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How 5 top brands crafted their social media voices

Dec
2011
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Social networks are platforms for personal connection and dialogue, a reality that has proved challenging for many companies that are not used to speaking to their customers in conversational tones. As companies have established profiles on Facebook, Twitter and other social channels, many have had to develop their brand voices anew. Mashable spoke with the figures behind [...]

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Here’s the information facebook gathers on you as you browse the web

Dec
2011
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Facebook stirred up privacy concerns when it came out that its “Like” and “Share” buttons appearing all over the web actually report your visits back to Facebook servers. Now Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar has shared what personal information the company retains with its tracking cookies, as reported by USA Today. When you’re logged in, Facebook will [...]

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Stealth wendy’s campaign got 33,000 twitter followers in a month

Dec
2011
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A stealth campaign for Wendy’s brought on 33,000 Twitter followers in about a month with minimal ad support, a feat that many brands haven’t been able to match over several years’ time. The effort, which promotes a new mid-size burger called the W, revolved around a game show on Twitter using the handle@GirlBehindSix. (The six [...]

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Get app happy with HootSuite

Nov
2011
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HootSuite is the new App Directory platform in the social media dashboard featuring integrations with top social content providers: YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and Get Satisfaction. This advance release will provide HootSuite Pro andEnterprise customers with even more ways to engage social audiences. The HootSuite App Directory provides a platform for third-party developers to integrate existing apps or build [...]

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17 twitter marketing tips from the pros

Nov
2011
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Are you looking for fresh ideas to improve your Twitter marketing? Now’s not the time to let your Twitter marketing go stale. Twitter has already grown more in the last 9 months than in the last 5 years and this trend is expected to continue. How does Twitter fit into your social media marketing? Here are 17 Twitter marketing [...]

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How to schedule tweets in tweetdeck for desktops

Nov
2011
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is the most famous and commonly used twitter client for desktops. The reason being its  rich features and user friendliness. This app running on Adobe air gets updated often to blend with the latest offerings in social media. The latest feature additions like scheduled tweets, Foursquare, Google Buzz etc   makes it more powerful and [...]

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A guide to generating leads on LinkedIn

Nov
2011
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To me, LinkedIn has always seemed like more of a place to hunt for a new gig than anything else. And since I haven’t been in the job market for a while, I’ve paid it little mind. Plus, I’ve always thought LinkedIn was kind of … well, boring. If Facebook is a rave at a [...]

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Facebook to build a huge server farm in the arctic…because it’s cold

Nov
2011
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Facebook will build its first non-U.S. server farm in Sweden on the edge of the Arctic Circle, reports the Telegraph. Lulea, a town in Northern Sweden will be home to an enormous server farm which will use as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people. Some of that power will come from sustainable energy generated by [...]

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Corporate logos in CSS

Nov
2011
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Find out how to draw the twitter logo (amongst others) with no images, no JS just CSS. Visit site

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Facebook ‘may be changing brains’

Nov
2011
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Facebook may be changing people’s brains as well as their social world, research has shown. Scientists have found a direct link between the number of “Facebook friends” a person has and the size of specific parts of the brain. The regions involved have roles in social interaction as well as memory and at least one [...]

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