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Social Media Strategy: 10 Experts Reveal Their Secrets

Viper Chill

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. More than any other social site on the web, with Digg you have to participate in all aspects of the site. Digg, however, is really hard to “game.&#

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Add an avatar and a bio at the minimum. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Once upon a time, I stumbled upon a Digg submission of a Sphinn submission of a blog post. Not humanizing your profile.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Those ten B2B leads you get after the first few months are ten leads you would not have gotten otherwise. Yes, Twitter and Facebook and Digg and other niche sites cost nothing to join, making social media a relatively free marketing option. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Also, while I think it’s somewhat less likely that a first-time visitor will tweet or Digg or Stumble your work (I’d love to see a study on that), you should make that process as easy as possible as well. Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside.

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50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

David McClellan presents an outstanding to optimizing all of the elements of your Twitter profile (name, bio, avatar, URL and feed) for search. According to a MarketingProfs study, monitoring and responding to brand mentions are ranked among the most successful Twitter marketing tactics by both B2B and B2C marketers.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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35 (of the) Best Guides to Facebook Marketing, Advertising, Search and More of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

4 Tips for B2B Marketing on Facebook by Mashable. Do your research (particularly for b2b marketing) and pursue audience quality over quantity. Share this on Bebo. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Facebook. Share this on FriendFeed. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on LinkedIn.