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May 24, 2009

Twitter in Plain English

A great introductory video for Internet users curious about the use of Twitter.

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May 16, 2009

I wanna win! Tix to Social Media Success Summit

OK, so here is my story. Overachieving SM specialist and community manager looking to meet and learn new techniques from the digital marketing superheroes of today in order to lead hundreds of small and medium sized businesses to build strong communities rallying around their brand. Recently experienced a string of family, economic and employment challenges [...]

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April 29, 2009

Bacon, Pork and Swine (Puerco??)

Swine flu is only the latest attempt to besmirch the reputation of America’s favorite white meat (after chicken of course). Even the President is getting into the game of Online Reputation Management.

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April 27, 2009

What are the Top Digital Marketing trends?

The key take-away from this article is how the company blog is truly the center point for good digital advertising media. Don’t waste your advertising dollars if you don’t want to carry out a long term dialogue with your customers.

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April 20, 2009

Ignore Twitter? Major brands learn they'd better respond — and quick – Los Angeles Times

Ignore Twitter? Major brands learn they’d better respond — and quick – Los Angeles Times. Excellent article from the often fraught with misinformation LA Times. I especially liked how they enjoyed how various companies dealt with social media nightmares. Do companies stay above the fray by not “entertaining” social media discussions or do they invite [...]

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April 20, 2009

Social Media Tips for Recruiters

I was asked on Friday by a private recruiting firm exactly how Social Media could find better qualified candidates, and obtain them quicker. Of course while time to money is important, I wanted to identify what other areas were key in recruiting the best and the brightest. Who participates? By definition, social media is meant [...]

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April 17, 2009

Ashton Kutcher hits 1,000,000 followers on Twitter

I have to eat some crow this evening. (morning) It is 2:22AM EST and Ashton Kutcher hit 1.000,000 Twitter followers before CNN. This competition was tracked live and Twitter even helped by blocking any attempts to “unfollow” either Ashton or CNN as the race to one million got closer. Seriously though, beyond the sort of [...]

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April 15, 2009

Recruiting Talent through Twitter

Hey guys, I just got off the phone with Larry Signorile from Johnson Resource Group. He had asked about how employment and recruiting firms could benefit from the use of Social Media. While the job market may be at its lowest in 25 years, there is still difficulty for recruiters to place the right candidate [...]

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April 13, 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-04-13

RT @mashable: Tip: all Mashable’s social media lists, resources & how-tos are found here: http://bit.ly/FHg04 # Keep it Social. Can social media “corral” new and existing customers? http://bashfoo.org/?p=29 # RT @carsonmckee: How to leverage sponsorships via Twitter: http://bit.ly/jL0Dr # Celebrating some breakthrough thoughts and motivations. http://bashfoo.org/?p=29 ♫ http://blip.fm/~49fke # Keep it Social. Can social media [...]

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April 7, 2009

13 Tips to Increase Your Twitt…

13 Tips to Increase Your Twitter Followers: http://tinyurl.com/dggfvr

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