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Twitter Twaddle, Part 1: What Twitter Is and Why It's Cool

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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 ). Twitter, however, stands alone. Okay, there's also Pownce , but Twitter is better.) Most Web 2.0

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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Digg 243 33,433,760 +51.2 Yes, Twitter is a micro-blogging platform and there are others, but does anyone use them? 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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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

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Later, I wrote about a couple more , and newer sites such as Twitter keep popping up. del.icio.us , Digg , Furl , Backflip ), community ( MySpace , Searchles ), networking ( LinkedIn , Facebook ), etc. Social media sites are multiplying like rabbits. A while back, I posted the Alexa rankings for 42 popular Web 2.0 social tagging sites.

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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

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Twitter – Twitter is a great way for business owners to network at their own convenience. 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. With this tool, you have 140 characters to answer the question, "What are you doing?"

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Don't They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Critical

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Start Twittering. Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Upload company-related photos—you, other executives on your team, your building, your products, screenshots (if there is any software component to your product), your logo, etc.—to to photo-sharing sites like Flickr.

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The Social Media Email Signature

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email signatures: Twitter page, LinkedIn profile and blog link: these are the most popular social networking elements, used in about half of Web 2.0 Social media email signatures can also include elements like AIM name, Digg page, Sphinn profile and Ning group. signatures. Here are a few notable examples of Web 2.0

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1

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