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Humble PowerPoint slides can go a long way if you use them creatively on the social web. Here are seven ideas to get the most out of your slides.
By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist I’m morbidly fascinated by failure. As of late, I’ve been scouring the web looking for failed social media programs.
In a blog post almost two years ago about the best business idea for social media marketing, I made a prediction that I think stands up.Â
A guest post from {grow} community member Taryn Erickson A perpetual ‘go-getter’ by nature, when I jumped into the Social Media scene it was a
It’s all about the conversation. Have you heard that a thousand times? It’s a ubiquitous mantra of the social web to the point where sometimes I think

Google Plus won’t be the Facebook killer gurus predict because the psychological switching costs are too high.

Social media marketing progress in a developing country
Now here is a neat trick. Precisely as your read this exciting guest post from the brilliant Jon Buscall, I will be meeting him for
It’s time to step up and address one of the great myths pervading the social web — that an essential best practice is decentralizing social media
By Sidneyeve Matrix, Contributing {grow} Columnist We know that people prefer to connect with other people, not brands. Not too long ago, Mark wrote about
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