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3 essential elements of a business social media arsenal

November 8, 2009 by Kate Carruthers with 339 views

Joel Postman argues that A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter. I tend to agree, especially from a business perspective. His post got me thinking about the critical elements for a business social media toolkit. 1) A Blog or a Website (it’s the same thing really) A business or personal brand needs to have a home base – it’s... [read more]

#26: Here's a thought...

October 3, 2009 by BrianRoger with 313 views

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on MyVenturePad reveals the following nuggets:It’s group influence that mattersWe focus a lot on individual influencer; in fact, we focus on them too much. Companies are always trying to find the “influencers” in their community, the folks with the greatest reach and the strongest... [read more]

Facebook, Friendfeed and getting back to basics

August 11, 2009 by Paul Chaney with 115 views

I'm reading lots of blog posts about Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed and a number of bloggers are saying the same thing -- it's time to rethink our approach to social media. Here are three examples:"There's a lesson in Friendfeed's sale for all of us who spend time with social media, interact with customers online, or guide... [read more]

Building a Community Through Blogging

May 23, 2009 by Small Biz Bee with 140 views

I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Thursday by Shelia Buyukacar, of IMAG Connects, as part of the 2009 Action Success Summit.  My topic was on “Building a Community Through Blogging”, and we covered a lot of ground over the course of the 40 minute interview. What Did We Cover? It’s interesting that we only scratched the... [read more]

Enhance Your Wordpress Blog with 23 Plugins

March 8, 2009 by Ari Herzog with 298 views

Photo credit: ranopamasResponding to numerous questions about how such and such is enabled on my blog, I’ve whipped together a list of 23 plugins currently installed at AriWriter.Note: Most of these only work with self-hosted Wordpress.org blogs. Here’s a great explanation about the difference between WP.com and WP.org. If you want to... [read more]

About the Author of 'The New Economics of Advertising'

March 28, 2008 by Dash Chang with 55 views

About the Author and This BlogI am an economics major from MIT with two of the first macro-economic models for forecasting the national economy.As a technology entrepreneur with an MBA from Stanford, I span:time sharing on mainframes;the invention of spreadsheets on personal computers;the first GUI for an accounting system and sharing... [read more]

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