Archive for Social Tools

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Blogging plugin mania got you down?

You want an interactive website, but readers see more plugins than the hard work you put in on amazing content. Or, all you have is fabulicious (has that word been coined already?) content on your site and you don’t wanna mess with a bunch of Facebook and Twitter plugins or configure tag clouds. I’ve got [...]

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Getting Smarter With Social Media

It might be a stretch to say that social media can make you smarter. However, you can be a smarter social media marketer. One of the basic tenements of marketing is that you cannot manage what you cannot measure. This applies to social media marketing. Traditional marketers complain that social media cannot be measured and [...]

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Social Media is your eyes and ears. Are you listening and teaching?

I had an interesting conversation the other day with a friend who comes from the school of traditional marketing and advertising. In that conversation, we became aware of an interesting comparison between traditional marketing methods and social media. It was almost like an epiphany. Big organizations spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to conduct market [...]

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Standing Out With Branding and Creating Brand Equity

In earlier blogs I asked and discussed whether your website reflects your brand and if your social media marketing has stage presence. If asked, most people equate the subject of branding with a logo. While that is somewhat true, branding has everything to do with what makes you distinct from everyone else. When you have [...]

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Convert a Hashtag Search to a Twitter List

How to create a twitter list from a hashtag search

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Coffee & Browser Tabs

After a crazy summer of traveling the East Coast, things are finally settling down… and thus, the weekly browser tab closure tradition returns. Please forgive me for the LENGTHY post. Here are 2 weeks of resources (and a few personal plugs!) for you. Enjoy! Mind if I start with the personal mentions? (Don’t mind if [...]

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Closing out the browser TABS!

So by Saturday, I have 1,000 tabs with great resources open, some of which I have shared, some of which I haven’t even read yet.  I love Saturday mornings, because I can chill, drink my coffee and catch up on good stuff I’ve missed during the week (* think Dad at the kitchen table with [...]

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