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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Edition of Google News now lets you collect private, sharable badges for your favorite topics. The more articles you read on Google News, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. RSS feeds are another good opportunity, both for content discovery and because users sometimes utilize them to power link modules on a blog or other site, in which case they become a direct source of links. Widgets and badges. Partner links. The same goes for media relations in general.

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Local Business Offers Up Foursquare Special

Freelance Social Media

It was the venue of Lawrence’s only known “Swarm&# badge on Foursquare so it should come as no surprise that it would have such a special. Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin The Sandbar is already known as a social media friendly business with its usage of Twitter , Facebook and blogging.

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I Don't Care Where. You. Are. Right. Now. | Almost Savvy

Almost Savvy

I’m drowning in a sea of “I’m at Panera Bread (Free wifi FTW).&# I can hardly wait for the Facebook geolocation feature to roll out soon (cue: sarcasm). No badge, no mayorship, no virtual prize, no free sandwich is worth it. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Seriously, stop it!

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7 Best Newsletter Builders for Creating Great Newsletters

Writtent Blog

Other features include: Unlimited image hosting (exceeds market standard). Full featured API. While this email client does not offer any image hosting or a drag-and-drop editing feature, the WYSIWYG editor is an excellent tool and includes 150 templates to start with. Other features include: Spam Assassin spam checker program.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup, November Discounts & Life on Facebook

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a great discount code for November, and life on Facebook on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have stumbled upon , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Want to be featured in Fetching Friday posts?

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Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh'My

Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Foursquare Gowalla and Yelp Oh’My I’ve become obsessed with location based applications for my iPhone. As I travel around, I check into airports, hotels and where ever else I go and I earn little badges and become the virtual “Mayor&# of locations.