A few nice social media dashboards images I found:

Social Media Analytics Dashboard
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Image by Darren Krape
"Dash" is an unofficial analytics dashboard for Department of State social media sites. It pulls data from the Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube APIs. Currently, the site is the most comprehensive list of Department of State social media accounts.

View the functional beta

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Social-Media-Hub
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making it easy for companies to manage their social media activities from one dashboard

Social Media Dashboard: Unilyzer
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Image by marcoderksen
www.unilyzer.com

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Traffikd Social Media Marketing Blog Features Web Success Diva
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Image by Maria Reyes-McDavis
Traffikd, a very successful social media marketing blog, features the Web Success Diva and her uses of social media marketing to assist her clients in online success.

Social Media Marketing in Österreich
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Image by Hannes Treichl
Blogpost: www.hannestreichl.com/social-media-marketing-oesterreich

Original picture by John Mueller. Thanks a lot for sharing this gorgeous picture!


Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 08, 2013

Pubcon SFIMA Summit 2013 is coming up next week on May 14, and will feature not only a full day of top social media, optimization, and online marketing sessions led by over a dozen leading speakers, but also two highly-anticipated keynote presentations.

Melanie Mitchell, Digitas senior vice president and search marketing practice lead, and Rob Snell, managing partner at online business and marketing firm Snell Brothers Consulting, will each give a keynote address during Pubcons SFIMA Summit.

Pubcon SFIMA Summit takes place on Tuesday, May 14 at the Miniaci Performing Arts Center on the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie, Florida, and a variety of hotel options are conveniently located nearby for those traveling to the Fort Lauderdale area.

MELANIE MITCHELL AFTERNOON KEYNOTE

Longtime Pubcon attendee favorite Mitchell will be presenting an afternoon keynote address during Pubcon SFIMA Summit. Mitchell has been at the forefront of search engine marketing for over 13 years, and was vice president of search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) at AOL.

What I love most about Pubcon conferences is that people are truly there to learn, teach and help each other, Mitchell said. Pubcon always attracts a fantastic crowd that I learn from and always walk away with a lot of actionable notes, Mitchell added.

Personally, I am fascinated by how the digital space continues to evolve and my keynote will focus on how to design your marketing campaigns for your audience, how to increase audience engagement and how to execute complex digital campaigns within your company for maximum impact. Overall, I am excited about the speaker lineup and tracks that are part of the Pubcon SIFMA Summit and I am already looking forward to a full day of attending sessions, Mitchell noted.

ROB SNELL MORNING KICK-OFF KEYNOTE

Snell will be the featured morning kickoff keynote speaker at Pubcon SFIMA Summit. For the past 15 years Snell has been a leader in selling through the Yahoo Store service, generating over $ 10 million in Web sales for clients through his innovative marketing, skilled development and professional design work.

In 2004, our familys online dog supply business came off the tracks, Snell said. Sales growth stopped. Overhead skyrocketed. We took a hard look at our site, and made one simple, substantial change to how we sold online which more than doubled our conversion rate. That change, combined with ongoing improvements to our site, have resulted in over $ 15 million in additional sales above our normal growth, Snell noted.

Not everyone is a retailer, but the reality is that every company has to sell something to someone. My Pubcon SFIMA Summit keynote will cover how to establish your bonafides as a subject matter expert, how to leverage that authority with compelling content by recommending products that are solutions to your customers problems, and finish with tips on how to increase your conversion rate to make more from your existing Web traffic. And youll see lots of pictures of rednecks with guns and some fine looking bird dogs, Snell added.

WIDE SPECTRUM OF SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS

In addition to keynotes by Snell and Mitchell, the Pubcon SFIMA Summit will also feature a wide spectrum of sessions hosted by more than two dozen top speakers from the social media, online marketing, and optimization fields.

Registration is available now at pre-show rates to join in the outstanding learning opportunities and impressive session agenda on tap at Pubcon SFIMA Summit in Florida on May 14. Pubcon and SFIMA expect to see many attendees from the recently-completed Pubcon New Orleans 2013 event, as well as many who regularly make the trip to Pubcon Las Vegas in the fall.

Learn more and register at http://www.pubcon.com

About Pubcon

Pubcon is a multi-track educational conference hosted by Pubcon Inc. Pubcon, supported by the industrys leading businesses, speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors involved in social media, Internet marketing, search engines, and online advertising, offers an in-depth look at the future of technology presented by the worlds top speakers in provocative cutting-edge sessions.

For more information about the conference, contact Brett Tabke at 512-231-8107 or brett(at)pubcon(dot)com

For more details about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact Conference Director Jeff Randall at 512-686-1295 or jeff(at)pubcon(dot)com







It is common knowledge that social media is all about generating traffic to your website and building relationships with potential customers. This is true, but it is also not wrong to say that social media also involves internal relationships and internal management.

Execution of a social media strategy is a complex process which require ideas and inputs from all personnel from sales, research and product departments. These personnel have insights about almost anything that you need for a higher return on investments and this help you in taking difficult decisions throughout the implementation of such complex strategies.

5 basic reasons why social media marketing is all about internal relationships :

1) Knowledge – In order to have a higher conversion rate on your website, you need to understand the target market. This can be easily done with the help of experts. With their knowledge, you can understand the needs and wants of your potential customers and work accordingly. Your internal management may also help you with building relationships and increasing sales.

2) Public relations – The owner of the company is hardly its face. Hence, people usually don’t connect to the owners but to employees. Internal management helps you in connecting to the people and give rise to a higher conversion rate. Internal relationships also help you with building relationships with new customers as people find it easier to connect with your management.

3) Presence – The internal management makes your presence felt on the online industry.

There is nothing better than your CEO or your executives present on your website or on your social networking page.

4) Help – The insights you need to craft meaningful messaging already resides in your company. Focus on internal relationships to access that institutional knowledge. Reach out to people who might not be a part of social media.

5) Support – Your efforts ultimately have to start at home. Spend your planning phase identifying the right people in your company to engage for information, contributions and other forms of support. Engage them, and demonstrate the advantages to them.

 

Netvani is a Social Media Monitoring and Marketing Tool to help you expand your presence in social Media.


Sioux Falls, SD (PRWEB) April 20, 2013

Carsforsale.com dealer website designers are proud to launch an automotive website for B Car Smart Inc. This website features cars, trucks and SUV inventory for sale in an easy to navigate format. In this day and age, with consumers doing the majority of auto shopping before they visit a dealership, it is vital to have a website that provides the consumer with the information they need.

B Car Smart Inc in Waxahachie also has a vast array of marketing solutions offered to them via the Carsforsale.com dealer system. The dealer system offers social media tools, template posting systems, Web positioning and search engine optimization, wholesale networking, customer relationship tools, data reporting and more.

In business since 1999, Carsforsale.com offers great opportunity to grow B Car Smart Inc’s sales strategies, with millions of visitors viewing their inventory portal each month. This paired with dealer inventory postings on Dallas Texas FreeClassifieds.com, an exclusive automotive partner with Carsforsale.com, extends the dealer reach into further online consumer resources.

“Dealer sales and website development are at the core of what we do at Carsforsale.com. We are excited to have B Car Smart Inc partner with us,” said Carsforsale.coms Sean Coffman.

About B Car Smart Inc:

B Car Smart Inc is located in Waxahachie, Texas. B Car Smart Inc’s inventory can be found on Carsforsale.com.

About Carsforsale.com:

Carsforsale.com created in 1999 and headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD, is one of the fastest-growing and most popular auto classified websites. Carsforsale.com offers a fast and effective way to connect buyers with sellers of used cars. Carsforsale.com reaches millions of unique visitors each month and is a privately held company.

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Finance and Commerce – New Applications Leverage The Popularity Of Social Networks – 02/16/09
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Read: New applications leverage the popularity of social networks – Finance and Commerce.

“A lot of the gold in social media is in the analytics in giving people insight into how people behave on these social networks and finding trends within that data,” said David Erickson, director of e-Strategy at public relations and marketing firm Tunheim Partners in Minneapolis.


(PRWEB) April 13, 2013

Wireless broadband will be an integral and essential part of any advanced digital infrastructure. The mobile broadband market is also fast becoming a major income revenue stream for the providers, having taken over the mobile voice sector. But increased usage has caused data traffic jams on the 3G networks as the infrastructure was not designed for the rapid increase of traffic over the last couple of years. Anticipation of this growing demand has resulted in LTE becoming the fastest developing mobile technology to date and by the end of 2013, it is expected there will be over 230 LTE networks launched in over 80 countries.

This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Global Mobile Broadband Market (http://www.researchmoz.us/global-mobile-broadband-a-key-focus-for-industry-and-society-report.html) and is a valuable resource of insights, examples and trends. It provides information on the key statistics, supported by analysis and cases studies.

Turning towards the developing economies, it is important to acknowledge that mobile broadband will be the only way for telecoms to truly advance as there is little or no fixed infrastructure in place. This is not just important for telecoms but also for the important economic and social development of these markets, as it provides opportunities to access m-commerce services, m-banking; m-health, education and so on. Mobile broadband is already having a huge impact in the developing world and national governments and international agencies are recognising the enormous potential in utilising mobile infrastructure for a far more efficient, effective and productive delivery of their services.

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With mobile broadband now being embraced around the world – mobile commerce has become one of the hottest sectors and it is gaining importance for a wide range of industries, including telecommunications, IT, finance, retail and the media, as well as for end-users. It works best in those areas where it can emphasise the core virtue of mobile networks convenience. The enormous success of smart phones is linked to the Apps which are available and increasingly commercial models will be linked to these apps – which will result in further spectacular growth in m-commerce.

Key highlights:

Since the arrival of the iPhone in 2007, the platform has ceased being the network it has become the smartphone. This is the most fundamental change in the history of the mobile market.

By 2017 it is predicted that global mobile data traffic will have increased to well over a hundred exabytes a year.

Wireless broadband and FttH will develop, in a complementary and harmonious way.

By early 2013, there were at least 145 LTE networks in commercial operation around the world.

WiFi has established itself as the quiet achiever while all the attention has been focused on developments in the mobile 4G market; WiFi is delivering broadband access to millions of people free!

The United States and Japan are home to the most mobile broadband subscriptions in the OECD.

In 2013 in New Zealand; mobile broadband roaming data caps being trialled to reduce Bill Shock.

The mobile broadband market in Australia often becomes data saturated. In order to ease congestion, the mobile network operators have been progressively updating, expanding and rolling out faster networks to support the data explosion.

Practically all LAC markets have operating HSPA networks with the exception of Belize, Cuba, and a few Caribbean island nations. Altogether, there are 90 HSPA networks operating in 37 countries.

The M-Pesa mobile banking service in Kenya carries about 20% of the country’s entire GDP.

LTE tightens its grip on the Middle East mobile broadband market.

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United Kingdom Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media Market (http://www.researchmoz.us/united-kingdom-telecoms-ip-networks-digital-media-and-forecasts-report.html) The UK has suffered from lower economic output for three of the last five years. Economic data for the fourth quarter of 2012 showed the economy could slide into a significant triple-dip recession. Although not in the Eurozone, the UK during the last two years has also been obliged to contribute to the IMF and ECB bail-outs of southern European economies, thus exacerbating its own liquidity difficulties. GDP growth for 2013 is expected to be less than 1%, while the governments March 2013 budget has reflected the effects of the stalled construction industry, lower industrial production and falling economic output.

Brazil Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband Market (http://www.researchmoz.us/brazil-telecoms-mobile-broadband-and-forecasts-report.html) was a disappointing year, with GDP growth well below expectations. The sluggish result has been blamed on the unfavourable global environment. The only sector that grew in 2012 was services; industrial and agricultural activities both shrank. Investments in 2012 were down 3.6% and yet, paradoxically, domestic consumption rose by 3.1%, buoyed by a general sense of optimism. To revive the economy, President Dilma Rousseff adopted a series of measures to help spur much needed investment.

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A few nice social media networking images I found:

Post and Run: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Non-Reciprocal Broadcasting in Social Media Networks, by Diana Mini, Dusty “3600″ Ilford, and Krazy Kaplan
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A Flickr dilemma: Should you post when you have no time to visit your contacts and commenters?

See you this weekend…

(Diana+ mini with Ilford 3600)

BTC 2012 BORSA DEL TURISMO CONGRESSUALE – CONVEGNO SULLE PR DIGITALI E SULLA GESTIONE DEI SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK – MICHELE FICARA MANGANELLI ASSODIGITALE
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Il servizio fotografico completo dell’intervento di Michele Ficara come Chairman della sessione speciale sulle PR digitali e sulla gestione dei social media network con oltre 150 partecipanti, la sessione convegnistica più affollata dell’intera BTC borsa del turismo Congressuale, un evento unico nel suo genere che si è tenuto alla fiera di rimini.

A few nice social media marketing plan template images I found:

World Class Traffic Jam
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Dhaka (Bangladesh) traffic has been called one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. To be fair, this is a street adjacent to New Market and isn’t really a normal traffic road. For example, rickshaws are prohibited. Bangladesh has been promoting the use of natural gas (CNG) for over a decade resulting in significant reduction in smog.

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Nonprofit Marketer of the Year
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The American Marketing Association (AMA) and the American Marketing Association Foundation (AMAF) honored three nonprofit marketing leaders at its Nonprofit Marketing Conference in Chicago, IL, on July 16, 2009. Eric Overman, Operation Smile, received the Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award, and Anne Bergquist, YMCA of Metro Chicago, and David J. Neff, American Cancer Society High Plains, received the Special Marketing Initiatives and Social Media subcategory awards, respectively. The AMA/AMAF Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Awards honor extraordinary leadership and achievement in the field of nonprofit marketing.

Eric Overman is Director of Online Communities and Social Media at Operation Smile (www.operationsmile.org), an international medical charity dedicated to mobilizing a world of generous hearts to heal children’s smiles and transform lives across the globe.

Since joining the organization in 2006, Eric has launched its first Online and Interactive department, promoted integrated marketing programs, and introduced new technologies to increase donor engagement and empower supporters to also become advocates and fundraisers. These efforts generated 30 percent annual online revenue growth and resulted in email list growth of 500 percent. Eric is currently launching branded online communities and leading the charge to integrate social media into the marketing mix, as well as deploying an internal social business software platform to enhance global communications.

Eric’s blog, Disrupt IT (www.ericoverman.com), explores the impact of the emerging disruptive technologies and media on the nonprofit world. Eric lives in Virginia Beach, VA, with his wife, Karen, and two children. He serves as president-elect of the Hampton Roads American Marketing Association and holds an MBA from William & Mary’s Mason School of Business.

Anne Bergquist, Vice President of Brand Management and Marketing for the YMCA of Metro Chicago (www.ymcachgo.org), joined the Y in 2002. She is responsible for the Y’s brand image through its corporate marketing program that drives annual membership revenue in excess of million from more than 120,000 members at 19 branches across Chicagoland.

In addition to the corporate marketing strategy, Anne directs the development and execution of the marketing plans at each YMCA membership branch, enabling customization with consistent brand identity using guerrilla marketing, advertising, and promotional tactics at the local level. As a result of her efforts, from 2003 to 2006 the Y grew membership revenue by million and increased retention by 11 percent.

During her tenure at the Y, Anne restructured the corporate marketing department to function as an in-house agency serving 19 membership branches, six Human Services programs, and four resident camps. She also developed a comprehensive graphic design/copy template system for membership marketing, retention, and fundraising materials, ensuring maximized internal resources and consistent brand identity across the association. In addition, Anne developed and directed the Y’s first image awareness campaign tied to the YMCA’s 150th anniversary in 2008.

Anne has a BA in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband, Kent, reside in Chicago.

David J. Neff is the Director of Web, Film and Interactive Strategy for the American Cancer Society’s High Plains division (www.cancer.org) and is also the Executive Director of Lights. Camera. Help (www.lightscamerahelp.com).

In his capacity at the American Cancer Society, David directs all Web and interactive strategies and online properties for six states in addition to managing the division’s eRevenue strategy, social networking/media strategy, and online community strategy. As the executive director of Lights. Camera. Help, he is working to start the world’s first nonprofit-focused film festival.

David is a two-time recipient of a Futuring and Innovations grant, which he used to create C-Tools and SharingHope.TV (www.sharinghope.tv). C-Tools was the first PDA software tool for the prevention of cancer developed by the American Cancer Society, and SharingHope.TV is the nonprofit world’s first totally user-generated content Web site. In 2009, the Austin American Statesman recognized David as one of the top 25 Social Media People in the state of Texas.

David earned his BS in Public Relations from the University of Texas with a minor in Business from the McCombs School of Business. He currently lives in Austin, TX.