With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook’s user base or Lindsay Lohan’s court appearances, it’s tough to keep up. Social Media Marketing Tips, Tactics and Guides. Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Social media has dramatically altered the buying process as well as marketing practices. 10 Essential Social Media Tips for B2B Marketers by Mashable. by Kuno Creative. MORE >>

Cision combines its own PR tracking capabilities built on the former Bacon’s clipping service (older PR pros, you may need to explain to your younger counterparts what a “clipping service&# was back in the day) with a white-labeled version of Radian6 to provide markets and PR professionals with a 360-degree view of brand mentions and trends across traditional and social media. Until fairly recently, keeping track of your organization’s online presence was relatively easy. Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. MORE >>

Social Media Marketing Social PR blogger outreach brand building bylined articles pitching bloggers social bookmarking social media coverage social media press release social networks social PRSocial media and PR would seem to be natural allies. Both are primarily focused on brand awareness, credibility building and image enhancement. Both are critical tools for dealing with bad news or crisis situations. Both require relationships with influential people in one’s industry to be effective. And both rely on the ability to tell an interesting story. Since many (most?) Share this on Bebo. MORE >>

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Influential voices like Olivier Blanchard and Jacquie McCarnan present formulas and methods for ROI calculation, while Steve Goldman contends that social media ROI can’t be measured in isolation, and Jackie Cohen reports that more than a third of CMOs still have no idea whether or not social media marketing is producing any ROI. 10 Steps to Finding the Influencers in Your Market by Junta42. ** 5 STARS. new rules for YouTube marketing by iMedia Connection. But 44.24 MORE >>

Blekko’s Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative by MediaPost Online Media Daily. It enables users to perform slashtag searches, so for example, rather than just searching for “social media marketing&# and getting a zillion results of all types, you can search for “social media marketing /blogs&# to see only results from blogs. Measure your social media marketing performance with tracking tools for the major social media networks, keep tabs on competitors and compare your results to theirs, and get alerts about trends and social media activity. MORE >>