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Attending conferences, reading blogs, listening to podcasts, and talking at meetups will reveal social media rules that many think cannot be broken in order for an activity to qualify as legitimate and successful. I’m here to tell you that most of the rules are bunk, and we as an industry to ourselves a disservice by frightening off potential participants with absurd proclamations of the way things must be.
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from davnoel 1621 Days ago #
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This was a great post.  I have never visited that site before;  thanks Maki.

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from dmcorp 1621 Days ago #
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Excellent post. I totally agree with point #3, that press releases are alive and well. They are my second largest traffic source leaving Yahoo and MSN in the dust. One release - now three months old - has over 180,000 headline impressions.We just need to change the way we thing about press releases. In traditional media, there was a finite amount of space. The web is infinite and the press releases live on in keyword targeted RSS feeds. So don’t wait for something "newsworthy." Send press releases all the time, every speaking engagement, function, promotion and announcing every single newsletter or podcast.

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