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How social media amplifies competitive advantage

When Jay Baer speaks, I listen. In fact, the blogger and co-author of The Now Revolution is one of the smartest guys I know. But he wrote a blog post […]

Ascent of the social media climbers: Klout goes mainstream

How important is your social scoring and your social influence?

Please take accountability for your social media experience

Maybe it’s a coincidence, maybe it’s a trend, but I’ve noticed a few posts lately with a theme of how social media is becoming a mind-mucked echo chamber of mind-numbing […]

How to make your company blog connect like a personal blog

By Srinivas Rao, Contributing Writer As director of social media for Flightster one of my very first assignments was to create and maintain our company blog. When I researched other […]

Take the mystery out of Twitter once and for all

Twitter has changed my life. That is not the kind of statement I would make lightly, but it’s the truth. For about a year and half I have been teaching […]

Case Study: How Twitter Saved My Business

I loathe business networking. The Chamber of Commerce meetings. Networking “speed dating.” Trade shows. Business Networking International. But when I started my own business, this seemed to be the only alternative. […]

How will you be remembered on Facebook?

Here’s a wonderful guest post from {grow} community member John White — one of my favorite writers on the web! “Daddy, tell me about Grandpa.” “I’m reading the paper right […]

Case study: How one blog post helped me get a job in social media

Antonia Harler is a friend from the {grow} community who blogged and tweeted about her challenges finding a job in social media marketing. And then, it finally happened! She has […]

Confessions of a smartphone douchebag

I have developed a twitch. I can’t go more than 15 minutes without reaching into my pocket, pulling out my smartphone and checking in with the torrent of communications coming at […]

Case study: Fast-growing B2B expands social media exposure

Drew Hawkins has become one of the most consistent contributors in the {grow} community. He recently commented that he could relate to the research on the explosive growth of social […]

Pee-Wee Herman, the Pinnacle of My Career

One of my tweets was featured on the home page of Twitter today. Usually this is a spot reserved for celebrities, news makers and world leaders but today, it was […]

QR Codes Have the Beer Can Problem

There continues to be a steady buzz about QR codes, those bar code-looking thingys that can be scanned by a smart phone to link you to added content, a website […]

LinkedIn Just Turned You Into a Butterfly

Don’t you think these bizarre new media “visualizations” have gone too far? The picture above is not a map of Africa on Acid, it’s a new LinkedIn product called InMaps. […]

Improve your blog. Stop writing for an audience!

I’m a little freaked about this post. I’m afraid people will read only the blog headline and get out their pitchforks and torches. So please glance at least a few […]

How a Blog Went From Zero to AdAge 100 in Nine Months

The success of {grow} has been stranger than science fiction and a wonderful surprise. In less than nine months, it’s rocketed up the charts from being unranked to as high […]