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SOCIAL MEDIA EXAMINER

• How to Use Google Analytics: Getting Started

• How to Create Awesome Online Videos: Tools and Software to Make it Easy

• How to Use Facebook Audience Insights: What Marketers Need to Know

• How to Make Twitter In-Stream Images Stand Out

• Animated GIFs on Twitter: This Week in Social Media

CHRIS BROGAN

• The Integration of Business and Health

• MSNBC Your Business

• Are You a Performance-Minded Professional?

• Start Somewhere

• Own Your Life

BRIAN SOLIS

• Disrupt or Be Disrupted: Welcome To The Disruption Revolution

• #Philoselfie: Science behind selfie-expression

• A Return to Simplicity, Empathy and Imperfection in Communication: Human to Human #H2H

• Hello, It’s Nice to Meet you…Again: Your Digital Reputation Precedes You

• GoldieBlox vs. the Beastie Boys – What Constitutes Fair Use?

COPYBLOGGER

• The 8 Types of Images That Increase the Psychological Impact of Your Content

• A Sobering Lesson on the Value of Compromising Your Creative Ideas

• How Successful Writers Curate Ideas

• Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Writer? Answer This Question to Find Out …

• AWeber Now Offering 7 Beautiful, StudioPress-Inspired Email Templates

PROBLOGGER

• Blogging Like a Shark: 10 Secrets to Bootstrapping Your Blog into a Business

• 9 Powerful Tips To Help Freelancers and Bloggers Sell Digital Products

• How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers

• Six Simple Steps to Optimize your Blog’s Video Content on YouTube

• Why Bloggers Need to Do More Than Just Trademark Their Blog Name

CONVINCE & CONVERT

• How to Choose the Right Social Channels to Reach Your Customers

• How to Develop a Successful Digital Coupon Campaign

• The symbiotic relationship between social and content

• The Best Google Analytics Metrics for Social Media Professionals

• Google Embraces Real-Time Data and Visuals To Share Search Trends Around The World Cup

SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLORER

• Swallow your fear and start measuring

• Why It’s Good To Be The Asshole

• 6 Tips to Set Yourself Up For Success When Working Remotely

• Eight tips to kick summer’s butt

• What if you could create content at the speed of thought?

SCOTT MONTY

• This Week in Digital – June 20, 2014

• Military Strategy and the Collaborative Economy

• This Week in Digital – May 23, 2014

• Driving Into the Sunset

• This Week in Digital – May 16, 2014

JEREMIAH OWYANG

• 12 Collaborative Services for Success at Work

• Tesla Lets Go, to Gain the Market

• Don’t Protest the Collaborative Economy –Lead It

• Here Comes the Collaborative Economy Customer Score

• The Collaborative Economy is for Business to Business

DANNY BROWN

• Three Non-Business Books for Your Summer Reading

• How to Build the Trust You Need for an Engaged Community

• Here’s to You, Dads – Happy Father’s Day

• Endemic Cultures and Why We Need More Logical Indians

• Six Easy Metrics to Measure an Influence Marketing Campaign

WEB INK NOW

• Communicate with customers in an agile and human way

• "The Art of Asking" the new book by Amanda Palmer

• How Beko develops products global consumers are eager to buy

• Injecting humor into your product descriptions

• John Green thumps Tom Cruise

EDWARD BOCHES

• Apple’s advertising problems may not be with its ad agency

• College degree, check. Resume, check. Internships, check. Interview techniques?

• Three ways to tell stories with data

• Leaked NY Times Innovation Report reveals what’s wrong with ad agencies

• Five creative and marketing books that stand the test of time

LIZ STRAUSS

• 5 Resources To Help You Pitch Like a Pro

• The power of an apology

• How to Work with a Web Design Firm; 5 Questions with Andy Crestodina

• Making a Healthy Choice When It Comes to Insurance Plans

• Content: The Fit Matters

LOGIC + EMOTION

• Is Sharing Link Bait a Huge Mistake?

• The New York Times Innovation Report is Both a Manifesto and Warning For Entrenched Organizations

• Native Advertising Isn’t The Enemy—We Are

• Why It’s Time To Re-Think Real-Time

• Social Business Isn’t Dead—It’s Just Connected

SIMPLY ZESTY

• Jobs at Simply Zesty – Technical Consultant

• Jobs at Simply Zesty – Account Manager

• Digital Ireland 2014: An Infographic

• 5 Reasons Why The Lego Movie Is Content Marketing At Its Very Best

• Opinion: What Do You Think Of Today’s Google Doodle?

BRASS TACK THINKING

• The Persistent Social Media Measurement Problem: A Mini-Manifesto

• The Cost of Letting Your Social Presence Slide

• Are You A Relearner? I Want YOU.

VIRAL BLOG

• The Best Fan-Made Game Of Thrones Credits

• Twitter Buys Video Startup SnappyTV In Social TV Push

• PSY’s New Hit Hangover With Snoop Dogg Goes Viral

• A Look Into Facebook’s Massive World Cup Insights

• Top 5 Viral Videos In Viral Friday: GoPro Shark Attack

CHRIS PIRILLO

• What’s the Future of the iPod?

• We’re Hosting VloggerFair with Tyler Oakley

• How to Blend Love with Work

• You Can See Baby Pirillo Kick!

• Cthulhu Called Diana

JEFF BULLAS

• How to Create Awesome Content for Facebook, Twitter and Google+

• 5 Key Viral Marketing Tactics Proven to Work

• The Ultimate Guide to Using Images in Social Media

• 10 Facebook Contests that Captured 10,000 Emails

• 21 Content Marketing Lessons from the New York Times

MARKETING PROFS SOCIAL MEDIA

• Big Data Has Arrived, but Big Insights Have Not

• Video Marketers Prove ROI Better Than Text-Based Marketers [Infographic]

• How to Be the Worst Email Marketer in 10 Easy Steps

• The Content Consumption Habits of LinkedIn Users

• The Psychology of Belonging: Why People Become Brand Fans

WE ARE SOCIAL

• World Cup: Messi vs Ronaldo

• We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #217

• World Cup: We’re all pundits

• World Cup: The best GIFs so far

• World Cup: Ghana tops social supporters

NEVILLE HOBSON

• The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #761: June 23, 2014

• Yo: Possibilities

• Is wearable technology an ethical nightmare for PR?

• #FutureComms14 has what you’re looking for

• The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #760: June 16, 2014

FUTURE LAB

• Most Important Post I Have Written This Year: What Does It Really Take To Know Your Customers?

• Why CIOs Are Smarter Than CMOs

• New MSI Blogger: Hutch Carpenter

• Positive Deviance vs. Best Practices

• Dumb Comments by Others Make YOU Look Dumb

WHAT’S NEXT BLOG

• Netflix rocks branded content, Agencies resist G+, Starbucks pays tuition [VIDEO]

• 2014: Twitter bios show epic growth – to 297,897 – of self-proclaimed social media gurus

• Google My Business launches to lure business to Google+ Halelulah!

• 2nd Grader Uses Social Media to Start Anti-bullying Club

• VIDEO: Net Neutrality Rant, Funny Alarm Clock, United Breaks Guitars2

SPROUT INSIGHTS

• Examining the Ways Food Chains Reach Foodies on Twitter

• Community Manager Tips: Fossil’s Emily Felton

• How You Can Optimize Your Facebook Page for SEO

• G+ Hangouts, Content Marketing, and More Top Social News

• What Top Brands Teach Us About Content Marketing on LinkedIn

SYSOMOS

• Digital Mistakes? Seriously, It’s No Big Deal

• The NBA Rewards Its Social Media Stars

• Twitter Lets Users Hit the Mute Button

• The Customer Intimacy Imperative: What You Need to Know

• Want To Win On Twitter? Think Like A Good Host

IGNITE

• In The Eye of the Beholder: 11 Fantastic Eyewear Brands on Instagram

• Feeding Kids While Supporting Clients

• Twitter Adds GIFs and SnappyTV | #SYSK

• Boost Your Company’s LinkedIn Profile With These 3 Tips

• Linked Up on LinkedIn: Recruiting Talent via Social Media

SOCIAL FRESH

• How digital technologies can transform education in India

• Why Tesla’s technology sharing is beneficial for the electric vehicle market (and for Tesla)

• Do you tweet whilst you eat? How food and drink brands are experimenting with social media

• Why social is about more than just social data

• Digital trends round-up – June 2014

SOCIAL MOUTHS

• How to Increase YouTube Engagement [Infographic]

• 10 Tips to Improve Your Pinterest Marketing Strategy

• 6 Tactics for More Email Subscribers and Safer Money

• A Look Inside Facebook Audience Insights [Video]

• Send Your Email Subscribers to Different Landing Pages [Infographic]

MAXIMIZE SOCIAL BUSINESS

• How B2B Businesses Can Use Instagram

• How to Make More Online Sales by Knowing Your Numbers

• 6 Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Pins on Pinterest

• Be One Step Ahead of the Social Customer Service Game

• Valuable Lessons You Can Learn from Successful Brands on Facebook

HEIDI COHEN

• Are You Ready For Multi-Platform Social Media Use?

• Do You Need To Play Hooky From Your Blog? 5 Signs

• The 5 Course Content Curation Menu You Should Serve

DREAMGROW

• How to Use Social Media Channels to Build Your Newsletter

• 11 Reasons Why Newsletter Beats Social Media

• André Morys from the largest conversion agency in the world

SOCIAL SAMOSA

• [Video Interview] Sanjay Tripathy, HDFC Life, On Their Social Media Strategy

• [Video Interview] Sujit Ganguli, ICICI Bank, Talks About the Brand’s Facebook Application “Pockets”

• [Video Interview] Deepali Naair, Mahindra Holidays, On Correlating Social Media Efforts With ROI

SOCIAL MEDIA B2B

• B2B Sales Pros Need to Create Demand with Content Marketing

• YouTube Insights for B2B from the Frozen Food Master

• 11 B2B Social Media Takeaways from BMA14

DIT

• Truth, Lies and Product Descriptions – The Power of Association [Study]

• The ’3 Seekers’ of Gen C – Entertainment, Connection and Information [Google Research]

• The Kayak Effect: Why Making Customers Wait Drives Satisfaction

1000 HEADS

• Stay aHead: Tinder’s ‘Moments’ and Snapchat’s ‘Our Story’

• The week in social: Fire Phone, Facebook outages and “Yo”

• Point of view: What makes a good social strategy?

DAN ZARRELLA

• [Infographic] The Science of Selfies

• [New Data] Tweets Between 100 and 115 Characters are More Likely to be ReTweeted

• [New Data] Use “Quotes” and #Hashtags to Get More ReTweets

CHRIS VOSS SHOW

• IK Multimedia iRing Motion Controller For Music Apps Review @IKmultimedia

• Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM Review @Sigma_Photo

• Hoodman Natural Lens Cleaning Kit Review @Hoodmanusa

PETER KIM

• Report: State of Community Management

• Briefings this week: April 21 – 25

• Video: Interview at SAP CRM 2014

SOCIAL @ BLOGGING TRACKER

• 5 Best Social Media Apps to Help Market Your Brand

• 5 Best Social Media Campaigns Aimed at Mobile Users

• 5 Apps to Manage Your Social Networks from Anywhere

SOSHABLE

• How Social Login Helps You Get Better Customer Insights

• Putting to Rest the Concept of “Organic” Social Media

• 4 Ways to Make Context the Weapon of Choice for Conversions

QUICK ONLINE TIPS

• How to Show WordPress Comments on New Page

• Google Displays Special Doodle on Your Birthday

• How to Add Popup Comments in WordPress Posts

BRANDWATCH

• The Power of Promotional Products for Brand Recognition

• Becoming the Market Leader: Using Topics to Stay Fresh

• The Technology That Powers Beautiful Data: Developing Vizia

SOCIABLE

• Small Businesses: Online Presence Tips in the Home Improvement Industry

• 5 Great Ways of Socializing Your Online Property

• Why Your Business Might Still Be Better Off Using Microsoft Products in 2014

SHOUTLET

• Forrester Survey Suggests Teens Jumping Back on the Facebook Bandwagon

• 5 Characteristics to Look For When Hiring a Social Strategist

• Insights from 7 Leading Brands at Europe’s Social Media Strategies Summit

PHIL GERBYSHAK

• Strategic Source and Sell: Channel Diversity Survey [infographic]

• Top 10 Tools to Connect You to Your Customers

• Do you do B2B Social Media? [LinkedIn InfoGraphic]

SOCIABLE BLOG

IF

SOCIAL STRAND

• Pinterest adds Place Pins for Local Businesses

• 3 LinkedIn Company Post Features You Ought to Know

• Social Media Tip Tuesday, November 19, 2013

ELI ROSE

• I Don’t Like Facebook. That Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t Useful (Sometimes)

• Your Curated Awesome for 6.20.14

• Cold-Blooded Business Lessons

PUSHING SOCIAL

• [Podcast] Episode #17: Noah Kagen – Hacking Your Headline For Success

• Fired Up Friday

• How to Quickly Resurrect a Dying Blog

ARI HERZOG

• It Is Hard Saying No

• But It Is Not Mundane, Meg!

• Rethinking Blog Comments Again

MINDJUMPERS

• Research-Driven Ideas for Social Data

• ECIS2014 – New Views on Social Networks

• How Calvin Klein Has Created Dialogue With Customers

KOMMEIN

• Here’s What’s Wrong With Freelancing Today

• The Argument for Keeping Those Blog Comments Open

• Are You the Real Deal?

COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS

• What Does Social Media Have To Do With Game Of Thrones?

• New Tech Showcased At World Cup

• Bitcoin And The Future of Currency

LONDON CALLING

• What’s in a (generic top level domain) name?

• IBM’s new TV commercials made with IBMers

• Collaboration made with social – new IBM TV campaign – #MadewithIBM

FEVER BEE

• The Founder-Driven Model Of Creating Communities

• How To Research Your Community’s Prospective Members (FeverBee’s Process)

• Downloadable content

COMMUNITY SPARK

• Community building success from just one new member

• 5 ways to address stalled community conversations

• Community building and social media marketing done right

FIRE BELLY

• Searching For A Social Media Marketing Agency: A Round Up

• How to Prepare For A Search For A Social Media Marketing Agency

• Seeking Savvy Social Media Manager For Owned Media Team

LIVEWORLD

• 20 years on: eWorld, Apple’s spectacular online ‘portal’ failure

• Social Media ROI Doesn’t Start with Measurement, It Starts With Goals

• How To Create Your Brand Identity On Social Media (3 case studies)

PRO BLOG SERVICE

• How to Spot (and Block) Twitter Follow Spammers

• The Sure-Fire Writing Process for New Writers

• Handshake is NOT a Verb

PAMORAMA

• Social Media Marketing Tips and Tricks for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and More

• Facebook’s Organic Reach Decline: How to Respond

• Using Hashtags in Social Media Marketing

KRISHNADE

• Visual Content Marketing Show Episode 6 – How to take the production of your Google Hangouts to the next level

• Visual Content Marketing Show Episode 5 – How to use Google Hangouts to boost your online visibility

• Visual Content Marketing Show Episode 4 – How to use Google Hangouts if you are a chef or food blogger

INKLING MEDIA

• 5 Steps to Take When Yelp and Trolls Collide

• The Social Life of Frank & Linh: World Cup…of Coffee

• The Product/Customer Service/Marketing Continuum

ADI GASKELL

• Boredom and creativity

• The power of personal brands to online newspapers

• The science behind Buzzfeed

BETTER AT MARKETING

• Meet The Todaymade Interns

• Public Speaking Tips for the Non-Public Speaker

• It’s Your Fault Your Customers Expectations Are Ridiculous 

IDEAS BY BLOG

• Our DNA In Pictures TV and Cinema Campaign

• Important Reasons Why Market Research Is Important When Developing Your Marketing Strategy

• What’s In A Name? From Crowd-Sourcing Names To Choosing The Pope

DCINCOME

• 4 DUMB Chiropractic Website Mistakes

• Free Chiropractic Marketing Ideas That Attract More Patients

• Social Media Marketing Expert Speaks in the Dominican Republic

JOSH PETERS

• An Open Letter To Those Bitching About Instagram Ads

• Horizon Media Partners With BuzzFeed and Its Social Storytelling Program

• This Blog Is No More… For Now

CONNIE BENSEN

• Oprah Winfrey

• How to Make a Business Social

• How to Find a Job in Social Media

INTEGRATED ALLIANCES

• 4 Twitter Strategies to Tweet like a Bird; not a Robot by @seansullivan110

• How I learned what I didn’t know I already knew about #Facebook from @HotLou by @LinkedInDiva

• The LinkedIn Profile Header – How to Improve Your Look

LEADER NETWORKS

• Social Media for Strategy-Focused Organizations

• Secrets of Great Communities And Community Managers

• 56 Lessons From 20 Years of Online Community Building