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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. Because niche solutions offer context and relevance unique to a particular vertical, these solutions (just like Ning is to facebook) may in fact be the better solution. What they often don’t realize is that they can safely enable these applications through the use of smart policies.

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Best Social Media and Digitial Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1

Webbiquity

companies are currently using blogs for marketing purposes, up from 29% in 2009 and just 16% in 2007. Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn) and which are declining (MySpace – there’s a shock, Friendster, Ning and Hi5) as well as sharing details about the demographics of several top social networks (e.g. 500 companies.