m talking crazy, but no, seriously, this is still a relatively new scene to me when I think about the fact that a year ago – I wasn’t here, I didn’t have a blog, I knew none of you reading this, and I was at a completely different place in my life. But in the past year – some pretty amazing things have happened both on and off my blog. Recently I’ve had the pleasure of sitting down with a couple of people I really respect who wanted to interview me as an “up and coming” thought leader.
That’s the $100 question isn’t it? SMP - Social Media Portal - News and information directory. Professional Goals for a Social Media Strategist. I don’t usually blog about my professional self, but blogging at 8:30 pm on December 31, 2009 will do that do you.
Inspired by Joe Waters’s post about his 2010 professional goals, I decided to take a moment and fill you in on where I’m heading in the next year. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, I thank Joe for a great idea. Blog Ideas I began this blog on December 15, 2008 with a post about the basic principles of Community Organizing, and their application to social media. Over the past year, I’ve published 80 blog posts, and I’m pleased to say that I have readers and subscribers now, too! Sharing at Work. The Place where Faculty Connect. Larry Brauner's Public Library. Social Media 2010 - Work Literacy. 50 Awesome Online Lectures for Social Media Masters. By Olivia Coleman Social media addicts and the developers, designers and business managers who run social media sites have totally revolutionized the way the rest of us get our news, network, promote our businesses, and connect with (and meet) friends.
It has come a long way since it was first launched as a MySpace 2.0 for college students – now everyone from working professionals to high school students are getting in on the action. Students attending online universities are jumping into the social media bandwagon as a means to network in their field and stay connected to classmates all while working from home. If you think you’re a social media smarty-pants, check out this list of 50 awesome online lectures dealing with social psychology, member-driven community structure, identity, etiquette, and marketing. You will be amazed to learn how social media is changing the way we learn, do business, socialize, and entertain ourselves. General. 10 Must-Do Marketing Tips for 2010 : Innovation. Nov 09: Top 150 Social Media Marketing Influencers.
There are 15,740 Social Media Experts on Twitter. Social media is growing fast, but how fast? Using Tweepsearch to search bios on Twitter profiles, blogger B. L. Ochman found there were 4,487 social media experts in May 2009. Today there are 15,740. The stats, which include variations like social media- "guru", "ninja" and "superstar," show that "marketer" is by far the most-used name. There's amusement to be found in the numbers, too: The blog Broadstuff points out that "This represents a 3.5x increase every six months.
That humorous observation raises a legitimate point: A growing industry needs trust and reputation. Without it, such stats provide fodder for those who would say that social media — which is touching every industry from entertainment to air travel — is simply hot air. The Social Media World Map. Social Media Academy - Education and Research check it out http: InSocialMedia.com. 20 Questions To Start a Social Media Discussion.
My picks for the 99 most useful Social Media (and PR) Blog posts. Social Media Academy Blog. 12 Social Media New Year’s Resolutions For 2010. Since 2010 is right around the corner, I wanted to get a bit proactive on our New Year’s resolutions, and do it social media style.
There are so many issues in the social realm that this list could be endless, but I chose the 12 most important items to work on in social media in 2010. As you may know, there is no right answer in social media; each company is different, but each of these points can be adjusted for any company. Social by Social - A community around using social tech for soci. 5 Things You Must Ask About Social Media. Everyone seems to be asking a lot of questions about social media. Subsequently everyone has an opinion as to the answers to these very questions. The questions are all over the place from how to produce results to what technology to use and how. To say the least there are hundreds of different answers to each question asked. 85 Resources: Educator Guide for Integrating Social Media.
I hope this post will be a handy reference guide, especially for those teachers new to social media technologies and how to integrate them into the classroom. This resource is by no means exhaustive, but it’s a good starting point for finding the information and people that will help you make the transition into a ’21st century learning environment’. I intend for this to be a wikipost (I will update resources as they are shared with me by others), so feel free to bookmark the page and check in periodically for new material.
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I sat across the lunch table talking to Craig Bruenderman and Sam Gracie of ResonantVibes.com yesterday, talking about their community of electronic mix music producers and fans, smiling at what I heard. These are young, tech-oriented entrepreneurs, immersed in all the code and programming most of us fear. They use social tools to build their business around. They’re digital natives. What did they say that made me smile? Top Ten Best Visualization Tools for Social Media, Blogosphere, HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume. Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog. Brand Elevation Through Social Media and Social Business.
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