25 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About LinkedIn

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Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge list of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see … [Read more]

Working Social Networking: A Phone Call might be Best Results.

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I get this conversation over email all the time: Hi. This is [Name]. Please call me – 555-555-5555 Better yet, I will send an email with my phone number in the context and it will get replied with an email from them and their personal phone number. It begins to feel like a competition – … [Read more]

U.K. Prime Minister Calling for Rioters to be Banned from Social Networks

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U.K. Prime Minster David Cameron isn’t taking lightly the fact that London rioters sent messages and organized their efforts through social networks and the Blackberry Messenger service. In fact, he has called for rioters to be banned from social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Blackberry Messenger and has reportedly set up meetings with the … [Read more]

32 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Klout

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Brilliant Bloggers is a weekly series here at BlogWorld where we look at the best posts from around the web all surrounding a specific topic. Every week, we’ll feature three of the most brilliant bloggers out there, along with a huge link of more resources where you can learn about the topic. You can see … [Read more]

Everloop Social Media Site For Tweens, But Will They Use It?

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Everloop, a new social network that aims to be a Facebook alternative for tweens, is launching today with schools, brands and investors already on board. The question is, will kids use it? They might – considering Everloop is COPPA compliant and can be used in the school systems (unlike the more well-known Facebook). But they … [Read more]

Overheard on #Blogchat: Can Readers Find You? (@thekrg)

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Do you participate in #blogchat? Every week, this weekly discussion on Twitter focuses on a specific topic and bloggers everywhere are invited to join in. Because I often have more to say than what will fit in 140 characters, every Sunday night (or Monday morning), I post about some of the most interesting #blogchat tweets. … [Read more]

Contagious Social Media Sickness

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Right now, I am extremely contagious. That’s not me trying to be witty about a blogging concept or something. I literally am contagious. This past weekend, I traveled to DC for MAGFest, a music and gaming conference (yeah, I know, I’m a geek), and I have post-con plague. Gamers aren’t exactly known for being sanitary. … [Read more]

Step Away And Step Up: Putting Social Media In Context

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Guest post contributed by Cathy Brooks It’s that time of year. A crisp chill in the air, the rich scent of fireplaces beginning to crackle and, of course, the ever-present commercialism of the holidays. The truth, though, is that this time of year brings an opportunity for something more important – the opportunity to take … [Read more]

Turning Customers Into Passionate Brand Fans

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Entertainers have always known that fans long for a personal connection with them. The more an artist can provide a behind the curtain experience the more people will become passionate fans who attend movies, watch TV shows, see concerts, download music and tell their friends. The other secret artists intuitively understand is that people like … [Read more]

Keeping Up With Community

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Social media is an ever-shifting industry. There are always new headlines in the news, tools that solve a problem we didn’t know existed, case studies developing everyday and new interest community platforms forming daily. As a community manager it is your job to keep up with not only your community, but all communities as a … [Read more]