Niche Social Media

Social Media Training in Plain English

Social Media Training can be difficult. How do you tell someone about a complex idea? In the case of CommonCraft.com, they use paper and video to make complex ideas easy to understand. Over the past months CommonCraft has created some wonderful viral videos on some pretty interesting topics, and in today’s case I’m sharing the [...]

2Jul2008 |

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Bellevue MIT event - The Business of Public and Personal Data

If you missed the announcement on several other sites, the MIT Forums of the Northwest is having a great panel on Wednesday night (June 4th) - MIT Event - The Business of Public and Personal Data. Any business professional, especially communications and public relations decision makers should be looking at this information and forming some [...]

2Jun2008 |

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123 Guide to Google Gadgets

A lot of people think they have to create new information for social media. While original content is good, it isn’t always necessary - in fact most popular sites barely have a drop of fresh content on them. There are dozens of different sites that provide functional, useful (and fun) gadgets, ranging from Widgetbox to [...]

30Apr2008 |

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Ethical Media Consulting - 10 questions to ask before blowing your budget

As a marketer I am responsible for helping my clients promote themselves, as a public relations contact I am responsible for helping them strategically maneuver, as a professional I am responsible for making sure that I do not sacrifice my clients well-being for my own, and as a thoughtful human I must hold myself responsible [...]

27Apr2008 |

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Biznik Community Review

Biznik.com
CURRENT COMMUNITY SIZE: (as of 4/01/08- 9000 members)
COMMUNITY DESCRIPTION: Per Biznik- “Biznik is a business-building social network for indie professionals. That means folks who own and operate their own businesses, whether they are the head honcho of one or a team of twenty. Accountants, fashion designers, writers, sex therapists, business coaches, attorneys, marketing gurus, soap [...]

14Apr2008 |

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Self Publishing for Entrepreneurs

First off, I am a big fan of self-publishing. Everyone has something to say, and if you know how to reach out into a worldwide audience there is someone who wants to hear you say it. Blogging and online publication makes some authors happy, our staff has personally reached hundreds of thousands of readers over [...]

3Mar2008 |

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Social Media Directory

Depending on how you slice the bread, you could say there are anywhere from 10 to 100 new companies emerging in the online space every single day. This number may not seem impressive when you read it, but if you visit a site like Go2Web20.net, you can quickly get a visual idea of how much [...]

1Mar2008 |

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Wine Resources and Social Media

You just can’t get any better than this: Mashable.com has put together 30+ resources for enjoying and learning about wine.
This is a key example of how social media is exploding into niches. There are seven different social networks revolving around wine on Mashable’s list:
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26Feb2008 |

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Social Media Conquesting

When most people think of the word “conquesting” they probably think of roman soldiers claiming Europe or Celtic barbarians ravaging peasant villages. While the term may invoke memories of epic stories, it is also beginning to see a revival in the online marketplace.
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24Feb2008 |

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Linkedin Social Media Answers

I wanted to “field test” the expert knowledge of a free information site that is readily available to anyone with a computer. I simply asked the community on Linkedin “What are the best Social Media Business Development “how to” sites?” The results proved how effective reaching out to the community knowledge base can be. [...]

20Feb2008 |

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