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An Open Letter to Jimmy Wales

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Got your fundraising appeal for Wikipedia. Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of Wikipedia; it is a truly amazing tool and a tremendous accomplishment. The Wikipedia cabal. I understand you don’t want Wikipedia to devolve into a collection of marketing brochures. Call off the dogs. The Priesthood.

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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

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Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Hire a social media-savvy PR person to help you get interviewed by prominent bloggers and writers in your industry. Hire a social media-savvy PR person to help you get interviewed by prominent bloggers and writers in your industry.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

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She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Wikis (Wikipedia, hundreds of specific topic-focused wikis). Li addresses social media at all levels, from grand strategy to nitty gritty tactics. Rich Meyer.

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The Insidious Nofollow Tag: An SEO Rant

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According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), “The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Blog readers and bloggers were well aware of the immense problem. The nofollow tag was misguidedly inflicted upon the online world by Google in 2005. Share this on del.icio.us.

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