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26 Tips for Integrating Social Media Activities

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/integrating-social-media-activities/ Are you seeking ideas to integrate your social activities? To be successful, no social media effort can truly exist as an island. Today, more and more businesses are seeking ways to integrate components of social media to achieve optimal benefits .
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44 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Friday marked the much-anticipated Facebook IPO , and boy, do we have have a lot of resources for that topic.

15 Great Social Media Quotes

http://shanebarker.com/15-great-social-media-quotes/ As most of the people that frequent my blog already know, I am a huge advocate of social media and how you can leverage it for your business or to improve or maintain your reputation online.

Twitter Wanted to Buy Instagram

Facebook snapped up photo-sharing app Instagram last week for $1 billion, but the social network wasn't the only one interested in purchasing the photo-filtering wonder app. Twitter "expressed interest" in purchasing Instagram just a few months ago, according to the New York Times . http://mashable.com/2012/04/16/twitter-buy-instagram/#58063Sepia-Galore
Social Media is not magic, nor does it surprising tricks, you will need more than magic to succeed.

Social Media isn’t Magic – It’s about Staying Human on the Internet

http://socialmediatoday.com/isra-garcia/488521/social-media-isn-t-magic-it-s-about-staying-human-internet
http://socialmediatoday.com/james-debono/480927/13-reasons-why-using-social-media-business-non-negotiable Is there ever a time when having a social media presence is an option?

13 Reasons Why Using Social Media for Business is Non-Negotiable!

The Future of Photo-Sharing Apps

The tiny Instagram app grew to a gigantic 27 million users during its first year in the App Store. It has inspired real-life Instameet-ups, Instagram art shows and a community based on love for the image, where users can post and receive feedback from other visual thinkers. http://readwrite.com/2012/04/02/the_future_of_photo-sharing_apps
Joe Chernov is the VP of Content Marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand. Marketers are suckers for a catch phrase, from “join the conversation” to “think like a publisher.”

10 Ways to Humanize Your Brand on Social Media

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We live in a society that puts the dollar above the customer. That is, corners are cut and customer service is subservient to getting “paid.” Don’t get me wrong, I like getting paid as much as the next person but too many times we question the return before we implement any kind of customer service process that influences both repeat business and word-of-mouth.

Why Relationships Matter and ROI Doesn’t

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http://www.tnooz.com/2012/03/14/news/social-media-in-travel-by-numbers-video/ Excellent video, though social media remains vastly misunderstood in hospitality. To start with, social media is not a distribution channel in hospitality. Despite the monumental efforts by many hotel marketers in the past four years to use social media as a “new and revolutionary” distribution channel in hospitality and travel, they all failed miserably.

Social media in travel by numbers [VIDEO]

Last week, Mashable’s Sarah Kessler authored an article about Pinterest clones which focused on sites that have copied the look, feel, and/or overall functionality of social media’s most recent phenom. What I haven’t seen though, are posts that put forth some higher order thinking around the act of curating content and what that means for individuals and for social media in general. Before going any further, let’s agree on a definition.

Pinterest’s Impact on Social Media is Worth So Much More Than 1,000 Words

7 Brands Using Instagram Right

Mobile photo sharing is one of the fastest growing social media trends and it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any time soon.
The rage in social networks right now is Pinterest , partly because it’s probably the first social network that has a much higher adoption rate by females than males, and partly because it’s an interesting concept: somewhere between visual social bookmarking and scrapbooking.

The Next Social Networks

A confession: I don’t know much about branding.

So That’s What “Build Your Brand Story” Means!

How to build your network on LinkedIn

With Utah's unemployment rate around 6.4 percent, it is more important than ever to proactively build a network of professionals who can aid you in searching for a job.