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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

The explosion of social media has led to a corresponding need for more sophisticated monitoring tools that can crawl the hundreds of social networking and bookmarking sites and millions of blogs across the globe. Social Mention. If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it.

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

PR pros now use tools like Twitter, PitchEngine , PRWeb and Vocus in place of fax machines, media packets, wire services and Bacon’s , but the fundamental skills of storytelling and relationship-building remain crucial. Many “traditional” journalists now write blogs; does that make them bloggers?

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

For both strategic and benchmarking purposes, create a spreadsheet listing your top competitors and, for each, showing: • Social features on their website (e.g. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e. Find relevant groups on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

I have said on this very blog that I was dubious about putting too many eggs in Facebook’s basket , because you’re essentially building your marketing program on rented land. Do you join in, and try to engage your customers there, or try to pull them out of their Facebooking to go to your static site or unlinked blog?

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

Convince & Convert

I have said on this very blog that I was dubious about putting too many eggs in Facebook’s basket , because you’re essentially building your marketing program on rented land. Do you join in, and try to engage your customers there, or try to pull them out of their Facebooking to go to your static site or unlinked blog?

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