For those of you that haven’t heard, there is a new SEO, social media voting site called SERPd. In this new community, you can submit your quality content related to SEO, social media, and blogging, as well as discuss and vote on other quality content. Here are 5 reasons you should join the SERPd community today. It’s currently the only “social voting” site on the web that caters to the SEO, social media, and blogging industry. place you can find content that you’re really interested in. We are making this a SOCIAL voting site. MORE >>

Brands are learning and applying a more focused and disciplined approaches to their social assets, the November 2010 ComBlu report finds. The “State of online branded communities ” report evaluated 241 communities from 78 enterprise level companies in the US and shows that the percentage of brands exhibiting a ‘cohesive strategy’ increased from 20% to 33%. Community Management was highlighted as core to this yet nearly half of the communities still have no active online community manager visible as the “face of the brand. Retail. Tweet This! MORE >>

Because of the fast pace of social media, we are constantly bombarded with distractions from one social network or another. You have to participate and engage consistently, Facebook seems to change something on a weekly basis, Google has all of these animal-named announcements, new social networks pop up all the time…it’s exhausting to keep up with everything! recently asked on our Facebook page, “If you had only 20 minutes a day to spend on social media, what would you focus on?” You can easily spend hours, if not days, on social sites! Twitter. MORE >>

Tweet Written by J-P De Clerck , who is an experienced content, conversion and social media consultant. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. Why do people share content? However, in trying to answering it, one can find a lot of value for his business and “target groups” in this integrated social media and cross-channel marketing age. Content is an enormously broad concept that we use every day without really defining it. The focus on content relevance is normal. The types of content that get shared most. MORE >>

SOCIAL MEDIA & LEARNING. SOCIAL LEARNING. Social Media and Learning. Part 1: Social bookmarking, social file-sharing and social networking. Jane Hart is a Social. understand how new social media tools can be used for learning and. Here she looks at how new social media tools can. was all about content publishing by ?experts?, is defined by social media tools, which. support social interactions and connections with people, as well as. as well as Social Learning. Social bookmarking. MORE >>