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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% Wikipedia is the most difficult to edit due to the tight control maintained by the site's primary editors and their hostility to any content that can be construed, however remotely, as promotional. Knol may lack Wikipedia's cachet, but it's a much friendlier place. 7 Naymz 12,476 522,953 +93.2%

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The 5 Best Social Media Sites for Small Businesses

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LinkedIn – Everyone is truly connected in the business world and LinkedIn offers a way to visualize this massive network. Tip: According to Guy Kawasaki , those with 20 or more connections on LinkedIn are 34 times more likely to be approached about business opportunities through the site.

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

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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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The Coming Consolidation in Social Networking

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Wikipedia lists more than 100 social networking sites , and Social Media Trader recently compiled an even more exhaustive list of 115 social news and bookmark sites rated by PageRank, number of inbound links and dollar value of each site. A while back, I posted the Alexa rankings for 42 popular Web 2.0 social tagging sites.

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The 4 C's of Social Media

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Social media "are primarily Internet- and mobile-based tools for sharing and discussing information" according to Wikipedia. These can take the form of interaction on a social sharing site like Searchles , blog comments, Twitter replies, LinkedIn messages, writing on a Facebook wall, or other means of online dialog. Social Tagging.

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Using ALL the Tools of Social Media Optimization

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Wikipedia is the best known but also the most difficult to work with ; that leaves an opening for alternative wiki sites such as Google's Knol , open-site.org , Freebase and others which are less contributor-hostile.

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Best of 2008: Cool Web Tools, Part 1

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The top menu and right sidebar box make it simple to narrow your search to the entire web, just your PC, or Wikipedia, as well as by related terms, site type, media type and other criteria. WiseStamp lets you control the look of the email signature as well as adding RSS feeds and social networking links like LinkedIn and Facebook.

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