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Don’t They Know Who You Are? Why Reputation Management is Crucial

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Create accounts on social bookmarking sites like Wikio , Mixx , Digg and/or StumbleUpon. Consider writing a Wikipedia page about yourself. Keep in mind, however, that you have to be considered a public figure (or at least be able to make the argument that you should be) or the Wikipedia cabal will reject the article and take it down.

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An Open Letter to Jimmy Wales

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Got your fundraising appeal for Wikipedia. Let me start by saying I’m a huge fan of Wikipedia; it is a truly amazing tool and a tremendous accomplishment. The Wikipedia cabal. I understand you don’t want Wikipedia to devolve into a collection of marketing brochures. Call off the dogs. The Priesthood.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

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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. Rich Meyer.

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Best of 2008: Amusing, Creative and Just Plain Odd

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The prolific Matt McGee offers his annual list of signs you may be spending too much time in the SEO world, such as “While telling your son about your favorite childhood books, you wax poetic about the ‘Wikipedia Brown’ series. You never correct yourself. He doesn’t, either.&# Geek humor at its best. Poking Fun at Web 2.0

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing – An Hour a Day

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For one, Evans cites the notoriously anti-business Wikipedia as “an example of why social media is useful to you as a marketer.&# This makes the book an excellent guide to developing a social media plan and justifying resource allocation in a large organization environment, if somewhat short on actual execution. Share this on Bebo.

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The Insidious Nofollow Tag: An SEO Rant

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According to Wikipedia (among the worst nofollow offenders ), “The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. An alarming number of once-respectable social bookmarking sites—Digg, delicious, Mister Wong, Reddit, Mixx, Bibsonomy, Jumptags, Faves, Yahoo! But it all remains true. Tweet This!

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