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Ford is gambling on the power of social media for the new marketing campaign surrounding the Ford Fiesta subcompact. The auto giant handed over 100 new Fiestas to “agents” selected from 4,000 applicants and
created YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter accounts for them to relay their experiences.
“Ford is taking [...]

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Sure, you use social networks to keep up with your friends, share vacation photos, and let everyone know that you’re traveling to Singapore for work. But using these networks for research can be extremely valuable to you and your business. Here’s how.
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If you’re online or social media savvy, and looking for work, here’s a site you should know about:
Tweet My Jobs.Com
It’s free and seems like a great concept. Good luck.
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Posted by: Geoff Caplan
Web Producer | Content Specialist | SEO
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Michael A. Stelzner, published author and founder of WhitePaperSource, has released a great report on the best tools to use for and the benefits of social marketing.
Download the report right now, and put away your credit card. There’s nothing to pay.
Did you know that 64 percent of marketers are spending five or [...]

In the face of hundreds of thousands of complaints, Facebook relented this evening saying that it would make some tweaks to the Twitter-like redesign it introduced earlier this month. Users had complained that the new design was unnecessary—and difficult to navigate. In a blog post, Facebook Director of Product Christopher Cox said that users will [...]

A recent collaborative effort by SEOmoz CEO Randfish and David Klein offers advice on how best to leverage advertising on Facebook and build investment confidence in the space.
The following is a summary of their findings, posted on SEOmoz.com.

Facebook, sporting hundreds of millions of users, makes a compelling case for investing (chart via Nielsen) in the [...]

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A few weeks after AOL (NYSE: TWX) denied it would hastily offload its $850 million Bebo acquisition, the social network is trumpeting a whole roster of new products offered not just through Bebo, but through AOL itself, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s mobile products, each of which is harmonizing user profiles. Designed to [...]

Social Media Smarts: Interview with Frank Eliason of Comcast aka @ComcastCares

Photo by Shel Israel
Twitter has become many things to many people and organizations for that matter, including Comcast.  It really says something when a company experiences the bite of consumer malcontent via social media and then turns around and becomes known as a best [...]

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B.L. Ochman also writes the popular What’s Next Blog.

Keeping up with social media is a daunting task. The No. 1 question I’m asked when I speak at corporate seminars and mention that I recently wrote my 7,000th Twitter entry is “How in the world do you have the time for [...]

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As the Web becomes a more social place, media companies are trying to make it easier to share links with friends, add comments to articles and extend users’ online identities.
This week, CNN will begin connecting “The Forum,” a site for political expression, to Facebook, the country’s second-largest social network, enabling users to [...]