I’m so excited about Podcamp tomorrow! With sessions like:

Building Trust – Why it is Time to have a Strategy
Wordpress SEO Strategies
Herding Cats: Web Content Strategy
How to use WordPress for Dang Near Anything
Make Skype Your Podcasting Bitch
Sex, Lies & Social Media
Social NETiquette

How can you resist?!?!? Oh yeah, and it’s FREE!
http://www.podcampnashville.org/pcn10/

Inexpensive and efficient, social media can give customers more extensive explanations of their offerings than traditional marketing and advertising can.
In a new Babson Executive Education survey of over 900 global executives, managers, and individual contributors, researchers identified Social Media Customer (SMC) Leaders as the companies where employees “strongly agree” with the survey statement: “our organization [...]

What separates the successful firm from the firm that is just doing it to do it?  Successful firms:
1. Think strategically about their goals first and then decide which social media tools best suit their needs.
2. Use listening tools like Google Alerts and Twitter Search to collect data and find out where the people (potential clients) [...]

“There aren’t enough hours in the day for all the chores that social media puts in front of us,” says Chris Brogan in Prioritize Your Social Media Efforts. So how do you prioritize your time? This great Ebook from Amber Naslund can help steer you in the right direction.
Ebook: Social Media Time Management
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I’m psyched about BarCamp tomorrow and this is why…

Three words you no doubt remember from childhood. Mother was right, even now, in this crazy world of new (social) media.
Have you been thinking about launching a social media marketing campaign? Are your competitors already using these new media channels? Before you do anything, I want you to STOP. This brave new world is an exciting [...]

Before I dive into my actual blog, I want to share some exciting news with you. Starting tomorrow, I will begin working for The Growth Partnership as their Marketing Manager. I will be launching a social media campaign/strategy for the firm and will blog about it, so 1) I hope you’ll follow that blog too, [...]

This is it! It’s time to dive in. Michael Phelps has nothing on you…after this, you’ll be a Twitter gold medalist!
Twitter for Business (Advanced Users)
The first thing I’d recommend doing is personalizing your Twitter background (see snapshot of mine above). If you’ve got a graphic designer on staff, the dimensions of the graphic are 1920 [...]

Okay, you’ve taken the leap into social media and created your Twitter account. You’ve completed your profile and are finding friends and smart people to follow. You’ve got the general idea of how Twitter works and the primary terms you need to know (hashtags, @messages, retweets and direct messages). Now that you’ve dipped your toes [...]

So you’re on that proverbial cliff and have decided to take the leap into social media and in particular, Twitter. That’s great! In my opinion, those firms who make the leap first and stake their claim will be the market leaders within social media. Don’t you want to be among the leaders?
According to the poll [...]