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How to Spice up Your Social Media Strategy in 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Make people feel like they’re a part of something bigger than some back-and-forth chit-chat on their favorite social network. I just suggested that you emphasize sales more in your social media plan. It might happen after solving a customer’s problem because of a social network complaint, for example.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

By Marla Tabaka With over 100 million members, LinkedIn is the top business social networking site. How to Build the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2011 Edition. By Jamie Beckland 2011 has been hailed as the “year of geolocation.” As was 2009 and 2008. Here’s a quick guide to help you get started. Alas, so was 2010.

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‘China’s Facebook’ Renren Seeks NYSE Listing [Data]

Idaconcpts

; literally “everyone network&# ), formerly known as Xiaonei Network (Chinese: ???; literally “on-campus network&# ) is a Chinese social networking site with an interface similar to that of Facebook. As of 2011, it has about 160 million registered users. Xiaonei became Renren in August 2009.

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Why More Members, Money, and Ads Don’t Always Mean More Success: A B2B Marketer’s Survival Guide

Webbiquity SMM

This question is particularly compelling today as we see Facebook set new records in terms of users, market valuation and revenue growth and wait with anticipation to see if Myspace can reinvent itself after conceding its market leadership position in social networking back in 2008. Background on the two social media sites.

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Social Media Complainers – your new BFF's

Akamai Marketing

My favorite tidbit of info: 68% of consumers who posted a complaint or negative review on a social networking or ratings/reviews site got a response. I’ve always advised my clients that its better to have people complain in an open forum where it can be addressed. Of those, 18% turned into loyal customers and bought more.

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The Most-Read Posts of 2012

Net-Savvy Executive

March 2011 (#3 in 2011). Applying Social Network Analysis to Social Media - September 2010. Human vs. machine analysis - April 2007 (#5 in 2011). Visual text analysis - April 2007 (#6 in 2011). Visualizing networks based on communication - February 2008.

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The Thesis Theme is Gone

Ari Herzog

I installed the Thesis theme on November 6, 2008. But since mid-2011 I saw myself using less thematic features and creating more customized functions. With my social networking priorities changing this year, I secretly wanted to get rid of Thesis but I didn’t know what other theme to replace it with.

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