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Notes and Blog Post Ideas from Social Media for Business in Corvallis

Feb 25th, 2010
by Loyan.
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The topic for Social Media for Business in Corvallis today is: So You Have a Blog. Now What? Here are some of our notes, ideas and a list of post topics (in case you are wondering what to write about).
NOTES FROM SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESS TODAY:
“Merit credibility” and “Invite feedback” where the two most selected reasons for [...]

How To Add Boxes to the Wall Sidebar of Your Facebook Page

Feb 1st, 2010
by Jason.
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I received a question from a local Corvallis business: “How can I get sidebar buttons on my Facebook Wall Page?” The example Facebook Page was the Sur La Table fan page.

We hadn’t done this before on the ProWorks fan page so I set about trying to do it. Turns out, its not too [...]

Selecting Social Media Guides

Sep 20th, 2009
by Loyan.
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John Bergquist, a fellow social media professional for whom I have a high professional and personal regard recently published a blog post suggesting that the title of “social media expert” is overstated if we consider his observation:

“Social Media is such a new frontier that there really is no way that someone could honestly claim to [...]

Conclusions on Google Caffeine (New Search)

Sep 16th, 2009
by Loyan.
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If you haven’t heard, Google has been working on a the next generation of their web search dubbed Google Caffeine. For the past month web professionals have been trying to figure out what impact this will have on the all powerful Google search engine rankings. After researching information from Google and independent sources my personal [...]

Using Flickr For Your Organization, Business, Product, or Charity

Aug 27th, 2009
by Jason.
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I’ve been using Flickr for about 6-7 years now for my blog and personally and I love it. It is the YouTube of photos. Tons of people use it and what make it really useful are all of the social media parts built right in.
One of the reasons I like using Flickr is [...]

ProWorks is Helping Businesses Leverage Social Media in Corvallis

Jul 22nd, 2009
by Loyan.
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Our third session on ‘Social Media for Business’ hosted at the Corvallis Chamber was attended by fourteen forward minded social media explorers around Corvallis. It was great mix including Mayor Tomlinson, marketing professionals, brick-n-mortar and web store owners. The mix of experience and perspectives made for some great discussions.

Some of the things we talked [...]

No iPhone? How To Effectively Use Twitter On Your Mobile Phone

Jun 9th, 2009
by Jason.
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With all of the iPhone buzz over the last few days, I thought I’d give some tips to those of you that don’t have a 3GS in your future. I’ve been using a Sony Eriksson w810i to browse, check facebook, tweet, and generally browse the internet sucessfully for almost 3 years.  This post is for [...]

Make Twitter.com More Useful Than TweetDeck or Twhirl

Jun 2nd, 2009
by Jason.
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The first thing I used to say to a Twitter noob was: “Get a Twitter client like TweetDeck or Twhirl because using it on the web sucks”.
After I discovered Troy’s Twitter Script I have a different outlook on the Twitter web client.  It simply does things that my Twhirl or TweetDeck client doesn’t do.  Here [...]

My Social Media Presentation Experience in Newport

Apr 15th, 2009
by Loyan.
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Last night Jason and I had the honor of visiting Newport to discuss social media and social networks with seventy-five business owners. That was in a nutshell: scary, rewarding, exhilarating, nervous, thrilling, insightful and intimidating. All at the same time. I have to admit that I was expecting a lower level of web savvy business [...]

The Power of Twitter

Mar 24th, 2009
by Alan.
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I have just recently hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, hoping to share some news from my design blog at alandesigns. I only have, what, 5 followers right now, so when I shared a link to my latest Adobe Illustrator tutorial I didn’t expect much. Lo and behold, I woke up this morning to a whopping [...]