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February 23rd, 2011 by Tisha Tolar
Everyone knows YouTube is the place to get discovered and the site is using its star power to move forward with its Annual DoGooder Non-Profit Video Awards. This is their 5
th year with the awards program and they have set up a new award to encourage online participation.
There will be $10,000 grants give to the winners in the…
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February 22nd, 2011 by Tisha Tolar
More changes at Facebook have hit and users now have more options for sharing their relationship status with their friends. New categories to choose from have been added to the marital/relationship status.
Users can now select from the following choices:
In a Domestic Partnership
In a Civil Union
Single
In a Relationship
Engaged
Married
It’s Complicated
In an Open Relationship…
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February 22nd, 2011 by Tisha Tolar
Lil Wayne, rapper extraordinaire, had busted up the Guinness World Record for getting 588,243 likes in a brief 24 hour period. The record was previously held, if only for mere hours, by Oreo, the cookie.
Oreo had gone out to set the World Record by posting their intentions on their Facebook page. The brand encouraged fans to ‘like’ the page…
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February 21st, 2011 by SEM Contributor
While everyone else is rushing to jump on the social media bandwagon, taking advantage of the client-provider interaction and PR opportunities that SM has to offer banks are either slow to look into the opportunities or have no intention of grasping this valuable piece of PR at all. But heck knows they could use it.
Notwithstanding the fact that there…
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February 21st, 2011 by Ann Smarty
Social media is a great viral marketing tool. What can spread a word more effective than a few hundreds of timely tweets? However, unfortunately, few marketers really “get it” how to execute social media marketing to aid their word of mouth campaigns.
A new really huge and in-depth article on linkbait has some great information on how to use social…
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February 21st, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Have You Noticed Changes to Facebook’s News Feed Recently?
Have you noticed lately in Facebook that you are only receiving comments or updates from the same people?
In the News Feed, you now only see posts from people that you interact with on a regular basis.
If you haven’t made a comment, looked at a person’s profile often or clicked…
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February 20th, 2011 by Lorna Li
Our perception of marketing has changed vastly over the last decade. Not only is a billboard “not enough,” but companies are expected to have a presence in a long list of additional sites.
This began when the Web took real form in the early 2000s, exploded when social media became prominent, and is growing still thanks to geo-location and other …
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February 17th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
When I first heard the news that online radio station Last.FM would begin to charge its members (from February 15
th) to use its services on mobile devices, I was pretty annoyed. I felt like users were being charged for exactly the same service they were already receiving and this was enough for me to declare within another blog…
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February 17th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
The US was quite badly hit by the recent economic crisis. Countless businesses had to shut down and millions of people lost their jobs during the past three years. Take the opportunity and use social media to connect with potential employers.
Although the Internet has been around for a long while now, but nothing has ever been able to attract…
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February 17th, 2011 by Ann Smarty
Not everyone should start a blog. If you don’t have anything new, insightful, or witty to say, you should probably just keep your thoughts to yourself and not share them for the whole world. We’ve all come across these blogs before- the ones whose writers are badly misinformed or deeply in self-denial about their level of education or sense of…
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