Social media took a wild ride in 2009. The mainstream press fell in love with Twitter, Facebook grew aggressively and a new wave of companies starting taking social media seriously as a business tool. Below are 10 secrets to staying on top of it all in 2010 1. Pay Attention to the Metrics You can’t [...] Read more »
5 Social Media Secrets for 2010 – From Slideshare
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Categories: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Web - Tags: slideshare, social media secrets
With MyLikes.com, Ex-Googlers Want to Build the Next AdSense
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By Liz Gannes Jan. 5, 2010, 11:15pm Google’s AdSense is brilliant in that it very simply provides relevant contextual ads across millions of web pages. But what if you make that process a little less automated and provide ads that are endorsed by the creators of those web pages? So instead of an algorithmically matched [...] Read more »
Categories: Google, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Web, Twitter - Tags: AdSense, ex-googlers, Google, twitter, twitter monetization
Startups Cash in on Twitter With Pay-Per-Tweet
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Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, January 12, 2010 In his Twitter stream from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last weekend, actor-director LeVar Burton beamed a different kind of tweet to his 1.57 million followers: “Be the 1st to own a NEW Sony bloggie camera RT for a chance to win #SonyCES http://bit.ly/6OccaR [...] Read more »
Categories: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Web, Twitter - Tags: monetization, monetization of twitter, pay per tweet, tweet, twitter
10 Twitter Tips I Got from Guy Kawasaki at CES
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Posted: Jan 11, 2010 12:10 PM PST www.openforum.com -Jan 09, 2010 -At yesterday’s CES show, I failed once again to meet Guy Kawasaki in person. The line around him was 6 deep, and I had appointments to go to. But I did manage to catch most of his talk about how to kick butt on Twitter. [...] Read more »
Categories: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Web, Twitter - Tags: best practices, ces conference, guy kawasaki, twitter
Twitter Tips: 5 Proven Ways to Get Retweeted
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By Kristin Burnham January 11, 2010 02:51 PM ET We all like to think we’re interesting. And on Twitter, that’s often measured and validated by how frequently other people retweet your posts. Maybe you’re looking to hear feedback on your recent blog post. Or you’ve found an interesting article or a funny YouTube video that you [...] Read more »
Categories: Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Web, Twitter - Tags: retweets, Tweets, twitter
