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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

We update our blog regularly—with everything from live performances and backstage interviews, to commentary on upcoming album releases and the latest guitar gear. Guitar news happens fast, making it difficult to churn out blog posts on everything out there. Our research led us to new social platform, ROCKZi.

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

Convince & Convert

Then this is the blog post for you. I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Anyway, I just got off the phone with a new client out of Canada, and we had nearly the same conversation that this post covers. So, giving you all the cred.,

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

“Participating in social media isn’t just about creating a page, making a blog post, posing a question, or tweeting. You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product.

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Reddit Blog Marketing 101

ProBlogger

Reddit is a great way to drive traffic to your blog. It could be a social news site, or a social bookmarking site, but in fact it’s just a place where people can share interesting stuff from the Web. You can post links to blog posts, news articles, videos, photos—anything you like. Targeted marketing.

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

Convince & Convert

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing.

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A Review of the New Digg Images and Universal Taxonomy.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Are you submitting a news story? If it’s a news story, you can even choose a thumbnail (that will appear on the upcoming list or on the top right corner) if Digg is able to locate one for you. Here are four news stories on Digg’s upcoming list with and without thumbnails. Is it an image? Is it a video?

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These are the users who are familiar with networking on Digg (finding friends with similar interests) and checking not only the front page of Digg but the Upcoming page as well (which is far more important). Blog posts have been written and buried once a user submitted it to Digg. It’s hard to say if that will happen again.

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