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16 JUL 09
10 Ways Journalism Schools Are Teaching Social Media SAVE
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With news organizations beginning to create special positions to manage the use of social media tools, such as the recently appointed social editor at The New York Times, journalism schools are starting to recognize the need to integrate social media into their curricula.TAGS
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19 JUN 09
Smart entrepreneurs Twitter for profit - Jun. 15, 2009 SAVE
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Thanks to Twitter, Drey snagged 21 new sales leads, and Twitter also helped him seal one $6,000-a-year contract. Fliqz signs or renews up to 30 deals a month, so the company is hardly tweeting its way to massive growth. But it's not too shabby a return for a free tool. Drey estimates that he spends eight hours a week on Twitter, or the equivalent of 2% of his marketing budget every year.TAGS
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The Community Roundtable — A peer network for community managers and social media practitioners. SAVE
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This model does two things. First, it defines the eight competencies we think are required for successful community management. Second, it attempts - at a high level - to articulate how these competencies progress from organizations without community management that are still highly hierarchical to those that have embraced a networked business ecosystem approach to their entire organization.TAGS
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17 JUN 09
Henry Blodget: The TV Business Is Toast SAVE
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Specifically, the TV industry's attitude is the same as the newspaper industry's attitude was circa 2002-2003: Stop calling us dinosaurs: We get digital; We're growing our digital businesses; We're investing in digital platforms; People still recall ads even when they fast-forward through them on DVRs; There's no substitute for TV ads. Traditional TV isn't going away: Just look at our revenue and profits!TAGS
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25 MAY 09
Twitter Trips on Its Rapid Growth - WSJ.com SAVE
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Even as Twitter's users have jumped to an estimated 32.1 million from 1.6 million a year ago, the San Francisco company has just 45 employees, up from around 21 in January, and it has brought on only a handful of people with sales or business experience.TAGS
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03 MAY 09
WordPress SEO - Yoast - Tweaking Websites SAVE
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I started writing my beginner's guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It's time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.TAGS
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12 APR 09
Largest ever organizational network analysis shows how social networks drive performance - Trends in the Living Networks SAVE
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As companies are increasingly connected in how they work, these drivers will play an increasingly large role in organizational performance.TAGS
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11 APR 09
Barnraiser SAVE
Import blog entries from the whole blogsphere into your blog stream with Roundhouse; our social blogging tool.TAGS
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Barnraiser: RSS/ATOM feed aggregation into a single webpage SAVE
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I wanted to find a simple RSS feed aggregation tool that allows people to add RSS and ATOM feeds to a social tool that would aggregate them into a simple web pageTAGS
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How to Sell Your Soul on Twitter and Who's Buying - ReadWriteWeb SAVE
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So there's the Twitter-sphere for you! Bring on "real time search," bring on a globally connected community, bring on vapid, vile, stupid shilling. It all seems pretty sad to me. And to the advertisers out there - is this cynical scheme the best you can do to engage with all the new ways people are communicating online? That's pretty bad.TAGS