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Social Media can help elect a U.S. President, transform the way we educate ourselves and drum up support for disaster relief. What lies beneath the two ominous buzzwords is not some secret game-changing technology but rather a new approach at forming relationships with your audience in real-time. Discover the power of online influence many already rely on.

Social Media for WordPress: A Quicker Way to Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site is a practical how-to guide on implementing social media marketing techniques to improve user retention and initiate engaging conversations. You’ll learn how to leverage third-party services like Twitter, Yahoo! Pipes and Google Analytics as well as popular WordPress extensions like FeedWordPress, bbPress and BuddyPress.

This book introduces you to the powerful combination of WordPress and social media through a variety of plugins and free third-party services.

You’ll learn how to create your own social network, utilize forums and rewards to stimulate interest. You’ll also learn how to automate many marketing activities, so you can spend more time connecting with your audience.

Comprised of easy-to-follow tutorials and supplemental website, you’ll understand how to implement social media strategies.

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Game jams are fun. They are a creative, exciting, social experience. The goal of a game jam is to design a video game, either alone or in teams, as fast as is humanly possible; usually in a single weekend.

The Game Jam Survival Guide, written to help you have more fun and achieve greater results at your next game jam by building a successful game without burning out, leads readers through each 12-hour phase of a 48-hour weekend game jam.

Weekend warriors: dominate your next game jam! If you follow the system shared in this book, you will be able to build an amazing game that you’re proud of and will entertain players, all in just one crazy 48-hour game jam weekend … and survive to tell the tale!

Embrace the best practices and techniques of past game jam winners and avoid common pitfalls along the way to the finish line. You too can survive a 48-hour game development marathon with your mind intact and an amazing game to show off to friends and family!

With The Game Jam Survival Guide you will learn the secret techniques that master game jammers use to create winning entries. It starts by showing you great ways to brainstorm and design a game based on a theme. It then moves on to highlight the best tools and techniques to finish a game in a weekend of coding. Anecdotes and advice from past winners and losers combined with humorous words of encouragement are sure to help you on your way. The author presents a list of game jams around the world Download Now »

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Facebook started out as a social network for high school and college kids. But now grown-ups like you are getting connected, too — even if you use Facebook much differently than your kids do. If you’re a grown-up looking to join the Facebook bandwagon, Facebook for Grown-Ups is just the guide you need. You’ll learn how to use Facebook to reconnect with  old friends and family members and keep them up-to-date on what’s happening in your life.

Facebook for Grown-Ups shows you how to open a Facebook account, find new friends, post status updates, and share family photos and videos. You’ll learn how to become a fan of your favorite performers, join a business network, and create your own topic-specific groups. And if you’re worried about privacy, Facebook for Grown-Ups shows you how to keep your personal information from becoming public knowledge. You’ll even learn how to keep track of what your kids are doing on Facebook — without them knowing it.

This revised and updated edition shows you how to best use Facebook’s new Timeline profile page. You’ll learn how to customize your Timeline, edit and highlight events, and add your own personal cover image.

Table of Contents
Part I: Getting Started with Facebook
Chapter 1. Welcome to Facebook—It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore
Chapter 2. Signing Up and Getting Started Download Now »

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The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide to Facebook Marketing—100% Updated for Facebook’s Newest Features & Best Practices

Your best customers and prospects are on Facebook: more than 800,000,000 of them. Your business needs to be there, too: not just with a generic “page,” but with a smart, low-cost marketing program that works. Facebook Marketing, Third Edition will help you plan that program, execute it, measure it, and optimize it. Two world-class social media marketers show you how to make the most of Facebook’s most valuable new business features—including Facebook Messages, Deals, Places, Credits, Connect, mobile apps, and much more. This completely revamped new edition offers dozens of new tips and best practices for everything from advertising and analytics to promotion and privacy. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, marketer, or PR pro, it will help you find and profit from your customers where they are right now: on Facebook!

You’ll Learn How To:

• Get started fast with Facebook, even if you’re new to it
• Develop winning Facebook marketing strategies
• Master new best practices for creating “best in class” Facebook pages
• Design Facebook ads that drive more clickthroughs at lower cost
• Reach customers outside Facebook with Facebook Connect and social plugins
• Use images and other media to personalize your presence and engage visitors Download Now »

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The Complete Business Guide to Google+, Today’s Hottest New Social Network!

Every week, millions more people sign up for Google+: Suddenly, it’s today’s hottest new social network. Google+ for Business reveals why Google+ offers business opportunities available nowhere else–and helps you grab those opportunities now, before your competitors do. Top social media professional speaker and business advisor Chris Brogan shows how to get great results fast, without wasting time–and without wasting a dime. Brogan guides you through using Google+ for promotion, customer service, community building, referrals, collaboration, and a whole lot more. You won’t just master innovative new tools like Circles and Hangouts: You’ll use them to generate more customers and more cash!

• Make the right first moves after you’ve signed up for Google+
• Take advantage of links between Google+ and Google search
• Define the best Google+ strategy and tactics for your business
• Create a business page that attracts new paying customers
• Integrate Google+ into your current online/digital strategies
• Learn how your customers are using Google+–and give them what they’re looking for
• Use Circles to organize your contacts and interactions more effectively
• Create Google+ posts that draw attention and spark conversations Download Now »

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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Windows Phone 7 photos so that you can see exactly what to do

Help when you run into Windows Phone 7 problems or limitations

Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Windows Phone 7 device

Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Windows Phone 7 working just the way you want. Learn how to:

• Get started fast! Covers Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release.
• Master Windows Phone 7’s elegant interface and powerful shortcuts
• Quickly set up ringtones, voicemail, Airplane Mode, wallpaper, accessibility, and more
• Connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices
• Get and send messages easily via Outlook, Windows Live, and Google accounts
• Find almost anything with content search, contact search, and Bing web search
• Work seamlessly with OneNote, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and SharePoint documents
• Use Zune and Marketplace to import media content and download applications
• Discover your phone’s built-in apps, and easily pin them to your Start screen
• Store content in the cloud, with Microsoft SkyDrive
• Reach your destination faster with Maps, GPS, and turn-by-turn voice directions
• Use Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn social networking via the People Hub Download Now »