One of the most interesting and valuable-to-me blogs I read is The Fluent Self. Authored by a woman named Havi and her promiscuous duck, this blog provides great intellectual and business insights in such a way that it feels like your best friend is gently but honestly nudging you in the right direction.
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It’s one of those bloggy quirks. You’ve done it 80 times before, even like, once last week at least. But you’ve gone and forgotten how to embed a video again. Relax. Bookmark this page.
Go to the video’s page and get the embed code there. Pretend Wordpress doesn’t have a button to embed YouTube videos. Just [...]

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Instead of sending online shoppers coupons or information about sales, executives and employees at Henderson, Nev.-based Zappos.com regularly tweet about what happens to them at the airport, the fact that they eat marshmallows in between phone calls and the state of the economy.
This article in the New York Times is so informational, I can barely [...]

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Continuing on with our theme of avoiding social media embarrassment,  I’d like to share this must-read article for everyone over the age of 16 who has a Facebook account.  This comprehensive piece details how to CYA from every angle on the ubiquitous, all-knowing Facebook. It won’t save you from being tagged in unflattering and possibly [...]

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Via JK Virtual Office Resources, a cautionary tale for the internet age about the power of good and bad internet attention and your brand. Background: Motrin created some ads that unintentionally portrayed mothers in a less than flattering light. From the article, some key points:
…outraged mums, furious at the suggestion that their babies were a [...]

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By now, most tech-savvy marketing strategies include some social media marketing. This cool Mashable post highlights 30 new applications to do more for your business with Facebook.
And none of them involve saving the rainforest through the exchange of virtual plants, thankfully.
Think LinkedIn is the only place for business? Facebook is growing rapidly and it’s becoming [...]

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Who had the best coverage of this week’s plane crash? For timeliness- Twitter. Below the snippet, the article covers the coverage pretty thoroughly.
Worth noting: Flight Captain C.B. Sully Sullenberger has a Facebook fan page with 197,077 fans as of this post.
… a US Airways jet made a water landing on New York’s Hudson River, shortly [...]

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Facebook is now technically the 8th most populous country in the world. Are you using this resource to reach out to your client base?
I’ve seen resistance when developing marketing initiatives, but those numbers should be enough to overcome most reticence with this new medium. (Via Lifehacker)
Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people around the [...]

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