Helpful, detailed piece about how blogging works for pro bloggers. Offers guidance on how to position yourself, build credibility, and earn money. These are not stated quite as clearly as I'm summarizing here, but woven into this excellent article are details about how you should be transparent in your blogging or damage your credibility.
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Blogger Ethics: Approval by a Blogger May Please a Sponsor
Posted by q4sales under Social MediaFrom http://www.nytimes.com 5622 days ago
New Book Offers Practical Tips for Growing Online Communities
Posted by AngelaConnor under Social MediaFrom http://www.free-press-release.com 5624 days ago
A practical guide for building relationships and connecting with customers online.
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5 Steps for Successful Social Media Damage Control
Posted by sannwood under Social MediaFrom http://mashable.com 5624 days ago
Our goal, of course, hasn't changed — work to increase the number of positive comments written about your company, product, or service and take care of those who have negative experiences. But, how do you make that happen in the social media world? What steps to you take to keep negative social media damage to a minimum?
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Beware of Get-Rich Scams on Twitter | Richmond Blogs
Posted by Peri under Social MediaFrom http://www.richmond-blogs.com 5626 days ago
Getting rich the quick and easy way is not a new lure of course. Twitter is just the newest way to spread the word.
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Hootsuite 2.0 Twitter App Interview with Ryan Holmes
Posted by shanegibson under Social MediaFrom http://www.closingbigger.net 5627 days ago
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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Podcast on Integrating Social Media Into Your Sales and Marketing Process
Posted by shanegibson under Social MediaFrom http://www.closingbigger.net 5628 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
Posted by maplesummit under Social MediaFrom http://www.fastcompany.com 5629 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
Posted by SalesBlogcast under Social MediaFrom http://salesblogcast.com 5629 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
Posted by shanegibson under Social MediaFrom http://www.closingbigger.net 5630 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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