Social Media - Best of the Blogs
If youre seeking candidates in the
social media industry, many of them are within arms reach, feel free to leave a link to a job description (but not the whole job description, or Ill delete ...
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Blogged by kenekaplan on 17-Feb-08
[SEO and
social media marketing TopRank team member Jeff Nolan has stepped up to the plate, or in this case, onto the green and submitted the following post about
marketing within
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Blogged by Lee Odden on 22-Jan-08
While it's true that large companies often drop hundreds of thousands or even millions on complex viral
marketing campaigns, there are many companies that succeed on pocket change. Learning how ...
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Blogged by Jennifer Laycock on 22-Jan-08
Heres where Im going with this: marketers trying to come into
social media and rapidly become versed in the tools and believe what theyre doing is
social media, are probably doomed to ...
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Blogged by John Whiteside on 20-Dec-07
Social media marketing and what it entails in terms of proactive tasks and activities you need to add to your existing independent publisher workflow is the focus of this video interview with S ...
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Blogged by Robin Good on 20-Dec-07
Stick It To The Man week marches on, showing those big wigs at the Blog Council that real people use
social media everyday. Sometimes its good for those of us in PR and Marketing to step ba ...
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Blogged by Chris Lynn on 13-Dec-07
While so many focus on the marketing ...
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Blogged by Nathan Gilliatt on 13-Dec-07
I have started collecting my thoughts about new and
social media marketing over at my Gary Cohen blog; however, in the meanwhile I would like to share my take on the power and effectiveness of ...
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Blogged by Gary Cohen on 13-Dec-07
Sadly, because of corporate rules they can't add them to YouTube which would bring them more viewers and more recognition, and make it easier for me to embed the video of my recent segment on
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Blogged by Rich Brooks on 12-Dec-07
The Corvallis, Ore., company has developed a
social recommender engine designed to provide personalized recommendations of music products and services through PCs, mobile phones and other Inter ...
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Blogged by Tech Confidential on 07-Dec-07
More to the point,
social networks apply the wisdom of crowds to our news filters. This brings the judgement of many people to search relevance, emphasizing the judgement of those you trust mor ...
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Blogged by unknown on 07-Dec-07
Typically, Im not a fan of niche
social networks. Im generally against the need for me to have Yet Another Username to keep track of, and nine times of ten, the niche
social network o ...
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Blogged by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on 07-Dec-07
(more on that in the next few days).
Shoemoney Final Thoughts: Really the Pickup
artist is mostly lessons in psychology and self worth. I can see why people who go and do Mysterys cours ...
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Blogged by ShoeMoney on 25-Nov-07
So, why doesnt Apple embrace
social media? Its simple: Apples customers embrace
social media on behalf of the company. Need proof? Write a negative blog post about Apple and see how ...
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Blogged by Andy Beal on 16-Nov-07
... and acting as a community hub but also inviting them to complete a regular external audit of our direction of travel which we are accountable to respond to, like the one carried out by th ...
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Blogged by blowing bubbles - everyday social democracy on 16-Nov-07
Charitable organizations are outpacing the business world in their use of
social media. Seventy-five percent of the charitable organizations studied are using some form of
social media ...
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Blogged by unknown on 15-Nov-07
Now, before I explain the course of events Id like to explain that my rationale for this article was not to plug Ignite, but rather to shed some light on what a
social media agency is, how it ...
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Blogged by Lisa McNeill on 13-Nov-07
A big part of my
social media platform for our enterprise clients is dont do it because of peer pressure, or because its cool do it because it yields the business results youre looking ...
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Blogged by Joel on 13-Nov-07
Mefeedia (the open
social media platform ) Miro ( the open player and Joost killer) is the most open platform in town. MediaRSS in / MediaRSS out - mash it up, mix it up, play it, watch it ...
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Blogged by Frank on 13-Nov-07
Facebook might not be more popular than sex, but it's getting there -- at least as a rival to sex as something people search on. Below, a look at
Facebook's new entry into a top search t ...
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Blogged by Danny Sullivan on 09-Nov-07
By now, I hope I've made it clear with posts like this that I love
Facebook. And I even like Myspace. Even though I work for MyChurch.org, I hope believers don't abandon these other popular soc ...
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Blogged by Joe Suh on 09-Nov-07
However, one of my friends is trying to learn how to use
StumbleUpon in order to help promote his humor blog, so I set out to gather some resources to help him out. I figured Id share them wit ...
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Blogged by Aaronontheweb on 08-Nov-07
If you follow either of the latter patterns, it means you wont buy clicking through the friends recommendation at
Facebook, you will simply note it and use it as the basis of a search on
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Blogged by smoothspan on 08-Nov-07
Open Social is Google's response to Facebook's success (and Microsoft's investment in Facebook). Google is the only company that has the financial strength and market position to really take on ...
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Blogged by unknown on 08-Nov-07
... in a
social network, what are the key features you use or would like in a
social network? If you aren't active is it beacuse of features that are missing? best practices, desi ...
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Blogged by Jeffrey Eisenberg on 06-Nov-07
Suppose, however, that you could leave the island compound of a
social networking site and take your network of friends, and friends of friends, anywhere on the Web? This is what makes Google's ...
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Blogged by JD Lasica on 04-Nov-07
I listened last night to the entire hour of Marc Canter and Robert Scoble talking about Open
Social and the
social media starfish. I have been listening to Robert incubate this idea sinc ...
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Blogged by Francine Hardaway on 03-Nov-07
In other
social media news, Jeremiah Owyang explains Open
Social for your executives. Jeremiah is really becoming the leading expert on
social media. I saw him at the Nokia event ...
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Blogged by Robert Scoble on 02-Nov-07
Social media challenges our assumptions about news, publicity, distribution, and the time it takes to be digested or, more appropriately, consumed. It is particularly ironic that in an age when ...
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Blogged by Dan Greenfield on 29-Oct-07
A study by a
social network software and service vendor suggests a big surge in
social media spending by business is on its way. Also some very interesting numbers about how they're meas ...
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Blogged by unknown on 27-Oct-07
οΎ I just really worry for those
new to the field when they are bombarded with soooooo much stuff about
social media that they will believe that that's what it's all about these days. I h ...
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Blogged by Jill on 27-Oct-07
Jeremy Pepper has a terrific post about how PR may lose the
social media battle to advertising because of the latters ability to bring sexy back. This is a MUST read for all of you. Much of t ...
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Blogged by Kyle on 26-Oct-07
However, the new
social media landscape has given rise to an interesting phenomenon. As advertisers and agencies rely ever increasingly on individuals to pass along their marketing message, th ...
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Blogged by Joe Marchese on 24-Oct-07
Facebook has obviously got a lot of attention .. and with the apps& what has been lost is the news feed or the mini feed & this shared activity stream. That is the real innovation in
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Blogged by Stuart on 24-Oct-07
We already advise publishers and brand companies, when they develop a
social media/
social networking strategy, to come up with Facebook applications that support the overall strategy. (T ...
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Blogged by steve outing on 19-Oct-07
Olthuis asked the audience of search marketers assembled at Tuesdays Search Marketing Expo. Thats huge. Congrats goes to the others who were also included: Chris Winfield, Brent Csutoras, N ...
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Blogged by Cameron on 18-Oct-07
Another piece from Google's
social project has been released: Google Maps becomes
social with the addition of user profiles. Until now, users could create personalized maps and write rev ...
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Blogged by Ionut Alex Chitu on 17-Oct-07
The deal to be announced tomorrow at the Web 2.0 Summit, for integration between MySpace IM and Skype, suggests that what I've been arguing for some time is coming true: the convergence of
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Blogged by Tim O'Reilly on 17-Oct-07
The second session at SMX
Social Media is all about links. Kim is once again live blogging for Search Engine Roundtable, and Eric's back for Search Engine Journal, so I've got to step up my gam ...
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Blogged by Vanessa Fox on 16-Oct-07
Tuesday, October 15, 2007 SMX
Social Media, NYC 9:00am-10:20am Customers interacting with brands -- thats marketing in the 21st century. And SMM is key to fostering brand/customer conversation ...
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Blogged by barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) on 16-Oct-07
In this article I want to talk about how this applies to creating content for
social media marketing, namely linkbait. You see, users from
social news sites have very short attention spa ...
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Blogged by Cameron Olthuis on 16-Oct-07
Tamar Weinberg, Search Marketing Strategist,
Rusty Brick, Inc. was up next. Advice for Winning Content Lists, games/quizzes, controversy, tools, breaking news, videos, pictures, Digpicz.com), a ...
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Blogged by Marty Weintraub on 16-Oct-07
Jeremiah Owyang points out that Twitter is good for
media companies,
social media savvy brands, those who may already have a blogging strategy, those with frequent updates. Bonus link - ...
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Blogged by BL Ochman on 15-Oct-07
Flickr is by far the most popular image sharing site on the web and has evolved into a complete
social network with friends, testimonials, profiles etc. Theyve done an excellent job keeping t ...
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Blogged by Solomon Rothman on 15-Oct-07
This week I visited Tucson to give my presentation on
social media to the Tucson chapter of the American Marketing Association. The chapter has about one hundred members and a very active boar ...
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Blogged by John Cass on 13-Oct-07
The Where I've Been map lets you show all your friends where you've been all over the world. You can also show them where you've lived and places you'd like to visit someday. ...
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Blogged by Linda Roeder on 11-Oct-07
Another great example of a
social media news release (web-optimized news release or online electronic press kit&pick the term you like), this time for the 2008 Focus from Ford Motor Company via ...
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Blogged by Dave on 11-Oct-07
Many of the
social media aficionados have drunken their own Kool-Aid, making absurd claims about Facebook. Its been referred to as a
social operating system, a Google-killer, and so on ...
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Blogged by Aaronontheweb on 11-Oct-07
A few weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation titled "We Media: How Audiences Are Changing The Future of News and Information" (PDF) at the Fall Meeting of the Association of Information and Dissemin ...
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Blogged by Hypergene MediaBlog on 11-Oct-07
TechPresident reports on Improvements to
Facebook Groups, including the coming lift of the capping of emails to 1000 group members. ...
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Blogged by JD Lasica on 10-Oct-07
As a rule, a $50K budget can cover the creation of a simple multi-
media micro-site which becomes the center of an online community; perhaps some widgets to help distribute the content, and the ...
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Blogged by BL Ochman on 10-Oct-07
I started off simply defining
social media, because most of them hadnt heard the term before. I told them it was a means to carry on a conversation that built a community. I was going to use a ...
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Blogged by Francine Hardaway on 10-Oct-07
Last week I spoke with two vendorsFAST and Inkritiwhich both offer the ability to collect and analyze customer data from
social media to either enhance products and services or create and sen ...
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Blogged by Mila D'Antonio on 10-Oct-07
VentureBeats Matt Marshall moderated a panel at the Graphing
Social Patterns conference yesterday, where the topic of
Myspaces platform was discussed (transcript via Christina Wodtke): ...
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Blogged by Eric Eldon on 10-Oct-07
I was talking with a Google employee last night at the Graphing
Social Media conference. Aside: why are there more Google employees there than Facebook ones? I think Facebooks attitude toward ...
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Blogged by Robert Scoble on 09-Oct-07
This article will give you hints on how to develop your own strategy for targeting, connecting with and piggybacking off the influence of popular
social media users. Take what is here and throw ...
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Blogged by Maki on 09-Oct-07
Developed by search engine industry legend Danny Sullivan and
social media guru Neil Patel, the agenda for this event mixes strategic direction with plenty of practical advice sessions ranging ...
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Blogged by Lee Odden on 09-Oct-07
Here are some ideas specific to your use of
social media as part of your personal branding strategy. Stick With One Name. If youre one name on your blog and another name on Twitter, and forced ...
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Blogged by chrisbrogan on 09-Oct-07
Social media is definitely one of the more fun aspects of SEO and Internet marketing, so I'm really looking forward to this entirely
social media-focused conference. The sessions should ...
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Blogged by rebecca on 09-Oct-07
In a recent post about paid links, Danny Sullivan wrote about how Google's army of engineers are going to start hand editing PageRank scores if they think you are selling links, which is a move that w ...
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Blogged by Aaron Wall on 08-Oct-07
And while I cant claim to know what that
social network will look like, I look to Google Earth effort to bring avatars akin to
Second Life and companies who are bringing in real-world e ...
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Blogged by Dustin on 08-Oct-07
I enjoy the social narrative and on a separate level love to see my professional network updates on
LinkedIn, which in my opinion heralded the coming of the mini-feed, which many faithful ...
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Blogged by Mario Sundar on 07-Oct-07
30 Largest
Social Bookmarking Sites | Updated 8/14/2007 | 18 |
dzone.com 1065009 - Inbound Links | 100784 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 117897 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5187 - Alexa ...
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Blogged by Lorelei on 04-Oct-07
Thoof vs. Digg I previously mentioned the new news site
Thoof, and I know several folks checked it out. So I just had to share these new videos done in the Apple vs. PC style, but this t ...
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Blogged by John P. on 30-Sep-07
Chris Brogan is a
social media expert specializing in building communities using digital tools. He is co-founder of PodCamp, a free unconference exploring the use of
social media like po ...
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Blogged by GuyKawasaki on 27-Sep-07
Are you just curious about how Digg, the most popular of
social media sites, works? Did some content of yours make it to the front page, but you dont know why it did or why other content of yo ...
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Blogged by John P. on 20-Sep-07
My good friends over at 97th Floor have released a new Firefox extension called Social Media for Firefox. The tool is designed to help you build up a power account (or maintain a current one) by savin ...
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Blogged by Cameron on 14-Sep-07
Warning against deploying linkbaits without following up with other forms of link marketing if your intent is to rank well in the search results. ...
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Blogged by Aaron Wall on 10-Sep-07
Having founded the biggest human-powered search site on the web (600000 pages) and more recently running a content startup with substantial
SEO distribution I have a few comments and suggestion ...
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Blogged by unknown on 20-Aug-07
A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year:
Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.
facebook.com. Like the Netvibes ...
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Blogged by Michael Arrington on 15-Aug-07
StumbleUpon is a hot social discovery site that continues to rapidly increase in popularity. With the increase in popularity comes an increase in the potential traffic that it can drive to your sites. ...
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Blogged by Cameron Olthuis on 24-Jul-07
Boomj has all of the features that you expect from a normal Web 2.0 Social Networking site, the features included are blogs, video, friends, relationships then a lot of commercial stuff which i ...
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Blogged by Ehsan on 22-Jul-07
Google is the web's largest and most valuable
social network. What differentiates Google from other
social networks is that they put information at the center of it, yielding a higher si ...
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Blogged by Aaron Wall on 22-Jun-07