I have been involved in the beta for Hootsuite 2.0 and had the opporunity to connect with Ryan Holmes President of Invoke Media. For our book Sociable! I interviewed Ryan about the soon to be released version of Hootsuite. It is loaded with features, analytics and tools that business users of Twitter can really benefit from
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Hootsuite 2.0 Twitter App Interview with Ryan Holmes


From http://www.closingbigger.net 5004 days ago
Podcast on Integrating Social Media Into Your Sales and Marketing Process


From http://www.closingbigger.net 5006 days ago
Today's social media podcast is on Integrating Social Media into Your Sales and Marketing Process. I will discuss the Social Media Matrix that Stephen Jagger and I developed for Sociable! as well as the 7 Steps to Strategic Engagement and Integration which are:
1. Identify Your Goal
2. Identify Your Target Audience
3. Pick the Right
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Social Networks Are More Than Networking


From http://www.fastcompany.com 5006 days ago
Social networks, there's a lot of them out there and you're being invited to participate in new ones every day. There's MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn. There's eCademy, Plaxo, Ning, Bebo, Friendster. Jaiku, Orkut, Tumblr, and more than I can mention here. The question is, which ones do you use? Which ones are the most important? It depends on who
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6 Ways to Improve LinkedIn Groups


From http://salesblogcast.com 5007 days ago
Who is LinkedIn listening to for new ideas? I am still scratching my head over the decision to add subgroups. I think there are so many other group management tools that need to be added before a subgroup option becomes valuable. Here is my list of 6 ways to improve LinkedIn groups!
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22 Social Media Tips Under 140 Characters


From http://www.closingbigger.net 5007 days ago
This is a collection of Tweets (posts I put out on twitter via @shanegibson) from the past couple of weeks . They are social media tips under 140 characters in length. (last weeks social media tips can be found here)
Some of these tips have been passed on dozens of times but I wanted to make sure they stayed permanently available by posting the
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