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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

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.

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An Open Letter to Jimmy Wales

Webbiquity

Any editor who isn’t embarrassed by the Anvil Media – Attensa Wiki-gate fiasco should be permanently banned. Example: most people would agree that the word “leading&# rarely belongs in a company description on Wikipedia. It’s an over-used PR buzzword. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post?

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums.

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Intranet Blog :: E-mail fatigue

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Also helping overcome e-mail fatigue at leading organizations are effective policies on e-mail use and the use of social media such as wikis and blogs. If managed properly, the use of social media tools such as blogs and wikis can reduce e-mail volumes by as much as 30%. For example, MySpace grew by 609% in one year, from just under 3.5

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

WebMarketCentral

For example, in an SEO forum, telling everyone how great your agency is at SEO is suicide; but displaying your knowledge by offering expert tips on title meta tag creation or non-spammy link building is brilliant. Wikis A wiki is another place to share your knowledge of a particular topic with a community or the world.

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Chuck's Blog: Why Supporting Knowledge Workers Is Hard For IT

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Maybe some pragmatic examples? Its almost impossible and self-defeating to charge back for accessing the corporate intranet portal, or using enterprise search, or a wiki platform. blogs, wikis, IM, etc.) We can more easily share and leverage the knowledge and experiences of others. Now consider the "2.0" but not outside of IT.

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The Ultimate Glossary: 101 Social Media Marketing Terms Explained

Hubspot

An example of this is the Twitter API. Example: yourblogname.blogspot.com Blog Talk Radio - Blog Talk Radio is a free web application that allows users to host live online radio shows. Digg - Digg is a social news website that allows members to submit and vote for articles. Reddit - Reddit is similar to Digg and Newsvine.