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JUNE 22, 2009

Develop a business strategy for Facebook. Use social media sites for online reputation management. Promote your content across the different types of social networking, social bookmarking and media sharing sites. Learn how to use Twitter for business. Social Tagging.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Despite a recent dip in users, Twitter remains a hot social media platform (and arguably a better venue for b2b marketers than Facebook). Bloggers not only use Twitter to promote their content, but writing about Twitter frequently is their content. Social Tagging.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

MediaPost recently reported that Facebook is cracking down on ad networks that display misleading advertising or promote scam offers through its site. Facebook can even get a person killed. Facebook can also be used by a crime victim to track down an assailant , and it kept this teen out of jail. And then there's Google.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

If the listener has opted to share their Nabbs with their friends on Twitter or Facebook, a message would also appear there. This is an example of a radio ad that drives a mobile coupon that launches a digital ad on Nabbit.com as well as a social message on Facebook. Text Coffee to 545454 to get yours”.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

LinkedIn , Facebook and Wink ) and blogs. More than half of IT decision makers said it was extremely or very valuable to reach out to peers beyond their personal contacts when considering a technology purchase. tags: Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Similarly, a click-through from Twitter or Facebook may have been influenced by any variety of other online and offline marketing efforts, so giving 100% credit to social media for lead may be overstating the case. Social Tagging.

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JULY 23, 2009

New to the list of PPC providers this year is Facebook. While not a search engine, Facebook offers contextually targeted PPC text ads similar to Google‘s content network. The lines between display ads, search and social are blurring rapidly. Use of the tactic is only slightly less than Yahoo!‘s s content network.

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JUNE 3, 2008

show me John Smith's profiles on ZoomInfo , Facebook , LinkedIn etc. Four additional content areas, just off the top of my head, that Viewzi probably needs to incorporate rather quickly are people search (e.g. all at once); social search (what's being posted about my search topic on Digg, del.icio.us, Mixx etc.);

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JANUARY 7, 2008

del.icio.us , Digg , Furl , Backflip ), community ( MySpace , Searchles ), networking ( LinkedIn , Facebook ), etc. Two to three leaders are likely to emerge within each segment of social media, such as tagging/bookmarking (e.g., The leaders will garner high amounts of traffic appealing to a wide market.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Superpages , Facebook , Quigo (interesting), ContextWeb , LookSmart , ASK (lower CPA than Google? Everything But Google: Alternative Search Marketing Options: SES San Jose by Search Engine Journal Blogging a session on alternative search marketing outlets at the SES conference, Darrell Long provides bite-sized updates on pay-per-post (boo!),

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MARCH 10, 2009

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc., 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 8 Plaxo 1,440 2,629,043 +144.7% 7 Friendster 47 1,454,029 -20.0%

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Social Networking At the least, social networking services like LinkedIn , Facebook and Konnects provide increased exposure for your company (and your "personal brand") while also providing SEO and reputation management benefits.

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DECEMBER 18, 2007

Get connected on Facebook and LinkedIn. Used properly, social media can be powerful and cost-effective way to build awareness and credibility for your organization. ** technorati tags: social media, B2B communication, Facebook, LinkedIn, discussion forums, ITtoolbox, blogs.

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MARCH 4, 2009

These can take the form of interaction on a social sharing site like Searchles , blog comments, Twitter replies, LinkedIn messages, writing on a Facebook wall, or other means of online dialog. Social Tagging.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

Get a Facebook Strategy by Buzz Marketing for Technology Blogger and podcaster Paul Dunay explains why and how you should develop a brand-building strategy for Facebook leveraging other popular social networking tools. Among the complaints about Digg are its excessively broad audience and categories and the site's lack of transparency.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

JR: We have run a few advertising campaigns on Facebook and have had a few press releases. Currently we have been focusing our marketing attention on our new MyTopNetPix application on Facebook , which allows users to add their favorite websites (and corresponding favicons). WMC: How do you market and promote TopNetPix?

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APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? Why is online reputation management so important? How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How does social media relate to SEO? Social Tagging.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Social Tagging SEO Practice.

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JULY 30, 2009

tags: social media marketing ROI John Wanamaker last click attribution HubSpot RONI United-Airlines-breaks-guitars thought-leadership-content icerocket tags: social media marketing ROI John Wanamaker last click attribution HubSpot RONI United-Airlines-breaks-guitars thought-leadership-content Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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AUGUST 5, 2009

As the story of Georgia's blog continues, her experiences provide illustrative examples of routine, advanced and just plain cool features like: activating backlinks and trackbacks creating a blogroll adding a Twitter widget replacing a blogger profile with a Facebook badge (very cool) providing PayPal service for e-commerce selecting and building widgets (..)

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MARCH 24, 2009

In It Came from Facebook! Social Tagging Research and Reports.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

A Small Business Year-End Web Site Checklist by Search Engine Land Search marketer Matt McGee provides an outstanding 10-point checklist of items that site owners should check (at least) annually, including domain registration, contact form operation, autoresponders and outbound links.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

PeoplePond PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. SlideSix lets you upload PowerPoint, PDF or OpenOffice presentations, mix in videos from YouTube or Vimeo, and share your presentations with groups.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

referral visits to your site from Facebook, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon etc.); tags: search advertising, CTR, SEM, search-optimized press releases, social media participation icerocket tags: search advertising, CTR, SEM, search-optimized press releases, social media participation Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentralDOTcom.

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Most entertaining of all is Grehan's view of social networks: "I HATE Facebook! If one more twat invites me to Facebook I'm going round their place with an axe! Wal-Mart has a Facebook profile. Please God, take it away and let me get some work done. Go away and leave me alone. All of you. I have a job to do for crying out loud!

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

version, now incorporating elements such as LinkedIn profiles, blog links, Twitter pages, Facebook, StumbleUpon, even Second Life IDs. . #3: The Social Media Email Signature , September 18, 2008 A look at how traditional email signatures have evolved into their Web 2.0

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

While most of the sites on the list are hardly surprising (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), there are a few unexpected results, like Tagged at #6 and Yuku at #16. Top 25 Social Networks by Navel Marketing Brian Critchfield reports on the top social networks ranked by traffic. Social Tagging.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Study: Company Blogs Lead Social Media Options by MediaPost Mark Walsh reports that " blogging (is) the most important lead-generation source among social media options, followed by StumbleUpon, YouTube, Facebook, De.lic.ious and Digg " (not a surprising result, considering that those other sites tend to support a corporate blog, not replace it).

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JUNE 17, 2009

WiseStamp lets you control the look of the email signature as well as adding RSS feeds and social networking links like LinkedIn and Facebook. WiseStamp This is a slick tool that enables you to easily create a graphical HTML social media email signature for use with most common webmail services (Gmail, Yahoo mail, AOL, Hotmail etc.).

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

sites fall into one of a few increasingly well-defined categories, such as social bookmarking (Digg, del.icio.us, Searchles), social networking (LinkedIn, Facebook) or file sharing (YouTube, Flickr, podOmatic ). Most Web 2.0 Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.)

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JULY 13, 2009

A List of Social Media Marketing Examples by Being Peter Kim In this truly amazing resource, Peter Kim lists and links to examples of how more than 300 brands are using social media, from Abbott Labs on Facebook to Zappos on Twitter. Looking for ideas on how your company could expand its use of social media? Social Tagging.

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JUNE 3, 2009

The 6 Untold Reasons Why Businesses Fail by Growthink Dave Lavinsky elaborates on six common but often unrecognized causes of business failure, such as confusing ego with a business opportunity, trusting "white lie" feedback and failing to make a 100% commitment.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Twitter Tools Similar in concept to Facebook applications —but different—Twitter has spawned an industry in clever little tools. Users receive an email notification whenever a new member follows their updates; simultaneously adding dozens or more followers looks like spamming to the Twitter community."

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

MySpace and Facebook hold the top two spots) while other findings are more suprising (such as that LinkedIn is only #9, and Twitter—which I use but have never really understood the appeal of—grew more than 4,000% last year). Some of the information here is expected (e.g.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Use social networking to get high-value links by contributing content and tagging links on sites such as relevant industry blogs, YouTube , Facebook , del.icio.us , Yahoo! Buzz , Digg and Photo.net. "A A link from one of these high Pagerank sites drives a lot of traffic and is worth hundreds of links from lesser sites."

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

What’s a Retweet? Social Tagging.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

The biggest way was to use the various online affiliate networks to help us make contacts with various merchants. One with MyChurch, which is similar to Facebook but focused on Christian Faith issues. JT: This is a tricky question but a good one. We have used various ways to attract merchants.

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