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The Great Debate: Is Social Media Bullshit? [PODCAST]

by Jason Spooner · April 26, 2013

Welcome to the latest episode of Explore Marketing Uncensored, Social Media Explorer’s official podcast. Explore Marketing Uncensored is your one-way ticket into the twisted minds of some of the greatest digital marketing and social media thought leaders around. The goal: to provide marketing executives with the knowledge they need to be rock stars in their organization.

For this episode Brandon Mendelson, author of Social Media Is Bullshit, goes toe-to-toe with hosts Jason Spooner and Jason Falls, to finally state once-and-for-all whether or not social media is indeed bullshit.  Inspired by Jason Falls’s and Brandon’s fireside chat at the last Explore event, the group talks through the various shades of bullshit currently affecting the social media marketing world. We also identify the true “secret” for how to get your content to go viral. No bullshit.

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Power 100: Top Banks and Credit Unions Using Social Media

by Nichole Kelly · April 8, 2013

Social Media Explorer is proud to announce our partnership with The Financial Brand to release the Retail Banking Power 100, a list of the top 100 banks and the top 100 credit unions on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. This list is a joint effort to celebrate those who are doing amazing things in social media. We worked with Jeffry Pilcher, Editor of The Financial Brand to start the conversation of which banks and credit unions are crushing it on social media channels. To accomplish this we used readily available data to compile the initial list in an effort to create an objective view of where banks stand. We did add a little bit of subjectivity by weighting the number of points assigned for each category of data.

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Only Birdbrains Bet $4,000,000 on the Super Bowl

by Barry Feldman · January 27, 2013

It’s the Super Bowl—at the Superdome.

Super bros John and Jim Harbaugh lead their teams into the battle by the bayou. Everything’s supersized: the anticipation, the audience, the ticket prices, the parties, the halftime show, and the media coverage.

Of course, the enormity of the game dwarfs any other one-day clash in all of sports. And then there’s that other super showdown, the mega-million dollar mêlée where the titans of television advertising dig deep into their imaginations and deeper still into their piggy banks to vie for, uh… um…

Sales? Brand awareness? Laughs? Press?

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If You Don’t Treat Social Media Like Sex, You’re Doing it Wrong.

by Barry Feldman · December 5, 2012

I was at church when I got the idea for this article. It’s not as twisted as it may sound. You see, my wife and I went to hear psychologist, leadership consultant, and best-selling author Dr. Henry Cloud lead a marriage seminar. On day two, at about half past the second cup of coffee, we got into sex. The good doctor told us we need to have intercourse. Then he told us the definition of the word.

in·ter·course [in-ter-kawrs, -kohrs]
noun — interchange of thoughts, feelings, etc.

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SoLoMo Show Ep 33: What’s New in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and How Social Affects Your Page Rank

by Adam Helweh · August 25, 2012

The SoLoMo Show is a weekly podcast hosted by Adam Helweh and Cory OBrien. Each week they discuss topics, trends and tactics related to social, local and mobile marketing.

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5 Things Connected Campuses Do Well

by Jason Falls · May 30, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Jill Carlson, the Inbound Marketing Manager at Argyle Social.

Colleges and universities are using social media more than ever before to connect with alumni, students, prospective students, and their communities. But there’s a big difference between who’s doing it well and who’s just doing it to, well, just keep up in a US News and World Report kind of way. And the universities that are dominating social media seem to have a few things in common.

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If Social Media Were A Stock, How Much Would You Invest?

by Ilana Rabinowitz · September 28, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I attended a conference for e-commerce executives. There were two keynotes that blew me away.  For opposite reasons.

The first was by Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist, who spoke about the exponential growth of technology, science and medicine. Showing several graphs indicating year-over-year growth in the triple digits, he demonstrated how the world does not only seem to be changing faster than we remember in these areas — it is. As a result, a few years in the future, technology will change in ways that are beyond (most of) our imaginations. The trajectory of social media is even steeper than most of the changes that Kurzweil demonstration.

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What Role Do You Want Social Media to Play in Politics?

by Nichole Kelly · August 5, 2011

Last Friday Mashable reported that President Barack Obama’s recent #compromise campaign actually cost him over 36,000 followers. Was it an example of how “not” to use social media to move a political agenda or was it a great example of how to spark conversation amongst constituents? I’m sure that’s going to be an open debate for awhile. While we consider the thought of whether Obama and his social media team made the right decision with the campaign, it opens an even bigger question. What is social media’s role in politics? Where do we want to see social media in the political conversation?

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When Content Is Not King

by Ilana Rabinowitz · July 27, 2011

You’ve done your homework, listened to customers, provided thought leadership and created great content.  You’re offering relevant, valuable information to your audience.  Now, if content were king that would be enough. But it’s not.

Isn’t providing information that leads people to know, like and trust you the essence of marketing? What more is there?

For one thing, there’s conversion.  Conversion tells you if your content moves people to act.  Did all that content drive people’s behavior in some way?

Content that doesn’t move people to ultimately take some kind of action doesn’t count. 

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