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Using Social Media for Community Action

July 12, 2010

Many of us use a variety of social media outlets for self-promotion or to promote assorted businesses, clients, and products to the online world at large. Some of us also use social media for advocacy. First and foremost in my mind is 12for12k, which did an amazing job raising money for charity throughout 2009. On [...]

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The Silkfair Social Media FAIL

January 26, 2010

In case you haven’t heard of Silkfair, they pitch themselves as a friendlier alternative to eBay and Etsy, though they do allow sellers to integrate their listings from both of those sites. “SILKFAIR makes buying and selling fun and easy.” The Silkfair Twitter Party In order to get the word out about their online marketplace, [...]

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Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley #4

December 2, 2009

In case you haven’t heard, Amy Mengel managed to convince me to get up in front of people and talk about blogging at the fourth installment of Social Media Breakfast Tech Valley, which is being held at the headquarters of the American Red Cross of Northeastern New York in Albany. Thankfully, it’s not just me [...]

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Protecting Your Personal Brand and Online Identity

February 17, 2009

In the Internet Marketing industry, we all have to consider both our personal brands and our professional brands. A handful of notable people have had to change their Twitter names to reflect job loss – statusgirl/melanienathan comes to mind first. We’re out there, promoting our accomplishments and those of our employers, in the big, wide [...]

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Social Media Really Does Bring People Together

February 11, 2009

Over the last 24 hours, I have been slightly losing my mind. The economy sucks, as we all know, knowing you’re in “good company” doesn’t help when you’ve been laid off from your job. Especially when, just two months ago, you thought you’d never have to look for a job again. (Which was huge, since [...]

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