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It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
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Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the be (Read More)
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It’s almost time for Thanksgiving, and that means family traditions. But what if your family doesn’t really have any, or you simply want to start your own new ones? This might be the year where it’s your turn to up the heat and put together a Thanksgiving feast. With social media and the web, we’re lucky to have everything (Read More)
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Twitter announced it would be adding locations to your tweets back in August, and they’ve been making changes to their API to enable the functionality since late September. The geolocation functionality is now complete, and a number of developers of third-party apps who have been working on building location support into th (Read More)
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It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
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J.R. Johnson is founder and CEO of Lunch.com, a user generated content platform focused on finding common ground, and host of the Lunch for Good event series.There’s been a rising interest in the concept of “social media for social good.” In large part, that discussion has been focused on cause-related social good. I have (Read More)
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Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency. To win a signed and personalized copy of each of the books mentioned here, visit Read It For Me.So you want to get up to speed fast on the latest social media thinking. Maybe give your colleague, boss or friend a dose of new social strategies. But (Read More)
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Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.The expression of community has changed considerably since the emergence of social media technologies, but its basic foundation — the (Read More)
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Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, with just two days left in the nominations period we thought it would be appropriate to take a look at (Read More)
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: SprouterQuick Pitch: Sprouter facilitates collaboration between entrepr (Read More)
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Borrowing a page from the Twitter handbook, Google Wave has just introduced the concept of “following” and “unfollowing.” The feature applies to public Waves, which, as the name suggests, are Waves that anyone can see.Here’s how it works according to Google: “When you see a public wave that you would like to get updates on (Read More)
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Popular online personal finance tool Mint is not only well-known for its array of money management, personal expense tracking, and budgeting tools, but it is also a popular knowledge resource, mostly via its blog and tools such as Financial Fitness. It makes sense, right? Combine information with knowledge and you have a p (Read More)
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If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on (Read More)
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Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media companies want to grow is their local audience, because local traffic is where the money is.“Local advert (Read More)
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Palo Alto Networks, an enterprise firewall provider, has released their Application Usage and Risk Report for Fall 2009. The biyearly report, which looks at application usage on 200 different enterprise networks around the world, found a dramatic increase in social media usage inside the enterprise.Since their last report j (Read More)