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    Goodness Gracious, Great Blogs of Fire!

    Author: Marinel Mones

    The ongoing fundraising for Haiti is very present in social media. Chris Baggott shares how he and his colleague Karen Jung from ExactTarget created Haiti-Aid.org in light of the earthquake. Karen once “lived and worked among the Haitians, gaining firsthand knowledge of the difficulties of simple, everyday life.” Chris says, “With her guidance, we have assembled a list of charities that need your help today!” Chris and Karen also ask for the support of the entire social media community to pass this site on and “leverage what we all do best….quickly building a network of concerned marketers supporting this incredible cause.” Please visit Chris Baggott’s Email Marketing and Best Practices for more information about the cause and don’t forget to follow @Haiti_Aid.

    Peter Shankman of Shankman.com and founder of HARO (Help A Reporter Out - a social media PR and marketing company serving reporters, entrepreneurs and small businesses) announced the “dawn of a new HARO” today. The new and improved HARO now allows “Vertical HAROs” - a chance for subscribers to select what topic queries they want to receive. Other new features include advertising via the HARO site (versus directly to Peter) and reporter emails are now masked. Visit HARO and tell us and the HARO team what you think about the new changes.

    Are you planning an event this year? Event Coup’s Samuel J. Smith lists 10 ways social media will transform events in 2010. He says, “As attendees become more comfortable with these new two-way communication experiences, they are going to start demanding similar experiences from their face-to-face events.”  Two of the ways he lists include: events will become communities that last for weeks and months rather than a few short days and attendees will want a voice in the discussion, learning and decision making process. Read the rest of the ways social media will transform events  and don’t forget to add your own input.

    Meryl K. Evans shares how to make the most of your social media time. According to Meryl, “while social media is [her] primary marketing tool, plenty of others spend more hours social networking than [she] does and for different reasons.” Meryl spends her social media time comprised of a mix of social networking at the same time every day, posting tweets throughout the day using a scheduling application, joining the right Twitter chats, reviewing Facebook updates once a day, updating her LinkedIn status a few times a week, writing at least two blog post entries per week and reading other people’s blogs. How do you spend your social media time? Share your responses at Web Worker Daily.

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