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High Points on the Social Media Landscape

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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. 9 Knol N/A 386,772 +22,303.6% 7 Freebase 22,726 206,489 +1,132.2%

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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. Wikipedia – It is a boon to your small business to be mentioned on Wikipedia.

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

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Start Twittering. 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. to photo-sharing sites like Flickr.

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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. 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.

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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.