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Helpful Tips On How To Gather Feedback

October 15, 2009
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Time and time again, social media practitioners have been emphasizing the need for businesses to get out there and reach out to their customers. This is pretty much the essence of social media – to connect and interact.
One good reason for businesses to consider interacting with their customers via social media sites is to be [...]

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How To Manage Corporate Twitter Accounts

October 14, 2009
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You may think tweeting is simple because you do it quite often when you’re online and talking to friends. However, you have to understand that being assigned the task to manage a Twitter account for companies is going to be different.
For one, you won’t be tweeting for yourself, but rather for a company. This means [...]

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Collaboration In The Eyes Of Social Media

October 12, 2009
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Customer relations have been an important aspect in any kind of business. But never has it been given heavy emphasis until social media came into the picture.
Admit it, how many times have you answered customer feedback forms never to hear from the company afterwards? Doesn’t it just make you feel like what you have to [...]

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Business Blog Writing 101

October 9, 2009
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Blog writing seems like the easiest task to do. That is, if you’re a writer and churn out ideas as easy as snapping a finger. However, if you’re a non-writer and would like to start getting into the business of blog writing and content creation, it can be quite a concern.
Questions like, “How am I [...]

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What You Should Be Doing With Your Blog Today

October 8, 2009
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Once in awhile we think about this and it gets deeply in our brain that it makes us restless. Is it because we started our blogs without a plan? Or have we reached our limit in giving good content to our reader? Where do we see our blogs 5 years from now?
Blogging has this hidden [...]

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Kendo Principles You Can Use In Social Media

October 7, 2009
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Kendo – The Way of the Sword is a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting. It is based on the traditional Japanese swordsmanship. I practice Kendo and I do love it. There are many things that Kendo can teach us both in the online and offline world.
Yeah, it sounds ridiculous and funny.  But give me [...]

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Now Is The Time To Shine

October 6, 2009
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Yes, to shine means to be noticed and to be noticed means a lot of opportunities. But let’s not talk about opportunities. We all long to be part of something, like a community. With so many people gathering around communities, one may say that to get noticed is one hell of challenge.
Indeed it is! But [...]

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Social Media Tools In Times Of Disasters

October 1, 2009
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As many of you know, we just had 3 disasters in this week alone. Typhoon Ondoy devastated Manila, an earthquake followed by a tsunami hit Samoa and American Samoa and another earthquake in Indonesia. Not a good week for all of us.
In times like this, social media can also help us. With free tools out [...]

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Do You Put Your Social Profiles In Your Resume

September 30, 2009
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Yesterday @lalayu was asking people if they’re putting their social profiles in the resumes.  Today, a lot of companies are searching the internet for the name of candidates applying for a particular position. Yes, I have experienced it in the past and sometimes, questions are being asked regarding your profiles during the interview.
People may argue [...]

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How Filipinos Communicated During Typhoon Ondoy

September 29, 2009
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Tropical Typhoon Ondoy, also known as Ketsana, was bigger than Katrina. With 410mm of rain, it unleashed relentless rain good for 1 month in 24 hours. It devastated Manila and more than 25 nearby towns leaving hundreds dead and 370,000 people displaced. The total amount of damage rose to Php 4.6B ($97.8M) It’s the strongest [...]

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How to Make Tweeting More Enjoyable

September 28, 2009
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I tweet a lot. I won’t deny that fact. I enjoy the interaction I get with other users from the posts we make or the replies we post on each other’s tweets. But I’d have to admit that it took me a while to get used to all the madness that is Twitter.
A lot of [...]

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Fake It Til You Make It

September 25, 2009
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You’ve probably heard a lot of use the words “fake it til you make it” as an encouragement to people who are starting out on any field. And it’s actually good advice, if you think about it.
The only problem is, it’s more often than not easier said than done. So how do you do it? [...]

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Loyalty And Marketing

September 24, 2009
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The practice of providing discounts, prizes, or other incentives to encourage continued patronage of a business. Generally, loyalty programs are considered less expensive to maintain than allowing customer defection or ‘churn’ (wikipedia). Is that how we should build loyal customers?
For years, when we think about customer loyalty programs, the first thing that comes to our [...]

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Another List Of Things You Can Do On Twitter

September 23, 2009
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We’ve previously talked about other things you could do with Twitter. But those were some of the more common ones. There are still lots of other things you can do on Twitter aside from media sharing and stuff.
Here’s a continuation of the list of other things you can do in Twitter:
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Businesses Are Hesitant About Social Media

September 22, 2009
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As social media practitioners, we are fully aware of how we can use the many social media platforms to help businesses grow. However, we can’t expect traditional business outfits to get it as easily as we do.
I should understand this, because I, too, was a bit skeptical about social media and its business functionality when [...]

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3 Simple Ways To Filter Tweets In Twitter

September 21, 2009
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Twitter is a very handy social media site to help keep you in touch with what’s going on with the people/companies/organizations that you follow through the site. However, the more people you add to your follow list, the more you find yourself lost in the massive tweets you receive each day.
You can literally get lost [...]

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5 Ways to Spread the Love In Twitter

September 19, 2009
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I have been talking about how you can use Twitter for your marketing your brand and finding contacts and all that for some time now. I’ve even posted a list of things that you can in Twitter aside from tweeting. But that’s still not all of it.
In as much as you want to make your [...]

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