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Internet marketer Jack Humphrey has curated some great content in a post called “The Content Guide for Bloggers” which I in turn, have curated for you…

“Content curation as a blogging model is widely misunderstood by most bloggers and marketers. Many people would tell you that curation is about finding and posting links of related material around a certain topic or keyword.

And they would be wrong if the goal was to get people and search engines to appreciate and react to said content. (And if your goal is to use curation as a means to get attention, then make money, from what you are doing.)

Real content curation is a set of links and snippets to other material on the web along with insightful, expert analysis provided by the curator.

There’s been an explosion of content on the web around “curation.” And new services that seek to make the process easier for different groups of users.” Source: The Content Curation Guide for Bloggers | Internet Marketing Consultant Jack Humphrey

In the model I teach my students, there are two main types of blog posts; creation and curation. Optimally, in my model, about 5-10% of my posts are creation posts. The rest is all curation. Why? Continue reading “Why curation rocks, part 1”

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I disagree that “the high growth rate is mainly attributed to the increasing availability of low cost, feature rich mobile phones in emerging economies. Consumers in these markets are increasingly looking to these phones as their source of internet connectivity.” I mean, have you seen your cell phone bill lately? I think it’s more of an addiction or trends, but the fact remains that the mobile platform is growing rapidly and smart business owners will pay attention. You can follow the ‘via’ link above to read the underlying data…

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Here’s what’s been fascinating me for the last 24 hours…

 

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Consider this…

Every job requires a variety of skills to be successful, and social media marketer or communicator or specialist at a B2B company is no different. But when you start to list out the skills and realize the level of competency required for this postion, it becomes daunting to find individuals with all of them. If you were looking to make a social media hire, which may be a quaint thought in a few years, you must determine what skills hold the highest priority for your organization. This may be difficult to determine if your B2B company is looking for the person to start the company’s social media programs.

And if you are looking for a social media postion, while you cannot excel at all of these, you must excel at several of them and possess a high level of proficiency at most of them. So let’s take a look at the major skills, which I have presented in the form of positions or job titles.

Follow the ‘via’ link to go to the source where you can find all the skills you need…

I was talking with a friend last night who asked me if the BlackBerry was dying. I didn’t have the heart to tell him that imho, it’s a dead man walking. What smartphone do you use? Do you disagree? I’m Android, btw…

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Go to the source to read the article: allfacebook.com

Comment or ‘connect’ so we can talk about how this applies to your organization…

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