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Should we be scared of Facebook's automatic photo tag suggestions?

June 12, 2011 by Jessica Schilling
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This week, Facebook announced a full-scale rollout of the automatic photo tagging suggestions that have been quietly available to a number of international users for months, and we ... freaked out, really. I'm hedging a bet that not one person reading these words hasn't seen a post on their Facebook news feed along the lines of "OMG FACEBOOK IS STEALING YOUR FACE NOW!!1!" [read more]

3 C’s of Social Media Marketing Automation. On Cool, Cute and Crap.

May 15, 2011 by Tim Vermeire
with 1,154 views
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As I’ve been around and active in social media for about 750 tweets now, I’ve distilled some of the do’s and don’ts of social media automation. It turned out however that it’s not that easy to define an automation aspect as “do” or “don’t”. Sometimes it can be used in a “good” way but it can easily glimpse into a “bad” one. That’s why I introduce a third class into this debate, the “consider wisely” category. [read more]

How to Automate Your Social Media Marketing Efforts

May 3, 2011 by Johannes Ahrenfelt
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So you’ve got all of your social media networking accounts set up, now what? Once the social media account creation tasks are complete, the next stage involves growth, building and interaction. To give you some assistance in determining what tools and strategies you could be implementing to build your customer base, your social media growth and your brand image, here’s a tip: automation. By automating parts of your social media campaign, you can save yourself a large amount of time and money. [read more]

Automate Your Brand?

August 21, 2010 by Daniel Schawbel
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Is there such a thing as automating anything?  Or, is human interaction necessary at every level? I posed those questions over dinner last week to Brandon Kennington and Matt Dotson , the two thought leaders who podcast, Automate My Small Business. MATT: And you know both of us have been focused on internet for most of the... [read more]

Automating Social Media?

July 22, 2010 by Jayme Soulati
with 978 views
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  The “bots” are at it in force, and their victims are the industries nascent in adoption of social media. In a social-media presentation I gave recently to a group of 20 executives who own auto repair facilities nation-wide, someone announced they were doing a three-month trial with a supplier who is going to automate social... [read more]

An Ode Against Automated Tweets

June 13, 2010 by Danny Whatmough
with 1,522 views
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If there's one thing that really annoys on Twitter, it's automated tweets. You know the ones: xx has uploaded a video on YouTube xx has checkedin on Foursquare xx has added xx film to their Lovefilm account It's lazy and annoying. I'm not saying some these updates won't be of interest to... [read more]

Automated Tweets: Good or Bad?

April 29, 2010 by Drew Hawkins
with 1,548 views
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Social media is all about conversation. In true two-way conversation, automated messages are a huge no-no. I've even ranted about automatic Twitter direct messages in a previous post. So when it comes to automated tweets it's a no-brainer right? If you're going to be a true-blue social media participant, you aren't going to sell out to... [read more]

Social Media: Automation vs. Humanization

April 5, 2010 by Josh Lysne
with 1,866 views
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Automation can make all of our lives easier, and it does play a role in social media.  HootSuite allows you to enter in tweets and set the time you want them to be sent out.  Blogging software can allow you to create blog posts for the entire week and publish them on a schedule.  Marketing Automation software allows you... [read more]

Evolutionary Design or How I Learned to Automate Innovation

December 28, 2007 by ablebrains
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As human-computer interaction becomes richer, we're asking computers to take on tasks normally reserved to those with biochemical substrates for thought.  There has been a movement under foot to see whether or  not computers can innovate... can be creative in ways similar to humans.  Its called evolutionary design. In... [read more]

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