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Social Media is Simpler Than You Think

Webbiquity

It provides a rich new toolset and set of techniques for carrying out these processes, but the processes themselves are familiar: listening , networking , interacting , information sharing , and promoting. In this respect, companies need to handle direct promotion carefully. Particularly in the b2b world, indirect promotion works best.

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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. Not marketed or promoted, just described accurately and objectively, with due consideration given to links to thought leadership content they’ve contributed to their industry. Share this on Bebo.

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

Webbiquity

Its monitoring covers blogs, message boards, forums, microblogging sites, wikis, media sharing sites, social networks, online classifieds and review sites. The fee-based version of SM2 does everything the freemium version does plus providing unlimited searches and results, filters, boolean search strings and alerts. Share this on Bebo.

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

WebMarketCentral

Discussion Forums These are a place to showcase your expertise in a non-promotional way. You can find some great posts on capitalizing on social bookmarking sites on Social Media Today , and no one has written more great stuff about using Digg to drive traffic than Chris Lang.

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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

WebMarketCentral

Indeed, it is currently the reigning champ for promoting many types of Websites. People on your Twitter friends list will see each of your posts (aka "tweets"), which can be used to promote new ideas and features for your business. Tip: Don't promote your site with every tweet, lest you become labeled a spammer.

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

WebMarketCentral

Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc., Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Digg 243 33,433,760 +51.2 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 8 Plaxo 1,440 2,629,043 +144.7% 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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Content Curation in B2B Marketing

Online Marketing Institute

It’s already happened in the consumer world: Sites like Digg (social curation) which have little or no original content have become key resources for information. You will be navigating your prospects through this sea of content by leading them to the most relevant important information.