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Kansas City International Airport Combines Midwestern Hospitality & Social Media
This is a guest post from Justin Meyer, Social Media Manager for Kansas City International Airport. As a result of fifteen years in the air
travel industry, Justin Meyer feels more at home in an economy class middle seat than behind his desk at Kansas City International Airport. Justin has been recruiting airlines to Kansas City since 2006 and jumpstarted the airport’s social efforts in 2009. Twitter: @KCJetSetter or @KCIairport.
What Did You Mean by Clicking “Like”? Judge Rules Facebook “Like” Button Isn’t Protected Speech
Facebook is all over the headlines this month, but in the shadows of the social network’s IPO, there was a darker story: A federal judge has determined that clicking Facebook’s Like button does not constitute protected speech. 
“It is the Court’s conclusion that merely ‘liking’ a Facebook page is insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection,” writes Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
June Professional Member-Only Webinar Featuring Becky Carroll
Earlier this month we introduced our Professional members-only monthly webinars which will be featuring Professional members of the Social Media Club community.
Our goal for these members-only webinars is to provide excellent content and extend visibility to Professionals in our community that have advanced knowledge to share.
Join us on Thursday, June 7th at 2pm EST for "Using Social Media to Generate More Opportunities from Existing Customers" with Becky Carroll.
The New Black in Social Media?
A growing tendency right now, that I've seen several times is to reduce your personal networks and pull it down to around 100-200 people, a clear social trend which goes back to the small 1800 century villages that rarely contained more than 150 people and where all knew everyone, and perhaps even a relative to one another. 
The Wonderful World of API's
Did you know that API stands for Application Programming Interface? You hear that acronym thrown around all the time these days, but what does it stand for? Why should you care? And most important, how do they impact your business? These questions and more were discussed during the Social Media Club of San Francisco’s panel discussion at @Mashery HQ in San Francisco, Tuesday the 15th of May.
E-Commerce Tools for Small Businesses
Starting your own small business is much easier these days. There are a myriad of tools that allow a small business owner to attract new customers. The Internet allows a business to attract and help your prospects and customers each step of the way, in ways that are easy for you as the small business owner. Using these new tools will help your company grow its revenues and perhaps even eclipse your offline sales.
Open A Merchant Credit Account
Are you missing your easiest advertising opportunity?
Your email signature is an incredible way to tell people about what you’re promoting — without being too promotional. It’s an unobtrusive way to feature a message that is specifically targeted at people that you’re already communicating with.
Add up how many emails you send each day. Think about how many emails your entire team sends. And then realize that those emails are all going to active, interested readers who already have a relationship with you.
Every time we do a conference, everyone in the company puts an event promo in their emails. We hit almost 1,000 people every day this way.
My current signature is too long, but I wanted to let everyone know about the new book. I was also frustrated with the number of people who don’t know what I do for a living, so I explained it:
Cobertura: World Innovation Forum 2012 por WOBI
Esta vez desde León, Guanajuato, World of Business Ideas (@WOBI_es) realiza el World Innovation Forum 2012, evento que reune a las mentes más representativas de la creatividad y la innovación y que están imaginando y proyectando los nuevos negocios y modelos de crecimiento económico.
Venue
The Bottom End
Upper level – 579 Little Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Topic – Facebook
Facebook Melbourne employees will be speaking about Facebook changes and its hacking culture, Facebook best practice, case studies, and measuring success.
For regular SMCMelb attendees we’ve changed venues to make for a better event overall.
Event format
Surviving the Google Penguin Update
Google’s April 24th update – codenamed Penguin – seems to have had some seriously adverse impact on many sites. Google has said time and time again, that SEO can be very constructive and positive. They have pointed out that effective SEO can make a website more accessible and crawlable. Basic SEO includes techniques such as [...]
Maui Private Charters
When it comes to entertaining large groups, Luaus seem to be the most popular activity, but there are more options. Chartering Maui private boat tours can allow you the freedom of taking a large group on a relaxing voyage or adventurous excursion on your own terms. Go to Molokini Crater for some great snorkeling, take [...]
Aronia in America
Aronia in America blog is about growing Aronia melanocarpa and its cultivars in home landscapes and gardens, as well as in commercial aronia berry plantations. Topics include personal experiences and research based information, in addition to stories about antioxidant content and health benefits of the fruit, insect and disease pests, critter control, native range, habitat, soil preferences, cultural practices, environmental benefits, economic benefits, potential for growth of the commercial aronia berry industry in North America.
Aronia berries have the highest antioxidant content of any of the commonly grown small fruit. As an added bonus, these beautiful shrubs are loaded with fragrant white flowers, dark green leaves all summer long, and bright red-orange fall foliage color.
Top Internet strategy, marketing and technology links for the week of May 19, 2012
Here are the top Internet strategy, marketing and technology links for the week of May 19, 2012…
Facebook MBA: Behind the IPO Everyone’s Talking About
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Read my tips in the Sunday Des Moines Register's Business Section to create a better coupon deal!
Here's the link to the article from my Blog - www.iowacouponing.com!
May 23 Speaker Spotlight: Miry Whitehill, Account Director of Jun Group
Evan White of Viddy Interview – Future of Publishing
Getting your videos online used to mean plugging your phone into your computer and dragging them out of your DCIM folder. This made publishing them right after they were show difficult at best which made instant video distribution for news troublesome. In this Future of Publishing, Murray Newlands interviews Viddy CMO Evan White about how Viddy is revolutionizing the publishing industry.
Future of Publishing is sponsored by VigLink. If you enjoyed the show, be sure check Future of Publishing out online at FutureOfPublishing.tv!
May Event – Agile Marketing: Adapting and optimizing in today’s break-neck brand world
Douglas E Mitchell - Review of the Blue Yeti Microphone
In a word, the Blue Yeti condenser mic can be summed as “wow”. The quality is excellent and once I got used to using a non-mixer USB mic I was hooked. You’ll need to use your recording software to adjust your equalization (base/mid/treble) etc. to achieve the desired sound quality vs. the knobs on your mixer.
I would describe the sound as a little more “tinny and hollow” than say an RE20 but again, with software adjustments, I could achieve the richness I desire. I had enough trouble with “popping” that I harvested the foam cover from my Behringer B1 and that helped tremendously.
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