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You’re in marketing for one reason: Grow. Grow your company, reputation, customers, impact, profits. Grow yourself. This is a community that will help. It will stretch your mind, connect you to fascinating people, and provide some fun along the way. I am so glad you’re here. -Mark Schaefer
Trying to keep up with social media is overwhelming. Here are seven coping strategies.
Don’t wait for a crisis to go through a strategic renewal. Constant re-invention should be a core competency.
Recent posts have depicted marketers as slimy snake oil salesman but the author explains that there has been no better time to be in this profession.
Rutgers University has developed a one-of-a-kind program aimed at creating digital leaders in the non-profit sector.
Here’s a great example of how a college student used the social web to make her dream come true.

The new, hot market for social media consultants may be helping organizations use social media internally.
Despite desperate efforts to catch up, most companies are still far behind in their efforts to create a digital competency.
A survey of the most successful SM practitioners shows they’re using social media less that you think. Maybe there is an alternate path to success?
“Follow your passion” is common advice — but is that truly at the heart of success?
The transformation to a social organization will take new skill sets. Marketing? PR? No. Think again.
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