by Grant Crowell.

I feature a video presentation of Ramon DeLeon, manager of six Domino’s Pizza stores in Chicago, and a frequent vlogger and public speaker on social media marketing. Ramon is the recipient of the Chicago Social Media Club’s 2011 Chicago Social Media Person of the Year Award, and is a speaker at the upcoming Blogworld & New Media Expo 2011 in Los Angeles November 3-5^th.

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by Tom.

America loves social media!  We love our Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube videos.  We love to be able to express ourselves, our thoughts, and our emotions on a whim.  Social media has given us that technology.

We also love the ability to communicate.  Owning a cell phone is about as common as owning a television set.  The way we communicate with phones has vastly changed as well.  We don’t just call people to share information.  We can send them a photo of what we’re doing or send them a text message.  The ability to have a verbal conversation over the cell phone is almost one of the least attractive features of phones.  Rather, it’s the ability to connect with social media, the Internet, and send short messages that really intrigues us.

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by Priit Kallas.

Twitter is one of the fastest-growing online social media sites. It is one of the top communication methods there currently is, with more people and businesses joining the network every day.100 million accounts created in 2010 and 25 billion Tweets sent. Signing up for a Twitter account means getting in touch with a potential 255 million users (March 2011). Most of the big names have an account it has become an essential tool for online marketing and business communication.

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by Margie Clayman.

When Twitter first came out, one of the first things people were saying about it was that it was going to change how people did business. It was going to personalize client-customer relationships. It was going to humanize brands. Remember all that stuff?

Here’s the funny thing about Twitter and how it has evolved. A lot of the people who joined up so that they could do business somehow forgot along the way that they were using Twitter for business. They started to move over into the land of “How many followers can I get” and “What’s my Klout score?” Unless you are social media consultant (and even then you’re on shaky ground), these numbers do not necessarily prove that you are great at your actual paying job. If you are a plumber, people aren’t gonna really care that your company has 5,000 followers. They want to know if you can get their sinks to stop making that drip sound.

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by Jordan Kasteler.

Search Engine Land’s Jordan Kasteler wrote on Tuesday that making content easy to share over the web is critical to it becoming viral.

Whether it’s an article written as part of a content marketing campaign or a video, Kasteler believes removing as many steps as possible required to share a link will improve the chances of it becoming viral.

Even for those that don’t necessarily reach enough people to receive the viral distinction, sharing widgets that allow for easy posting to social media websites and content aggregators are generally a good idea.

Beyond social media widgets, making the piece easy to email with a button will help maximize its visibility.

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by Jeff Haden.

I like statistics as much as the next guy (which means not very much) but I don’t need statistics to tell me Twitter is a popular small business tool: My plumber has a Twitter account.

(No, I haven’t checked out his tweets. I found out because his Twitter handle is on his business card… and his invoices, and his envelopes, and the side of his truck.)

Feel like you’re getting left behind? No problem. Here’s a simple guide to getting started with Twitter for business purposes:

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by Neil Brown.

Though Twitter doesn’t get as much recognition as Facebook, it is still a powerful social networking site that has many benefits for business use. It’s a great place to connect with peers and thought leaders in your particular industry who can be a valuable resource to you. And, of course, it’s a great place to connect with customers and prospects as well.

Let’s take a look at eight best practices for using Twitter for business:

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from How to do Something.

Twitter, a microblogging website that allows members to post 140-character messages called Tweets, was released in 2006. As of September 2010, the site had 175 million registered members with 95 million tweets written each day, according to Twitter. Businesses have taken to twitter because it provides easy access to potential and existing customers at no cost. Many business twitters exist as a form of advertising, public relations or both.

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from Social.Motive.

I’m a self-proclaimed MSN nut. It’s the first website I look at every morning, and it’s likely one of the last ones I see at night. Throw in my multiple visits throughout the day and you have some idea of how much I need it. The content is refreshed every few hours and it just has a way of  being able to read my mind, of knowing what I care about.

So when I saw an article entitled Seven Things Women Do On Facebook That Guys Hate I was more than a little intrigued. That got me thinking. I get questions all the time from people who want to know the difference between this network or that. They always want me to choose sides and I never can. I tell them that both networks are great for different things and very different audiences.

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by August Drilling.

When using social media to market your brand or business, your goal should not be to gather as many fans and followers as possible. Rather, your goal should be to create a trust-filled relationship through listening and conversing. Before creating a social network account, make sure to establish what you need to know before entering the social media world. The following ten tips will help you start an effective conversation using social media.

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