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Top Social Media Marketing Tactics in an Economic Downturn
Wired recently interviewed Chris Alden, the CEO of Six Apart who believes that blogging will surge during this economic downturn. But on the flip side, a bad economy will probably lead to an overall uptick in blogging, Alden says. “When … Continue reading
Posted in B2B, blogs, facebook, social media, strategy, twitter
Tagged blogging, blogs, budgets, Chris Alden, community, economy, facebook, Google Video, guy kawasaki, internet marketing, linkedin, marketing, microblogging, MySpace, public relations, social media, social networks, twitter, video, youtube
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Wrangling Time for Social Media
In the last two weeks I’ve been volunteering my time to an independent political action committee (PAC), a group of women filmmakers who have created a series of videos to sway voters. Originally they had planned on creating the spots … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, social media, strategy
Tagged blogs, facebook, marketing, microblogging, PR, public relations, social media, time, twitter, video, web 2.0
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PR Agency Pros — How Social Media Savvy Are They?
A few months back, at my previous company, I led one of those wonderfully fun agency reviews. One of the key requirements for our company was that the agency had to have social media experience. I was surprised at how … Continue reading
Posted in best practices, public relations, social media, Web sites
Tagged blog, bloggers, communications, conversation, Digg, facebook, marketing, media, microblogging, MySpace, PR, public relations, Reddit, relationships, social media, strategy, twitter
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Considerations for Corporations Using Twitter for Business
There are a lot of excellent posts out there about how to best use Twitter, so rather than rehash those, I’ll recap them below. However, from my own experience, there are a couple of things that corporations using Twitter may … Continue reading
Posted in B2B, best practices, twitter
Tagged B2B, CA Inc, computer associates, JetBlue Airways, microblogging, twitter, Website
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Gmail Down, the World in a Panic
One moment I was in and navigated away briefly. I came back, opening a new tab and get the “Temporary Error (502)” for my Gmail. I’ve been a Gmail user since the very early days and have had barely any … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, brand, email, social media, twitter
Tagged 502 error, blog, brand, email, gmail, gmail down, google, internet, meme, microblog, microblogging, news, summize, twitter, webmail, word of mouth
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