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By definition, social media is meant to be just that, social. The argument to automate your Twitter feed or not can be hashed and rehashed over and over, but some facts remain the same; there are people behind the mechanisms. And as human beings, whether we like it or not, we’re not meant to work 24/7, and occasionally need to sleep.
Let’s take a look at 4 minimal Twitter automation tools that can help you stay engaged, even while catching a few winks. - FutureTweets - Twuffer - Timely - Buffer
Social channels are a great way to improve the planning, promotion and execution of live in-person events. Take note of these top tips.
As the number of information sources grows and become decentralized, here are four ways it helps news organizations and their communities:
1. Better information for the community and someone looking out for their interests to highlight the best.
2. Better journalism because the links to other sources can be put in context and explanations added.
3. More potential traffic and time on site for the news organization, which delivers more value to advertisers or sponsors. (More time on site would derive from having more links to engage readers, not from any assumption that the main site would publish more than teasers.
4. More exposure for smaller sites and other sources of information, who can potentially be part of a network that delivers more value to advertisers and users alike.
How to successfully sell with social media by getting to know the right people and starting up a conversation that might go somewhere.
The fine art of selecting, spreading and creating relevant content for your network. Incorporate "read, tag & spread" in your daily routine...
33 Social Media Management Tools Social media management tools can help businesses listen to, manage, measure and respond to conversations about their brand on the social web. With more and more social media management tools springing up on the market, it’s hard to keep track of what’s out there. So we’ve come up with a list…
Social media has forced presentations to become an interactive conversation.
Presenters who embrace audience participation are connecting their audiences to their ideas in a more meaningful way. Using social media as a connection tool goes beyond just looking at the twitter feed to assess if you were boring or not.
There are six ways to utilize social media while planning your presentation that will ensure an authentic connection and relevant conversation occur.
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Through curation you can save it from the obscurity of the timeline. You can save it for posterity and for others, or simply for your own uses and pleasures.
As content mills such as Demand Media, (and as others follow suit) continue to churn out a Tsunami of mediocre content -- the deluge is swamping all content. The black waters of the media Tsunami will carry away the good and the bad. And search cannot help.
Curation becomes the only way to rescue great content and keep it safe.
The Internet is big and increases exponentially every day. The amount of information that is potentially (very) interesting to you does so as well. How do you keep up? This article gives you the five basic laws of survival in the modern day information age.
We’re opening up Mashable Follow to all our users.
Ten weeks ago we announced the private beta test of Mashable Follow, a new social layer at Mashable that lets you follow the topics that interest you, create a profile on the site, share stories to your multiple social networks in a single click, connect with friends and much more.
We’re pleased to say the private beta has been extremely successful, and now we’re opening up Mashable Follow to all our users. We appreciated all of the feedback that we received from our beta users and going forward we’re still seeking your feedback on how we can improve. Please let us know if you have ideas.
The immense availability of hundreds of social media monitoring tools is both exciting and confusing: Social media professionals now have tools available to them manage and measure their social efforts, but shopping for the right software in such a cluttered space is often frustrating and confusing.
Community managers, social media managers, consultants and agency professionals alike have many of the same concerns. What are the questions I should ask before purchasing a social media monitoring service? What are the best social media monitoring tools out there? Are there budget-friendly social media monitoring options?
Oneforty recently surveyed 150 social media professionals to learn about what their main concerns were when it came to social media monitoring. What follows is an infographic produced in partnership with Kissmetrics to show you their main questions, as well as favorite social media monitoring tools. The list of tools at the bottom shows the most popular tools according to survey respondents who answered a question regarding which tools they use, and is admittedly not conclusive.
Brands are quickly adapting to consumers' evolving communication habits by integrating social media and mobile marketing strategies into their email marketing.
Event industry suppliers—general service contractors, sales and marketing firms, and exhibit designers—are stepping out of their comfort zones to take advantage of the innovation that is sweeping over the industry. What might look like a desperate move by some companies to hitch their wagons to a star or an attempt to make up for the shortcomings of a flat industry is actually a smart business decision. A clear precedent for the trend comes from social media and the growing practice of content curation.
This hot trend can help you find, organize and share the most relevant information on the Web.
The 5 models of content curation: 1. Aggregation 2. Distillation 3. Elevation 4. Mashup 5. Chronology
I’m a fan of passion. I’m a fan of people who humanize business, and Gary is that 100%. No matter what, Gary is human, and so, I’m a fan. Thank you, Gary.
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