Hi! *waves* I’m not really writing over here today because I have a guest post over here and I want you to go read it. It’s actually pretty hilarious (IMHO) and informational, about the importance of video. Wait. What are you still doing here? Go read my guest post ! I hav...

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Livefyre: a commenting system that captures the social stream. Optimize your blog for commenting, mobile, printing & more Target audience: Nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, cause organizations, companies, brands, start-ups, citizen publications, Web publishers, individuals. Here are some...

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I once infamously told Ken Mueller never to let me say I’d wake up early to get work done, if I could be doing it the night before . So here I am at dawn, (OK, a look outside the window confirms that it is actually BEFORE dawn) writing this post. I am up early for two reasons; one...

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Today’s post is brought to you by Ken Mueller, the owner of Inkling Media, a small Social Media and marketing company in Lancaster, PA. He’s quite possibly the coolest guy I know, and deserves a lot of pie. I have a secret about MJ: she’s a whiner. Just the other day she told me â€...

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Guest post by Brian Meeks Ken Mueller wrote a blog piece entitled 4 Little Known Blogging Secrets . It got me all worked up. The first 3 points were fine, but the 4th started my “ran t-o-meter& #8221; running. The article was well written and, sadly, I agreed with all four points. Th...

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Sometimes when I sit down to write, I find myself narrating what I see – “The sun is shining on the fields. The sun just went behind a cloud. The lobelia needs to be watered.” This is a symptom of too much input and not enough processing. I’m overloaded with stimulus, and...

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  It’s like this: Facebook has owned the social networking space. Google can’t stand to have anyone eat even a bit of their lunch. Google’s been trying to develop a product to compete with Facebook for years. There was the Buzz attempt and the Wave attempt, both failures. Now, ...

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Introduction The internet is full of articles claiming to transform the reader into the Social Media equivalent of Charles Atlas . I have written some of them myself (though hopefully while highlighting that that things are seldom as simple as ticking a set of boxes ). Bearing in mind...

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  Before we get to the official announcement today, I want to publicly thank a few folks who wrote recommendations for the winners this year: Jay Baer (former winner), Jodi Echakowitz , Abbie Fink , Marcus Sheridan , Ingrid Abboud and Ken Mueller . Thank you all for taking the time...

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Today’s guest post is from Ken Mueller of Inkling Media. Social Media platforms can be incredibly personal. For those of us who spend a good part of our day communicating via Twitter, it is not only personal, but has become second nature. So much so that we really do need to stop and think...

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