Today LinkedIn launched a new news aggregation and curation service called LinkedIn Today. Many other websites automatically curate news based on what your friends have liked, shared or voted such as Reddit, Digg, Facebook and tons more. So the story here is not the technology, but the fact that this type of service is now available on LinkedIn, making it extremely relevant for B2B marketers. What does the launch of LinkedIn Today mean for marketers? LinkedIn today is yet another service that gives inbound marketers an advantage. MORE >>

I get a few blank stares at times when I talk about social media technologies with friends and colleagues but I’m starting to win people over day by day. Today, I want to share these stories with you to help you better understand the power of social media and to hopefully inspire you to continue on your social media efforts or to jump in for the first time. LinkedIn: Starting an Alumni Group When Linkedin started a groups feature (like Facebook groups) I thought about how I could network with former colleagues. social networks Chad H. MORE >>

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. In the last post we covered Social Media Listening for B2B Marketing and while providing outstanding customer support is always a good choice when it comes to building a business case that will stand up in the boardroom, another very fertile area to consider is creating a stream of leads from all those conversations out there. Then all you have to do is feed this list into your listening platform and you should be able to create a steady stream of Social Media Leads! MORE >>

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Cool Social Media Tools. Social and Alternative Search Engines. MORE >>

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. And for sure you need to be an extrovert if you plan on becoming a proclaimed social media expert or guru. But I never thought of myself as an Extrovert, even though I know the test is very consistent (yes I have taken it before and gotten the same score – even before Social Media existed). MORE >>