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JUNE 17, 2009

LookupPage lets you create an optimized personal profile that, in most cases, will show up very highly on the major search engines, helping you to "own" valuable first-search-page real estate for your name. Find cool web-based tools for all of these purposes and more here in some of the best tools and reviews of the past year.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Lets Users Open Up Profiles by MediaPost Online Media Daily Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that " profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. "

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JULY 13, 2009

5 Ways to Maximize Your LinkedIn Profile by Social Media Musings Tom Humbarger offers helpful tips for those who aren't yet experts in social networking, such as "LinkedIn lets you add up to 3 links to your profile. Many people add their company website and/or blog.

LEADSExplorer 20

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MAY 12, 2009

Charts comparing solutions, suggested decision criteria, ROI calculator tools, case studies, testimonials, certifications, awards, affiliations, and executive profiles all help diffuse fear of making a wrong decision. Prospects are looking to educate themselves, do their own comparisons, and create their own short lists.

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MARCH 16, 2009

But most B2B marketers miss the nuances of their audience's preferences by jumping directly to deploying social technology without first profiling the social behavior of their customers. 55% of B2B buyers have created profiles on social networks.

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MARCH 2, 2009

This outstanding list provides, actually, more than 80 tactics for building links, ranging from the common (online press releases, listings in quality directories) to creative (create profiles on Slideshare and Slideboom and upload your PPT presentations, then add your website link to your profiles) to exotic (create geocities, tripod and aol memberpages (..)

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 16, 2009

MarketingSherpa provides a career classifieds section for high-profile marketing and PR positions. These postings tend to attract a lot of resumes, but if you're a marketing rock star, your next opportunity may be here. The Ladders offers MktgLadder , a service dedicated to six-figure marketing and PR positions.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Spokeo, the Big Brother of social networking by Pandia Search Engine News Internet consultant Phil Bradley reviews Spokeo, a profile aggregator that takes social networking to a disconcerting level. You might want to look yourself up Spokeo and adjust your online profiles appropriately.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 5, 2009

As the story of Georgia's blog continues, her experiences provide illustrative examples of routine, advanced and just plain cool features like: activating backlinks and trackbacks creating a blogroll adding a Twitter widget replacing a blogger profile with a Facebook badge (very cool) providing PayPal service for e-commerce selecting and building widgets (..)

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 5, 2009

Use your real name in your profile. Create and maintain profile pages on social networking and directory sites like LinkedIn , Facebook , Naymz , Jigsaw , Plaxo , ZoomInfo , CrunchBase (for technology executives), and VisualCV. to photo-sharing sites like Flickr. Start Twittering.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Three other articles from iMedia Connection worth reading are 7 marketing mistakes to avoid on Twitter by Rodney Rumford, Meet the brands that 'get' Twitter by Michael Estrin, and 7 tips for the perfect Twitter profile by Jason Baer.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

EvanCarmichael.com describes itself as "the Internet's #1 resource for small business motivation and strategies.

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APRIL 30, 2009

The only place our profiles can appear is on our corporate website. "We're only allowed to use Facebook and LinkedIn for one hour each day, from noon to 1:00, and we're not supposed to say anything about the company." "Our Our network blocks access to any website with 'blog' in the URL." "The

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

version, now incorporating elements such as LinkedIn profiles, blog links, Twitter pages, Facebook, StumbleUpon, even Second Life IDs. . #3: The Social Media Email Signature , September 18, 2008 A look at how traditional email signatures have evolved into their Web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

How to be a LinkedIn superstar by iMedia Connection Larry Weintraub explains how to get the most out of LinkedIn, from creating the right kind of profile, building connections and soliciting recommendations to working with LinkedIn groups. Top 5 SlideShare Groups – A Rich Learning Environment for Social Media by uber.la

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Take advantage of new tools to raise your own profile by commenting on existing content? Attract lots of targeted Twitter followers in a short time? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers?

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JUNE 3, 2008

show me John Smith's profiles on ZoomInfo , Facebook , LinkedIn etc. For example, a Reuters feed is a nice start but a much broader news feed search capability is required. Four additional content areas, just off the top of my head, that Viewzi probably needs to incorporate rather quickly are people search (e.g.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Tactics such as not posting an online profile or photo, posting anonymously, and avoiding any personal or identifying details. Author Sharon Housley contends that, due to the danger posed by cyberstalkers, "Females, in particular, should be cautious when circumnavigating the blogosphere." What does she recommend?

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Raising Your Profile: Beyond the Basics by The Wall Street Journal Journal writer Laura Broder details five basic steps that can improve organic search position for a website. Wal-Mart has a Facebook profile. If one more twat invites me to Facebook I'm going round their place with an axe! Go away and leave me alone. All of you.

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MARCH 10, 2009

Social Networking Sites where you can post your profile, promote links to your company site / blog / etc., The intent of the lists below is to categorize the landscape and show the most prominent sites in each category. They aren't intended to be comprehensive, but rather to identify the high points in the social media topography.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In the b2b realm, this could raise the profile of value-added resellers, systems integrators and managed service providers relative to software developers and hardware manufacturers, making strong channel relations more important than ever.

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APRIL 6, 2009

Grab Your Profile Link Before Some Jerk Does by The Link Spiel Echoing (and perhaps improving upon) the arguments I made about the importance of online reputation management in Don't They Know Who You Are?

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APRIL 2, 2009

Setup—while social media and networking tools are designed to be easy enough for almost anyone to use, having a social media consultant create new profiles, and review existing ones, can help assure a consistent, professional presentation across various sites.

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APRIL 15, 2008

By starting a professional profile on this site, you will be able to add real-world business contacts to your friends list, as well as the contacts of those people. With those tweets, you can sprinkle in a link to your latest blog entry or a special feature offered by the company.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

by iMedia Connection Sandeep Krishnamurthy , Professor of Marketing and E-Commerce at the University of Washington, paints a bleak picture of the future of PPC advertising—then gets blasted for it in the Comments by some fairly high-profile sources.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

As Hansell writes, Friend Connect gives website publishers an easy way to let users log in then link their profiles from other social networks (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Hi5 and Google's Orkut), and "add OpenSocial applications, written by Google and other companies."

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JUNE 29, 2005

There's a basic profile of Backflip here ; the email address is, I believe, still current, but the phone number is no longer in service.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

I look at your profile, check your recent tweets and bio, and decide if what you are saying is useful to me. In fact, I only follow back about half the people that follow me. Not useful, no follow. Stop harassing me!

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JUNE 4, 2007

tracking someone's every online movement) is a very poor predictor, because humans have way too many profiles. Baynote uses group behavior to improve site search and advertising. According to Mr. Jia, " Past behavior (i.e. I am a father, a son, a brother, I like travel, I like a lot of things.

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AUGUST 11, 2008

The software is designed to help organizations better harness the collective intelligence of employees by providing them with a secure, internal set of tools for social networking (profiles and connections), social updating (like Twitter ) and social bookmarking with project management functionality.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Michael Hartzell suggests creating a unique landing page to link to from your Twitter profile with a greeting and introduction that is a "secret page" only for your Twitter followers. Advanced Strategies TJ McCue recommends using TwitterBar , a tool that allows you to tweet directly from the address bar in your browser. There's lots more.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 6, 2009

2) Follow suggested people from Twitter (these are usually high-profile Tweeters). HootSuite —send a single tweet through multiple Twitter accounts, preschedule tweets and manage multiple Twitter profiles. Make your profile background attactive, professional and informative. 3) Follow the people who the top influencers follow.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Additional marketing users (with full editing privileges) are $49 per month, while sales users (access to leads only, with ability to update information about a lead, synchronize with their Salesforce.com account, view lead interest profile or push leads back to nurturing from within their Salesforce.com account) are $9.95

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

5 Social Media Mistakes To Avoid by ZoopMedia In another post on the theme of social media mistakes to avoid, Justin Wright offers up five surefire ways to fail, such as spamming the networks with only your own content and not taking full advantage of the messaging and SEO potential of social media profiles.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The free report, entitled Business-to-Business Launch Survey , profiles the ten key lessons B2B companies can use to improve their odds for launch success. The study investigated effective product and service launches to help B2B product and service managers improve their launch practices and success rate.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

It provides instant access to any video linked in a feed post, a slideshow view for Flickr photos or YouTube videos, and the ability to customize your profile and the appearance of your content.

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JUNE 15, 2007

Davis points out that with "Google Maps, Toolbar, Blogger, Okrut, Gmail, and Checkout, among other services.there's no question that Google has the raw data it needs to construct more detailed profiles of individual users than has ever been done before" to contend "Google needs to cough up a more detailed plan for protecting users' privacy."

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