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How I Organize Google Reader for Blog Commenting

Kikolani

And one thing I discovered very quickly about the photo community is if you want comments, you better start giving comments first. I started out on sites by photo bloggers I met at a photowalk in downtown Phoenix and branched out from there with people in their comments and on their blogrolls. In Google Reader, of course.

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How to Identify Your Own Top Trends of 2009

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. were most (and least) popular? Best to you.

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Free Tools for Monitoring Hot Search Trends

Adam Sherk

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement?

Adam Sherk

Some news sites are supplementing content links with direct questions and comments to users, but this does not appear to be happening in any significant volume. To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. NPR 489,413 513.5

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Weekly Roundup: The New Year Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Be a social business: PR trends in 2011 , from Sally Falkow’s The Proactive Report. Five trends all marketers should watch in social media in 2011 , by Matt Rhodes on FreshNetworks. Sign out Leave your comment here. Sign out Leave your comment here. Why: public relations measurement really isn’t tough.

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A Closer Look at Fan Engagement on the Fox News Facebook Page

Adam Sherk

After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans. Even more mundane news items still manage to spark a round of commenting. Which News Sites Have the Most Valuable Facebook Pages?

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A Comprehensive List of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins.

Saying It Social

of upcoming trends [link] Seesmic – Twitter & FB app [link] Twitterrific – Mac & iPhone app [link] TweetDeck – Twitter, FB & MySpace app [link] Power Twitter – Firefox Add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9591 Twuffer – schedule tweets for later! Buzz Index – Today?s It’s also structured very carefully.

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