5 Ways to Increase Engagement With Your Content

16 August 2010

Image via CrunchBase I recently wrote this guest blog post for EditMe, a wiki where regular people build websites. We’ve all been there: we’ve got a blog, a Twitter account, a Facebook page, you name it…..you’ve got traffic….. but no one’s giving you any love.  No “comments” love.  No “click” love.  No “Facebook Like” love. [...]

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5 Tips for Selling the Value of Social Media Inside Your Company

10 August 2010
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Today’s Guest Post is by Kristin Zajac, a social media marketing enthusiast and recent MBA graduate from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn. Feel like you spend as much time trying to “sell” your own organization on the value of participating in social media as you do actually harnessing [...]

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Brain Zap: Blog comments, Social media and wine, and Top 5

8 August 2010

Time for some more brain juice to get you going….. Are Blog Comments Dead? (Justin Levy, 30 July) Increasingly bloggers are concerned that even though they know that their posts are being shared through other channels, that their communities still aren’t commenting on their posts.  It’s a completely understandable feeling.  You work hard at putting [...]

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Pretty Cool: Clay Shirky to join the Meta-Activism Project Board

6 August 2010
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As many of you know, I put a good chunk of time into “labors of love,” and the Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is pretty near top of that list.  Because he’s influential in many fields, including that of social media, I thought it relevant to let you know that we’ve just got Clay Shirky on our [...]

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Thoughts on Flipboard: Content vs Social

5 August 2010
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I’ve been using Flipboard for about two weeks now.  It’s all the buzz so I thought I’d put out a few of my thoughts on it so far. Do I like it?  Sure, it’s pretty.  Do I LOVE it?  Nope.  Keep reading…. What’s Flipboard? According to them, “It’s your personalized social reader.”  Wired describes it [...]

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Brain Zap: Minutes to blog success, non-profit content, getting heard, and social media monitoring

2 August 2010

It’s Monday.  You want to get off to a motivating start.  Here are a few things that popped into my RSS to get your juices flowing and hopefully jump start some action…. How to Create a Successful Business Blog in Minutes (HubSpot)  Fact: it is obscenely easy to set up a business blog today and [...]

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