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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

.&# Though measuring direct ROI is challenging , a successful social media program should increase engagement with customers and prospects, provide direct website traffic and increase branded search traffic. Li really “gets&# social media from the social, search and business perspectives, and this shows throughout the book.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. It’s like any other news medium.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Let’s get ready to rumble… Generic network: StumbleUpon : In the blue corner we have Stumbleupon – one of the largest social bookmarking sites on the web. As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. On the other hand, Sphinn is a professional network dedicated to industry news.

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20+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? A powerful real-time social search engine that not only displays results for a specified term or phrase, but lets you filter results by source (e.g.,

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