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Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use. started making a list of all the social media I use.  So here it is. I

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asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically). There is also a rich library of new media literacy resources and a community of practitioners.  The Social Media Classroom (we’ll call it SMC) includes a free and open-source (Drupal-based) web service that provides teachers and As part of CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop exploring the use of web technologies in the service of communities of practice, we (John Smith and I!)

Thanks to Clay McDaniel in 13 Essential Social-Media 'Listening Tools': MarketingProfs Articles , and Jake Hird for his post on econsultancy.com Free Apps · Addict-o-matic – Allows you to create a custom-made page to display search results · BackType - a comments search and tracking engine · Bloglines - A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client · Blogpulse – A service of Nielsen BuzzMetrics. It analyzes and reports on daily trends within the blogosphere. · BoardTracker – A useful tool for scanning and tracking within

In this episode of Social Media Business podcast, the concept of freemium is introduced – what it is, how Flickr, LinkedIn, SecondLife are making millions of dollars from giving stuff away for free. This podcast comes from an overview of social media monetization revenues presentations and courses that I’ve been running for the last few years. or subscribe We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it?

In the second of this three-part series on Listening in Social Media, here is some of the best advice I found on how to listen: setting up your listening, analysing the conversation types, and what do with what you’ve heard. People are talking about your brand anyway, so you may as well get down in the weeds and know what’s going on. How should you listen? Beth Kanter has written a guide to listening literacy skills in Social Media Listening Literacy for Nonprofits which provides help for the bemused, or simply overloaded. Quoting Tania Yuki in her post on comscore.com : Listen to the good.

Is our preoccupation with measuring social media ROI counterproductive? In this article I look at social media from what might be a novel perspective. hope to convince you that social media use needs not impact the bottom line over the short term, and that our belief that it ought to is impeding our progress. As a business community, are we obsessed with return on investment? I

This is a hands-on computer based social media course that takes you step by step through how to set up, monitor and measure a social media marketing campaign. We use case studies and work through a real world social media marketing campaigns by both teamwork and individual use of internet enabled PCs. One of the Laurel’s popular classes for computer based social media marketing campaign Workshop Description PREREQUISITES Please bring your email logon and password details for social media sites that require email verification.

I hesitate to write an article about choosing a social media consultant because of concerns about bias and my obvious conflict of interests. After writing Social Media Carpetbaggers and Snake Oil Salesmen , readers remarked that they had heard enough about the kinds of social media consultants to avoid and were ready to learn how to choose a good social media consultant. The ten guidelines I present below Oh by the way, when I say “he”, I mean “he, she or they.” 8221; Biased I may be, but that biased, I’m not. #1