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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

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I wrote a post a while ago called Social Media Excellence and a Side of Fries about the importance of people to McDonald’s) As you might expect, UnMarketing is not your typical marketing and business book.

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Facebook Success Summit - 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook.

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Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they still keep chugging along, taking over the world one “like&# button at a time. If it’s not now, it will be soon (see my post tomorrow for more on that). This helps me keep this blog totally advertising-free.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

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But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How can we make a viral video that gets thousands of views?

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I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

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I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. I’ll be back in a couple weeks.

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Co-op SEO and the Future of Websites | Guest Posts | Social Media.

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Which brings up the whole “viral&# aspect of the platform. Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Transparency is a brand currency on the social web. Perhaps the better question is: How can you tell them your story?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Absolutely.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. And thanks to for tippping me off to Compendium. Wasn't aware of it before but sounds like something I need to dig into.