Sunday, October 31, 2010

Does Social Media have an effect in the real world?

Thought I would share this with the Social Media Learning Institute Community. Great article on social media's impact on the real world. 

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Article by : Lauren Fisher

There’s been a bit of debate lately, about the real effect that social media can have and whether it’s just a place to talk about doing things, rather than doing them.  Hot on the debate is an article by  Malcolm Gladwell, where he claimed that the ‘revolution will not be tweeted’. He examined whether social media could really impact on various aspects of activism. Social media didn’t come off too favourably, but the question mark remains. There is no shortage of conversation on social media, but can this really transform into a meaningful action?

http://www.simplyzesty.com/facebook/social-media-effect-real-world/

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
Www.smlinstitute.org
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

DC Trip was alot of fun.....

We had a great time in DC, and my Carah is looking good in front of the
Capital!

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
dwells@duanewells.com
www.duanewells.com


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Congratulations on the Wall Street Journal Coverage Kevin

Our instructor Kevin Nichols was featured in the Wall Street Journal today. 

Congratulations Kevin.

Be Careful Not To Tweet Away That Job Found Via Social Media

Mitchell Strobl is your average college junior at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., but the way he landed his new job is distinctly 21st century….

More Here:

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The conversation prism. Yikes!

The Art of Listening, Learning and Sharing.

This image is a very good representation of how social channels are
classified. Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
dwells@duanewells.com
www.smlinstitute.org

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Facebook Privacy Leak.......

Moral of the Story: Dont put any info out there if you think it can be used to harm you in any way

CNN) -- Facebook issued a stern warning to independent developers Monday in response to reports that some applications on the site were sharing identifying information about users.

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
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Welcome to our New Instructor Paul Chaney

I want to Welcome Paul Chaney as a new instructor to the Institute. 

  http://www.thesocialmediahandyman.com/blog/about.html

Paul Chaney, known to many as "The Social Media Handyman," is an Internet marketing consultant, popular speaker, trainer and author of The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media, published by Wiley.

Most recently, Paul served as Internet marketing director for Bizzuka, a web design, content management and Internet marketing company based in his hometown of Lafayette, LA.

Prior to that Paul was co-founder of Blogging Systems, a blog software company that significantly impacted the real estate industry by encouraging Realtors to adopt blogging as a marketing strategy. 

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
www.smlinstitute.org
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

SMLI Instructor Spotlight Kevin L. Nichols

We are proud to have Kevin L. Nichols on our staff at the Institute.

Here is a video from his latest engagement: 

The Social Media Breakfast in the East Bay Area

The Social Media Breakfast was founded by Bryan Person in August 2007 as an event where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn. Marketers, PR pros, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters, new-media fanatics, and online social networkers are all welcome to attend.

About Kevin

Upon graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1998, Kevin has been perfecting his craft as an expert in three distinct areas, legal, diversity, and social networking. In legal, Kevin has worked as a “jack of all trades” in some of the most prolific international law firms in the country, such as Morrison & Foerster, Paul Hastings, Heller Ehrman, and Holland & Knight. There, he has garnered relationships with some of the most influential and well respected legal minds in the industry, as well as junior associates who through attrition, are now Counsel for some of the top Fortune 1000 companies. Kevin is the President & CEO of KLN Publishing, LLC, and has been published in Law.com and the American Bar Association’s Business Law Corporate Counsel eNewsletter. Currently, Kevin is the West Coast Regional Sales Manager for iControlESI, a Litigation e-Discovery processing & hosting software company.

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
www.duanewells.com
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

Hillary Duff just moved in across the street from me

Pretty interesting.

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Is your blog getting attention?

In this post by Nathalie Lussier she talks about strategies for blog naming. 

Is your blog getting the attention you know it deserves? Maybe you haven’t started your blog yet because you can’t settle on the right name or theme. Perhaps you’re thinking of starting a second blog, butwant to “do it right” this time…

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Congratulations Team, FINALLY #1 on Google for a primary key-phrase

Hard work and good content does pay off. As of 7:50pm today if you search for "Social Media Learning" on Google our Twitter site comes up numero uno.

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
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How Small Business Will Use Social Media In The Future

I think Mashable does a great job with content and I wanted to share this with our Social Media Learning Community. It is a great article on how Small Business will use social media in the future.

Sincerely,

Duane Wells

412.654.6500
Www.smlinstitute.org
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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Web 3.0: What it means to me and what it means to Google

I recently re-did my personal website @ duanewells.com and tagged it version 3.0 . I normally do an update every 5 years or so and although I loved the first two versions I really needed to move towards something that let me syndicate myself properly across the range of information outlets that represented my digital presence. I see this a major move towards my participation in Web 3.0 and one that a lot of folks will probably end embracing for their own personal brand.

I found this interesting link to some comments that the CEO of Google made about Web 3.0 and I thought I would share them.

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is "a marketing term", Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" - with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Another List of Mistakes People Make In Social Media

I review sites on a regular basis that talk about mistakes people make when first getting involved in Social Media…..There is a million beginner mistakes that one can make but this list by Wayne Liew is some good basic easy to understand information.

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Last week, I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to be part of a panel, Harnessing Web 2.0 for Your Business at the National Web 2.0 Expo, which was held in conjunction with the SME Solutions Expo 2009.
Wayne Liew at SME Solutions Expo 2009
Originally, I was going to present 5 Social Media Marketing Pitfalls Beginners Must Avoid but I cut the points short to 3 due to time restrictions. Anyway, in this blog post, I am going to include all the 5 pitfalls together with detailed elaboration.
To those who attended the National Web 2.0 Forum, this blog post is meant for you as well. Remember, keep all these points in mind when you are ready to make social media marketing part of your business’ marketing strategies.
More……
http://www.wayneliew.com/5-social-media-marketing-pitfalls/
Sincerely,
Duane Wells
412.654.6500
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How State Farm Uses Social Media

I really like this article and think its worth reading…..

In this video I interview Kelly Thul, Director, Enterprise Internet Solutions at State Farm Insurance.  Kelly shares insights into how State Farm has over a million views on YouTube, how they communicate using YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook………..

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