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Mapping Influence in Social Media

Avatar Posted by billrice under Social Media
From http://kaleidico.com 5351 days ago
Made Hot by: shanegibson on February 16, 2010 11:04 pm
Social media monitoring software immediately returns efficiency to your day by consolidating your monitoring destinations. However, as is the case with any great data collection, it simply generates more questions. One of those questions most recently top of mind with our clients is: Who, in all the chatter, is influential?

Here are some of the ways we look at mapping influence. Read More
The NYTimes reports some findings from detailed research on the most shared articles from their site. It includes some really interesting findings on the type of content most likely to be shared and might be useful informing social media strategy. Read More
Twitter is growing at almost 1,900%! So use it to enhance your business perspective. The twitter rules that businesses must know. Read More
How an argument over Twitter showed me a thing or two about ethics. In particular, whether it's more important to write interesting material that attracts readers - or to give them the very best advice. Read More
I have been a Facebook enthusiast for about 2 years now and was really happy with my growing legion of friends. I was well on my way to having over 4000 friends Read More
Looking at the benefits of purely text-based chat, like IRC, as well as the effects of enforced limits by Twitter and SMS. Read More
I consider myself a hardcore hunter. I love prospecting and cold calling… but I don’t care how much of a hunter you are… every sales person has a breaking point.

If you are a small business owner and your sales reps have to make 100, 200, even 300 phone calls just to get an appointment… then of course they are going to hate the process.

The key to success comes from... Read More

4 Common Venture Capital Myths

Avatar Posted by VictoriaJones under Raising Capital
From http://www.entrepreneur.com 5352 days ago
Made Hot by: maplesummit on February 13, 2010 3:26 am
Raising venture capital financing--as a first-time founder in particular--is a difficult task, even in the strongest of financial markets. At a recent conference, a panelist opined that over 95 percent of entrepreneurs decide not to raise venture capital. Read More
Whether you are in the business of making money, running governments, or organizing communities - teamwork is essential. It is the basis of engagement, innovation and success. Business.gov's Caron Beesley provides 10 tips from the experts on how to build your business into an efficient and effective team effort. Read More


Google has a tool buried deep into the core search functionality that doesn’t get talked about much. The tool is called the Wonder wheel. Essentially, it’s just another way to view your search results but it focuses on creating a visual wheel of the search terms Google thinks are related to your primary search. You access this view by doing a search and then hitting +Show Options at the top o Read More
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