(Image credit:allspice1) IBM was well known for having golf course privileges for its employees. Quite a perk, right? Well it paid off for IBM, as it kept employees going on talking shop on the golf course. Enter social media. Corporations and draconian IT departments out there often block many or all social media sites from […]
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People like to talk about social media sites in terms the amount of traffic sent by getting on the front page, backlinks, profile backlinks, and passing pagerank. Image credit: sara.musico Today, we’re going to have a little fun with it. We’re going to take the web 1.0 metric of time on site and go a
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(image credit: iPhotograph) When it comes to hearing about success in social media, we’ve all heard the mantra everyone uses: “content is king.” And yes, there is truth in that statement. How can anything be expected to virally spread like wildfire with crappy content? Imagine, if you will…the content court jester. How many times have
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Image credit – understanding tjsize This is a guest post by one of our Social Media Ninja winners Social media is getting too popular – more and more effort is needed to get noticed there and make friends and fans. Beside being loyal, consistent, truthful, etc, etc, there is one proven technique to gain power
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We are here today with a distinguished guest that sits outside the realm of social media, but is rather a Political Science professor. (In fact, he was a professor of mine once upon a time). Before all of you think that I have lost my mind, let me explain further. Professor Patrick Regan is an
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Why haven’t you frontpaged yet? I want to go for a swim already. The short answer: no. The longer answer: So I’ve been out for most of the week on vacation. Which got me to thinking – can you really take a vacation from social media? I mean, how can you expose yourself to risking
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(yes, that’s supposed to be a Twitter army 🙂 ) Why Twitter is Important (click image for full size) To many Internet Marketers,Twitter has become important. Some people may not yet understand, but this may just be part of their journey through the social media learning curve. As with any social media application, site influencers
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We had a chance to catch up with Icanhascheezburger co-founder, Ben Huh. Here’s what he had to say: 1 – Tell us a little about your background. What drove you to create a site like this, and what do you see for the future? Did you ever think that ICHC would get as big as
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These days you can see the effects of social media everywhere – even in places you would least expect it. Take for instance, the case of White Castle. For anyone that lives outside the USA, White Castle is a fast food hamburger chain – you get the idea. So for Valentine’s Day White Castle is
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Just released yesterday, Mixx has stepped up its growing social news site, now adding the ability to message other users within the site. Chris McGill spoke about these features being on the Mixx roadmap in our earlier interview with him. From the Mixx blog: Mixx Mail Phase 1: Now you can send and receive messages
