How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them? How about a bitchy tweet on Twitter? Fight with them? Ignore them? Promise to do better? Many social media guidelines have a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to addressing negative criticism in social networks, but assessing the situation and the potential positive vs negative outcomes of responses is a skill that comes from experience. PS: Your marketing intern may not have that skill!
I often write on social media revenue – how social media sites like blogs and forums and social networks monetize. One way is pretty simple – sell it! The Huffington Post just sold for $315m to AOL (America Online). How do you think AOL will make their money back from this blog?
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An Australia mother confronts a teacher who belittles her pre-school son – with the help of her blog community. PottyMouthMama had a challenging experience with her young son’s pre-school teacher the other day. I would’ve growled at the teacher, gnashing teeth until she backed into a corner crying, but that is a learned skill, I wasn’t born with it. Though fighting with my little sister helped! From PottyMouthMama: Yesterday when I dropped the Doctor off to pre-school I got chatting with the teachers. One of them started telling me about how the previous day the Doctor was telling another child Continue Reading…
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embargoed press releases and bloggers
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Journalists are starting to receive grants to learn social media technologies like SEO. Should we hold a Media and Career Expo where bloggers donate knowledge and expertise to help Journalists adjust?
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Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!
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I think it’s been a couple of years since I last ran this course – dunno why, maybe because it’s not business focussed specifically, more a general, handson, computer, How To Blog Course (1 full day), on 30th May at the University of Sydney. Course description: Been thinking about creating a blog for your business or hobby? If you are a budding writer, have a passion for your hobby, are travelling soon and want to keep a travel photo diary online or simply have something to say, this course will teach you the basics of blogging and how to gain Continue Reading…
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from Addrox You are here because you were looking for scarves (go to http://silkcharm.com) or you were searching for stuff on social networks or you found this blog due to my old silkcharm blog (http://laurelpapworth.com). I’m guessing…. 3? Clever ol’ you. The feed for this new blog is http://laurelpapworth.com/feed/ or you can keep using the feedburner one. If you see anything that breaks, please email me? laurel@laurelpapworth.com.
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Note: I’ve moved my blog here as my previous bloghost appears to be a morally bankrupt marketing company involved in cashing in on brandnames and bad faith use of domain names and goodness knows what else *sighs* you’d think with my background I’d not have fallen one of those. I have no patience for unethical types >< ___________ Welcome to my weblog. I’ve given in and done one, more as an exercise in viral marketing than because I think anyone is really going to sit and read it… weblogs are for the benefit of the authors not potential readers, after Continue Reading…
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