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How to Implement a Winning Social-Media Function in Your Organization
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Stop Selling and (Instead) Help Your Customers Buy
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Fireside Chat: Hot Tips about Digital Marketing from DMF
December 16

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A Note to Readers
from Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer

Special Fireside Chat This Week!

Join us for a free online seminar this week. I say "online seminar," but really it's more of a fireside chat, where you can listen in on the latest in digital marketing.

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Our panel of experts—which includes Jen Kane, Janet Driscoll Miller, D.J. Waldow, and Aaron Strout—will touch on the topics that'll... well, heat up your digital marketing in 2011.

We'll chat about how to avoid common email mistakes, how to find your company's "social voice," how to integrate social media into your marketing programs to increase ROI, and how to examine the current priority tactics that you can use to rank higher in search engines.

Also, you'll learn why any investments you make in a Facebook presence are likely to pay greater dividends than most other social networks.

Don't miss this seminar—especially because we're going to randomly choose one lucky attendee to get a free registration to the Digital Marketing Forum (a $1,295 value!). You must be present at the end of the live seminar to win. (See the full Digital Marketing Forum program.)

Good content and giveaways? Cool, right? See you there.

PS: Already planning on attending the Digital Marketing Forum? (Don't tell our events people, but it's my favorite event of the three in-person events we host.) Early-bird pricing ends today.

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SocialTech 2010 On Demand
available online until January 2011

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Digital Marketing Forum 2011
February 2-4, 2011

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57 Ways to Connect with Customers and Get Them to Spread Your Ideas for You
1/13/2011 with Seth Godin

Growing Your Fan Base and Engaging Effectively on Facebook
1/20/2011 with Ekaterina Walter

How to be a Social Media Strategist, Not the Social Help Desk
1/27/2011 with Jeremiah Owyang

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