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Social Media

6 Words That Make People Share Content

by Eric Miltsch on 06/29/2010 · View Comments

Image via Wikipedia Dan Zarella dug up some great insight regarding the best words to use, and the best to avoid, to get more people to share you content. If anyone knows, its Dan. (Self proclaimed Social Media Scientist) Dan stated that adjectives don’t work as well as verbs & nouns; big shocker – sexual [...]

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Foursquare Webinar: The AC Webinar Series

by Eric Miltsch on 05/11/2010 · View Comments

Can Foursquare be an effective social media communications tool for retail car dealers? Foursquare is a location-based social networking site which requires the use of your mobile phone or device to check in to venues. To “check in” requires you log in to Foursquare, pull up a list of places or venues that have been [...]

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New Facebook Like Button

by Eric Miltsch on 04/25/2010 · View Comments

Facebook’s Like button is the newest content sharing feature to hit the ‘Net. And its kind of a big deal when it comes to social media optimization, easy content sharing and making extra connections. Websites can include the same “Like” button everyone in the universe is familiar with, within their own content. Why is this [...]

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Listening. Individuals and businesses alike work so hard at trying to engage, interact, promote, distribute, create link-bait, re-tweet etc. Sure, those items need to be done and should find their place within the communication mix. Yet, listening is consistently overshadowed or just missing. If your goal is effective social media, start listening more. Listen to [...]

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40 Top Twitter Applications

by Eric Miltsch on 04/11/2010 · View Comments

Here’s the best list of Twitter Applications you’ll ever need for your mobile phones and PC’s. Enjoy… Mobile Twitter Apps: ÜberTwitter (BlackBerry) Seesmic TweetDeck (iPhone) Field Assets (iPhone) Pichirp (iPhone) PictTweet (iPhone) PictTweet Plus (iPhone) PockeTwit (SmartPhone) Spaz (Palm Pre) See My Music (iPhone) Tweed (Palm Pre) Tweet Media (iPhone) TweetPocket TwitFiend (Android) Twittelator Pro [...]

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Still looking for social media optimization proof that your business, organization or brand should have a Foursquare venue page? Then check out what @JazzyChad recently whipped up: 4SquareVision A nice mash-up of Foursquare check-ins and Twitter status updates. When was the last time you did something unique that made people want to visit your business? [...]

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Rally Up – Really Like It

by Eric Miltsch on 04/01/2010 · View Comments

Social media noise getting to you too? Look no further. The innovative minds over at 12Seconds launched a new location based social network called Rally. And its got some pretty nice features. real friends get push notifications and end up in your feed feed friends just end up in your feed (no push notifications – [...]

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Miso: Tune In and Check In

by Eric Miltsch on 03/24/2010 · View Comments

Miso lets you add another dimension to your status updates and your location based check-ins: activity based updates – targeting what you’re watching either on TV or at the movies. Integrate your activities with Facebook, Foursquare and/or Twitter account updates and share the TV show or movie you’re watching. Many people update their Facebook status [...]

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A Different Way To Use Foursquare

by Eric Miltsch on 03/22/2010 · View Comments

Need an easy way to keep track of your employees ? Looking for a cost-effective way to keep track of your staff who’s activities take them out of the office? Get your employees to play Foursquare, create your parameters and have them “Check-In” while they’re out doing their thing. It’s free & it’s fun. Plus [...]

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Is There A New Google Penalty?

by Eric Miltsch on 03/17/2010 · View Comments

Are you using an SEO Plugin on your website and/or Blog? If you are, I recommend deleting the plugin and adding the necessary search engine optimization properties directly to your HTML files. If you’re using a blogging theme such as Thesis, you don’t need to add additional SEO plugins; everything you need to affect these [...]

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