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Will Social Media Transform Your Business?

3. January 2009

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Well here we are a week into the new year and wondering where '09 will take us. The holidays are over and some sink into the doldrums of sugar lows and the sudden quiet that descends after all the family and friends go home. Others see this quiet time as a time to renew and [...]

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20 Essential Twitter Apps You Didn’t Know You Needed (until now)

31. December 2008

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You know how you find that incredible Twitter app, use it a couple of times and then can't remember where it was? Me too. So I pulled this quick list together as much as a bookmark list for my own use as to share some apps you might not have seen yet. It is not at all [...]

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Make charity part of your New Year’s promises

27. December 2008

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We went for a wonderful hike at the Pinnacles yesterday, and talked about our plans for the new year. Hikes like this help clear our heads of all the chatter and craziness of our businesses and remember what is really important. We talked about how we plan to give back to the community and the [...]

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Leveraging Social Media In Your Business

13. December 2008

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This is pretty much the last week of business for many as the holiday parties and gatherings of family and friends take over your personal life and all those year end and "gotta get it done before the holiday break" tasks take over your business time too. Even so, if you're trying to build a business [...]

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Shorty Awards - Nominate your Favorite Tweeters

11. December 2008

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The Shorty Awards honor Twittererati in a variety of categories ranging from advertising, apps and branding to startups, tech and weird. The idea is to recognize your favorite tweeple in 140 characters or less (including the link to the awards page). A quick scan of the top nominees so far shows the usual suspects of [...]

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Free Twitter Background Design Sites

10. December 2008

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Looking for a spiffy upgrade for your Twitter page? There have been several sites popping up lately that can help. Here's a quick list in no particular order, and in typical Twitter style these are all free for you to use. TwitterBacks Gives you good information on building a Twitter Background and a downloadable PSD [...]

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Facebook may not be for YOUR business

9. December 2008

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Lately I've been inundated with requests from people to build them a Facebook page. One client told me of a conference in which the speaker told the entire room they had to have a Facebook page or their businesses would simply not survive. While it's true that Facebook is the largest network of it's kind in [...]

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Happy Tweetsgiving!

27. November 2008

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It's Thanksgiving in the US and everybody's getting ready to settle in for a day of football, gorge on our favorite foods and time with family and friends. If you've looked at Twitter lately you may have seen the newest of social media fund-raising efforts, TweetsGiving. The money is to be used to build a new [...]

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Social Media Plan Creation: TeleClass

24. November 2008

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People often tell me they would get into social media, but it takes too much time. I'll be the first to admit that it CAN take a lot of time, but also the first to tell you it doesn't have to. It's all about doing your homework before you dive in so you know where [...]

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Go to the conversation

21. November 2008

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Getting involved in social media can be a daunting task for some. Many companies think they need to build a forum, a blog or some form of discussion area on their site in order to be engaged. They don't want to go to the expense and hassle of adding on to their website to get [...]

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