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It’s pretty rare for business objectives to not have anything to do with socialness. I mean, influencing other humans seems to be a pretty big part of human interaction. These articles are about tools and techniques involving online social behavior influencing stuff.

New Thoughtfaucet homepage: 30% discount?!?

The Thoughtfaucet home page looks funny? Have you been hacked?
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The difference between social media and collaboration

Image by Trypode via Flickr We’ve been reading and creating a lot of chatter about “social media” for the past few years. And for the past year it’s been incessant non-stop cacophony about Twitter and Facebook and gurus and is-blogging-relevant-anymore and Foursquare and so on. Non-stop. In all that chatter it’s been easy to miss the point [...]
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Adding the Facebook “Like” button to your Wordpress site.

How do I install the Facebook Like button on Wordpress?
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Follow Friday: Sarah Faye Cohen

Librarians have been solving information-related problems since 300 B.C. Perhaps it's time to follow one.
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Gahlord Dewald speaking at BuzzRE Orange County

Gahlord Dewald heads to the OC for a few days.
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Organizational Readiness in Social Media: 4 Core Tasks

What four things result in 80% of an organization's success in social media?
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Observing Satisfaction on Twitter

Image by gahlord via Flickr For those of you who have reviewed my slide presentation on using web analytics with social media, you’ll notice that I have a minor addition to the usual Reach-Acquisition-Conversion consumer behavior model. That addition is Satisfaction. With social media, the customer’s ability to express satisfaction is significantly increased and also removed [...]
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Follow Friday: Karthik S

Other countries have the same challenges in social media as we do in the US. Looking for insightful examples and case studies from another perspective? Here's someone you should follow.
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Presenting at #RETSO: Getting started getting better: Using analytics for improving your social media

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I’ll be presenting on social media and analytics at RETechSouth this week in Atlanta, GA. My presentation will be about how you can use analytics to improve your use of social media. Who might like this presentation: Anyone who wants to get started in social media but will have someone yammering [...]
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Social Media Summit 2010 by HomeQuest: Gahlord Dewald to be featured speaker

Gahlord Dewald, president/janitor of Thoughtfaucet, will be a featured speaker at the HomeQuest Social Media Summit 2010. He’s very honored to be on a program with leading real estate tech/marketing/social luminaries such as Dustin Luther of Spinnio and 4Realz, Zillow’s Director of Community Relations David Gibbons and HomeQuest founder Garron Selliken. The HomeQuest Social Media [...]
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