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Lately I’ve been pondering the part that social media plays in my blogging business.
This post is an attempt to make some sense of it. I’d value your thoughts in comments to help me take these half thought through ideas to something more concrete.
Those who have been following me for a while know that I not only spend a lot of time on my blogs b
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List of annoying things people do on Twitter and some of the ways you can avoid these same Twitter mistakes .
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A great story about how a TypePad representative used Twitter to provide stellar customer service.
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Big things often come in small packages. Consider microblogging, the emerging short-message medium offered by such sites as Twitter, Pownce, Plurk and FriendFeed.
Some commentators have dismissed the Twitters of the world as places where the self-absorbed waste time writing about the mundane, but many reputable companies don't see it that way
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How to use twitter, facebook, and other social media to market yourself, your products, and your company or brand.
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Forget the elevator pitch. Forget the press release. Forget the PowerPoint deck. If you were making a "Twitpitch" about your business, it would be over by now.
A what? A Twitpitch forces you to tell your company's story in 140 characters (about 20 words), the maximum length of a message on Twitter, a microblogging platform that is gaining p
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Too many companies I've worked with are unable to articulate just exactly who it it they are and what they do. But now Internet technology is forcing companies to form a new kind of shorthand for their company strategy.
The newest version of the "elevator pitch" is a "Twitpitch," so named in an article in Business Week Small Biz because i
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Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that costs nothing for users to access and little effort to keep in touch with busy friends. It can also help you build your brand or brand you as an expert.
Here’s a guide to help you get started “tweeting.” Includes 10 strategies to market your company and 5 to market yourself, plus lo
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Twitter has been a hot item in the uber-social media , micro-blogging crowd for the past few years. I have to admit that when I first heard about it I dismissed it with a cyber-sneer...but today I have Twitter open in a browser sidebar most days.
This article is an excellent description of the attraction of the Twitter experience.
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What's more stereotypically trivial than shoe shopping? Using Twitter, of course! Online shoe retailer Zappos does shoes and social media remarkably well. Scores of bloggers, lots of video blogging and 198 employees on Twitter help keep the company's profile high and humanize the folks behind the shoe sales.
Of all the different types of soci
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Ah, Twitter, the first and foremost way to quickly find out what your friends, colleagues, and mentors are up to right now. It’s quickly becoming a questionable tool in the online world. Some say it’s pointless, some are still trying to
find the point in it, and some are using it to build their networks, blog readerships, and esssentially, their
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