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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). Best damn marketing tool by an order of magnitude. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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There are the new tools like Tumblr and Posterous. They’re more light weight, easier to use and more social. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Blogger kinda sucks IMHO.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. Although social media news sites can be effective market validation tools, they are not without their downsides. For us, the audience was perfect. to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo. Hacker Downside.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. This trend of social pervasiveness will continue.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch. Thank you eMinutes.