Archive for the ‘Trust’ Category

Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog

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9 Successful Techniques for Making Money from Podcasting

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

David Spark ( @dspark ) is the founder of Spark Media Solutions , specialists in building industry voice through storytelling and social media. He blogs at Spark Minute and is a regular on Cranky Geeks and ABC Radio. For many, creating a podcast is something that’s done solely out of passion.

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5 Advanced Social Media Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media , a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @leftthebox and get his newsletter . Social media marketing and the businesses that utilize it have become more sophisticated.

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5 Ways to Make Your Business More Transparent

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Sharlyn Lauby is the president of Internal Talent Management (ITM) which specializes in employee training and human resources consulting. She authors a blog at hrbartender.com . You can hardly have a conversation about social media today without discussing the concept of transparency

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Online Retailers: 99% Plan to Have Facebook Fan Pages

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

With two-thirds of marketers using social media , and retailers shifting marketing dollars towards social initiatives, it comes as no surprise that new research from the e-tailing group and PowerReviews shows that brands are more hip to social media than ever before. What is quite remarkable, however, is the extent at which brands and retailers are adopting and implementing social media tools, and their preferred social home — Facebook. According to eMarketer, a combined 99% of surveyed online retailers currently employ (86%) or plan to employ (13%) Facebook Fan Pages

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CNN Gives Tips on Trustworthy Tweeting with Mashable’s Ben Parr [VIDEO]

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

CNN broadcast a segment this morning on building a more “trustworthy Twitter”: ways to use web tools to avoid untrustworthy links and spammy Twitter users. Mashable’s Ben Parr joined via phone and highlighted Powertwitter.me , a browser add-on that expands short URLs so you know what you’re about to click on. He also pointed to Tweetblocker , a Twitter spam-fighting site we’ve covered before on Mashable: the site lets you enter a username and see if that person is a spammer

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CNN Gives Tips on Trustworthy Tweeting with Mashable’s Ben Parr [VIDEO]

HOW TO: Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Maria Schneider left mainstream publishing behind last year to start Editor Unleashed , a site covering writing, publishing and social media. Share tips and advice for startup journalists here .

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10 Sites to Learn Something New in 10 Minutes a Day

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Allow me to lay a scene: It’s 7:00 am. The kids need to be fed and bundled off to school. The toast is burning

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WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct Messages

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter.

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WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct Messages

4 Ways Social Media is Changing Business

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Soren Gordhamer writes and consults on ways we can more creatively and effectively use the technologies of our age, including social media. He is the author of “Wisdom 2.0″ (HarperOne, 2009). You can follow him on Twitter at @SorenG

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