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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). Post on Google Buzz. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.).

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

It lets marketers or sales people specify companies and individuals to monitor, and then scans media including social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook), public forums (blogs, wikis, Diggs, Twitter), paid sources (D&B, Zoom, Jigsaw,) and Web pages for information about those entities.

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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. Post on Google Buzz. 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. Share this on Mixx.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity

A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. Its monitoring covers blogs, message boards, forums, microblogging sites, wikis, media sharing sites, social networks, online classifieds and review sites. Post on Google Buzz.

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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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10 Clever Website Error Messages From Creative Companies

Hubspot

Digg is a social news website that gathers news from across the Internet and compiles it on one website for readers. Since people depend on Digg for a lot of their news, they use this funny message whenever they are down. Google Wave. Remember Google Wave? Chillax brah, you got Google+ now. Source: TechWorld.

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Social Media is Simpler Than You Think

Webbiquity

Tools for social media monitoring (listening) range from free ( Google Alerts , SM2 Freemium ) to low-cost ( uberVU ) to sophisticated ( Vocus , Cision ). But expressing your opinion on Yelp , epinions , Twitter, Facebook or any social site is easy and takes only a few minutes—and your words reach a far larger audience. Information Sharing.