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A Social Media postcard from Vietnam

As some of you know, I’ve been in Vietnam for the last 2 weeks working with the Lift9 research team. Vietnam is a fantastic place and our wonderful team has really made me feel welcome.

During my visit, I’ve been able to keep in touch with fri

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Added by Warren Sukernek on November 13, 2009 at 3:22am — No Comments

Can I catch Happiness from My Twitter Community?

A year ago, Clive Thompson wrote

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Added by Warren Sukernek on September 13, 2009 at 10:14pm — 3 Comments

Tweet Your Way to a New Job

Last night I presented Tweet Your Way to a New Job to the Greater Seattle Jewish Business Network (GSJBN). I talked about my experience using Twitter to help in my job search. We had some great discussions around job searches and how to use social media to further your efforts. I think several people found it helpful. The presentation is posted here.

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Added by Warren Sukernek on September 10, 2009 at 12:02pm — 2 Comments

One Player Shows the NFL How to Tweet

Last week the National Football League (NFL) announced that it was banning Twitter, before, during, and after games. The NFL said that it will let players, coaches, and other team personnel engage in social networking during the season. However, they will be prohibited from using Twitter and from updating profiles on Facebook and other social-networking sites during games. The Twitter ban goes int… Continue

Added by Warren Sukernek on September 7, 2009 at 11:31pm — No Comments

Get an E-ticket to Social Media's Disneyland

Staples is bringing back The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, perhaps the most well-known and loved back-to-school television commercial ever created. I can’t believe that the commercial series first ran 15 years ago! As a parent, it is kind of exciting to send the kids back to school. But that’s not what is making the summer doldrums fun in the social media world. Today was

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Added by Warren Sukernek on August 18, 2009 at 10:19am — No Comments

How to Make More Money from a content rich niche marketing website. Healthy Diet Plan

Why Niche Marketing is the Way to Go in Succeeding Online

Niche Marketing is the last great frontier for the small business entrepreneur. Out there in the 'real' world, small businesses don't have a half fair chance of competing against the giant i

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Added by Karoly Domonyi on August 18, 2009 at 7:28am — No Comments

Social Media Works… Is It Working For You?

As internet marketers may of us struggle to get a handle on how to effectively market in a social media web 2.0 world. Social media is about building relationships. It is very difficult to sell someone when you haven’t built trust through a relationship. We all get hit up by over aggressive marketers on social sites. You know, those who welcome you to a site and then start selling you something. We also get friends requests from people who have never contacted us before. With this in mind I did… Continue

Added by Boris A Local SEO on June 16, 2009 at 11:20pm — No Comments

Does Social medial work on B2B business

Currently I am working on my dissertation about Social medial marketing. Digital technology is rapidly developing recently, and especial web 2.0 (social medial, blog) draw more attention. Many of literature and public are talking about social medial marketing, but how it does work in marketing mix and strategy? As a communication tools, social medial, like Facebook, twitter, myspace and web blog are likely to be an effective way to delivery brand image or improve customer relationship. On the… Continue

Added by Denise on June 11, 2009 at 5:54pm — 2 Comments

97% of Twitter members think brands should engage with customers on Twitter!

There have been a lot of studies of Twitter users lately. Have you seen this study by PMN that says only 22% of Gen Y consumers are using Twitter. Or this Harvard Business Review study of 300,000 users reveals that the 10% of Twitte

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Added by Warren Sukernek on June 4, 2009 at 10:49pm — No Comments

Getting The Cart Before the Ox – Or How To Do Social Media Wrong!

I have recently launched a social networking site in Tucson that is geared towards both profit and non profit businesses. I have also joined a slew of social media sites this year as part of The 109 Day Link Building Explosion Program. The program is based on what I call “scratch my back marketing. The whole idea is to make networking and branding the cornerstones of any social media effort. If you are l… Continue

Added by Boris A Local SEO on May 30, 2009 at 8:14pm — No Comments

The Demise Of The Do Follow Lists

Just about anyway that you would search for Do Follow blogs and lists you'll find my website. It is usually in the top 3 and it has been there a long time. But Comment spam destroyed these lists. I would like to invite you to read The Demise of the Do Follow Lists. It is a good example of how selfless actions of a few can hurt many! Thanks, Urban Tucson SEO Solutions 520-777-6479 http://tucsonseosolutions.com Tuc… Continue

Added by Boris A Local SEO on May 27, 2009 at 1:15am — No Comments

Twitter Presentations

Last week at the WOMMA University conference, I was one of the leaders of the workshops focused on optimizing your Twitter performance. As a takeaway for the attendees, I sent links to a few Twitter presentations that I had created.

A few months ago, I presented Become a Twitter Ninja at a webinar sponsored by The Society

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Added by Warren Sukernek on May 21, 2009 at 12:53am — 1 Comment

WOMMA rocks South Beach: Inside the numbers

I returned from a great WOMM U. social media and word of mouth marketing training event put on by WOMMA in South Beach. It was a great event and I got to lead a few workshops on Twitter. You can find those presentations,

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Added by Warren Sukernek on May 17, 2009 at 8:28pm — No Comments

140: The Twitter Conference - Who's in?

Every day we hear about Twitter’s popularity - Record number of users, new celebrity members, Ashton Kutcher and his 1,000,000 followers. Another indicator of Twitter’s growth and popularity is the number of conferences popping up. Jeff Pulver is putting on his 140 characters confer

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Added by Warren Sukernek on May 4, 2009 at 10:18pm — No Comments

Who's Who of who has publicly endorsed the UFirst Money Merge Account software, coaching & education system

It always amuses me when I speak with so called "professional people" who say that the Money Merge Account by UFirst is a scam or is just paying some extra money to their mortgage so they can do it on their own. If it was either of those things the people who along with me have staked their reputation on it's validity and it's enormous power to help American's and Canadian get out of debt would not have given it's founders awards, or become agents of the system or put their name on it. See for y… Continue

Added by Jennifer Bhala Hansen on April 8, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Twitter helps Alaska Airlines to go North of Expected

Living in Seattle, Alaska Airlines is the home town airline. So recently I took special interest in the company’s presence on Twitter. I reached out to Elliott Pesut who maintains the AlaskaAir twitter account to get his perspective on Twitter and how the company

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Added by Warren Sukernek on April 6, 2009 at 5:13pm — 1 Comment

Who's Your BFF?

I learned about an amazing Twitter visualization tool on Read Write Web called Mailana developed by Pete Warden. There are many tools that will provide a visualization of your Twitter gra

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Added by Warren Sukernek on March 21, 2009 at 1:42am — No Comments

Social Media and the NBA

MILWAUKEE - FEBRUARY 10: Charlie Villanueva #...

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

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Added by Warren Sukernek on March 19, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Furl Becomes Part of Diigo

Furl, a web page archiving and bookmarking web service was bought by Diigo, a social bookmarking and annotation service. Diigo has made the acquisition of Furl from LookSmart, who released them earlier this week. The acquisition makes many frequenters of both sites happy now that they won't have to choose between the two. I am sure that the furl users wil

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Added by Travis Harshaw on March 17, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

There Are Too Many Wanna Be Social Media Strategies...

The Consultingguy & Social Media Marketing
By: The Consultingguy

Social media and web community based marketers often present ill advised and time consuming methods of action to newcomers of focused driven marketing. Marketing strategists often like to get newcomers thinking that bigger is better, or the more members belonging to your pa… Continue

Added by The Consultingguy of MHM Management on March 17, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments