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In 2012, companies and brands are more committed than ever to building a strong community around them, after having good experiences with social media over the past year. They have realized that creating a community around their brand is more than a simple promotion message and when it’s done, well the whole sales process will benefit from it. However, not all companies know how to build a community around their business or brand. Here are some tips that companies must take into account when taking the big plunge and start the real adventure in social media.

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Facebook recently launched the new biography so you can recover and collect the most important moments of your life. Starting today, you can choose from more than 60 applications to add to your life and express the things you like. The applications are available from Foodspotting.com biography, Foodily, Ticketmaster, Pinterest, RottenTomatoes, Pose, Kobo, Tripadvisor.com Gogobot.com and among others. Now you can improve your life with applications that help you tell your story: If you enjoy cooking, eating, traveling, jogging or watching movies..…continue reading…

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When we started on Twitter one of the main question that users ask is how do I get more twitter followers? When you have decided to enter you find that you don’t know anyone and no one follow you. You start to follow famous people, an artist, a journalist, writer, politician etc… but you realize that they do not follow you.You start to get into conversations and follow people related to you and suddenly you have 10, then 20, then 30, 40 and Yeah! Reaching 50! and with a little luck and hard work and patience and you have 100! But basically you have the desire to have more followers. How to get more followers? …continue reading…

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The first thing that attracted me to JustRetweet was the name. I love simplicity and that’s exactly what the site offers – an easy way to find stuff you want to share and retweet it with one click. I have been using the site as an antidote to my growing Triberr fatigue and so far, I like it a lot.
The JustRetweet interface isn’t fancy but it works. Everything you need to know about how the site works is on the rules page. Visit the home page to follow the three simple steps to joining the site…continue reading…

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Many bloggers ask about what they should create a Facebook page or Facebook groups, so today’s post I will be discussing about what is the best choice for you as blogger. So, how do you decide as blogger whether you need a Facebook group or a fan page? Although at first glance they appear to be similar to one another, fan pages and groups contain some key differences that you need to keep in mind when you are setting them up…continue reading…

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In the wake of a huge financial crisis that has given a serious hit to the job market, you might be surprised to find out that Twitter can also help you in that arena. In the last couple of years there has been a jump in websites that work by allowing you to search through tweets directed at finding employees for workers in every corner of the world. Not to mention, in every category imaginable. Here are eight websites that will work as tools in your search for recent job offers, but going through Twitter listings for leads…continue reading…

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Social bookmarking sites have been some of the largest traffic makers in the past 3 years. Major players like Reddit, Digg, and the new Chime.in offer instant access to hundreds of new stories, multimedia, and news updates every second for an online browser. This style of “instant information” has become very popular with high speed and fast paced internet users throughout the world. Reddit is showing their popularity by being currently ranked #47th for traffic on Alexa’s top United States websites.…continue reading…

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this time I’m focusing on Twitter and specifically, the things that stop me from sharing your post. Please note that this is my own personal viewpoint on the things that have stopped me mid-tweet and sent me away forever.…continue reading…

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If you signed up for a YouTube account but you haven’t figured out what to do with it, here’s your answer – start promoting your content! I know, I know…you have a list of excuses for why you didn’t make a video yet, but I’m prepared to address each one of your fears so you can get started with promoting your blog, your website and even your ebooks on YouTube! …continue reading…

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On Twimbow, you can assign Gmail-like color labels to users. Unlike Twitter lists (that you can use on Twimbow, as well), color labels lets you quickly identify a user or a group of users among the others and quickly filter them in / out in your timeline. By default, there are three labels: family, friends, coworkers. If you want to create a new label, click on the rainbow-colored icon on the top-left corner of the central column (home buzz) and click on “new label”. Then you can choose the name and the color.…continue reading…

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In the sea of Twitter apps and other solutions to monitor your success on social media, Crowdbooster towers above the rest. The unique interface provides users with both a broad overview of their activity and detailed insights to scope of their social influence at the same time. Although Crowdbooster is currently in beta, I strongly suggest that you apply for access now so you get in as soon as possible.…continue reading…

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Facebook Timeline is a new way to show you profile and as the name suggest it changes your profile in a time driven series. It shows activities from when you join Facebook to till now on a time scale (it can show activities for your whole life, you just need to go back and add these to your timeline). To create an app your account needs to be verified either through mobile or credit card. Click on Create app and give an name and namespace for your new app.…continue reading…

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First you should be aware of it from the clients and influencers to begin getting a perception of the type of information they are trying to find online. You need to then overlap the data with content distribution platforms: blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google + User Forums, etc. Within the first 3 weeks from the content execution you need to produce several types of content: text, audio and video and distribute them at different channels at different occasions.…continue reading…

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Twitter gives birth to relationships. But Twitter isn’t quite enough to build out strong, lasting relationships. You should not miss out on opportunities that start in Twitter but can go so much further beyond the Twitter “walls”. Use Twitter as a compliment to other tools and strategies as you build these invaluable relationships in this amazing human network.…continue reading…

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Sophos, a security company, pointed out few days ago that anyone you give admin rights on your Facebook page, can delete the page creator from the list of administrators. So be very careful about giving anyone the permission to be an administrator for your Facebook page.

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You’re thinking about investing in the premium version of CommentLuv, here’s what you need to consider before you take the leap! CommentLuv is a WordPress plugin that you install on your blog to reward those who comment on your blog posts, by allowing them include a link to one of their blog posts in their comment. Many popular bloggers, myself included, prefer using CommentLuv over the other alternative commenting systems available for WordPress like Disqus, and Livefyre and Intense Debate.The latest version of this plugin is CommentLuv 2.9 and it’s available for free. …continue reading…

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We all want to speed up our blogs and one of the easiest ways to do that is by removing WordPress Plugins that impact the time it takes for the pages of your blog to load, and provide little benefit to our readers. Personally I have nothing against any of these plugins or the developers. And as far as I know, each one of them does a fine job of living up to expectations in terms of functionality and purpose. But quite frankly, in the grand scheme of things, we can certainly live without them.…continue reading…

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On the Facebook Page for Basic Blog Tips, I strive to provide my followers with content that differs from what can be found here on the blog. I want the Facebook Page to be much more than just a “clone” of the blog and at the same time provide a venue where we can have a deeper connection and a more personal level of engagement than what can normally be achieved from a blog post…continue reading…

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I interview blogger and podcaster at The Boomer Beat, Bev Mahone, who was recently honored as one of The Top Black Social Media Influencers. Bev talks about her work in radio broadcasting and other aspects of her career and family life. …continue reading…

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I’m a Twitter-holic and last week I noticed a few tweets going out from my friends that were very strange. The tweets included nothing more that a link – without a description or any additional text to indicate where the link was going. Typically when I see a link like this on Twitter it looks very spammy and I would block anyone doing this. Imagine how I felt when I saw this type of link going out from my very own Twitter account!! Initially, I thought my account was hacked :( I was quickly able to determine that was not the case and figure out that the real culprit was the Tweet Old Post Plugin for WordPress.

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