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Dan Schawbel is the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 09), and owner of the award winning Personal Branding Blog.Looking for a job? Consider creating your own. There are a number of social resources to help you connect with other entrepreneurs and get your business ideas off t (Read More)
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Small Business Trends
For a moment there I thought it was something I’d said — except I hadn’t said anything yet! When I was kicked out of the “What the Stimulus Package Means to Small Business” Townhall meeting this afternoon, it felt like the Web equivalent of being voted off the island. One minute I was adjust (Read More)
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Silicon Alley Insider
The following is reprinted with permission from Jason's List, an email newsletter published by Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis. You can sign up to receive Jason's newsletter here. Rock out To This While Reading: Don't Stop BelievingForward To: Startups that are hitting the wallA lot of CEOs with less than 12 months of capital le (Read More)
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Using social media to market your business is a good idea. Just don't plan on getting your whiz-kid nephew to do it for free. (Read More)
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Ever had one of those moments when you really wished you knew how to do something specific? If only there were someone you could ask… Thanks to the social web, particularly niche blogs and expert-driven communities, it’s easy to find knowledge, insights and guidance direct from the pros, no matter what the topic area. In f (Read More)
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Silicon Alley Insider
From Reflections Of a Newsosaur: Free is a business model. I know this, because Jeff Jarvis says so. Actually, I think Chris Anderson, the author of “The Long Tail” may have said it first. Be that as it may, here’s the question:Given Jeff’s deeply held belief that content should be free, why is he c (Read More)
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Lon S. Cohen is a writer and social media strategist. He is @obilon on Twitter.Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free. It’s equivalent to getting higher education. I’m talking about Masters level stuff. And it’s all available right there on Twi (Read More)
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: I'm delighted to have found this article. I'm always looking for lists of intelligent people on Twitter with a lot of good content to share. This list of 12 looks to be a treasure trove. I appreciate Lon Cohen for putting it together.
David Risley
Personal branding is very important for bloggers and you’re going to see a lot of talk about it this year. I have talked about the importance of branding before. However, how do you monitor it? Here are a few online tools to help you do it. The idea here is to constantly have your little tentacles out so that you know whene (Read More)
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: Monitoring your brand, company and product/service images is essential to going forward if you do business online. How else will you know what needs improvement and what's working? Good tools for this.
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1. I am no longer looking to subscribe to individual blogs via RSS.
If I admire a blogger, such as Mike Fruchter, I look whether he has a Google Shared Items page to which he bookmarks his top blog po... (Read More)
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Diane Tucker of the Huffington Post picked up an old article of mine where I had basically said there was close to nothing papers could do to get me to read them (at least physical copies) because of how easy it is to either find, or be pointed to, news online.One very valid rebuttal from the comments (and indeed, one that (Read More)
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About time to. Of course this is all because Dan Lyons pontificated in Newsweek – which he also pointed to from his blog – that that there is no money to be made with blogging. Of course his idea of making money is something that probably has to surpass his salary from Newsweek who I am sure gave him the big high five ov (Read More)
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Samir Balwani is a social media marketer who helps businesses create effective web strategies. You can follow him on Twitter and get his newsletter.As we battle a global recession, corporations are looking for new ways to sell their products and engage their consumers. Many have turned to the Internet, with Social Media in (Read More)
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: As a service management / helpdesk ISV, it's nigh impossible to sort the chafe from the wheat if one considers that the amount of data surrounding "customer service" in social media is already out of this world. This article is interesting, but it picks the low hanging fruit, the guys with the big bucks.
TwitLinks
Twitter is changing the way information spreads online. Links that would have been blogged a couple of years ago are now more often shared via the micro-blogging service instead, which fundamentally changes strategy when trying to get content to spread. (Read More)
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: I know I written entire (macro) blogs around a particular link...but if I really want to get poeple there, I tweet it with a little copy: "You Gotta See This" or something.
Micro blogging is the apple in the eye of an ADD web 2.0 surfer.