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Old Spice: Successful Social Media Campaign

Mindjumpers

3 things the campaign is doing right: • Giving something back to the community – the videos encourage people to engage with the Old Spice guy and manages to give something back you can look at, thus giving the user a sense of ownership and seeing concrete results. It’s a simple idea, but is creating a lot of buzz and PR.

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4 Ways the Twitter You Know is Changing Forever

Convince & Convert

The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. As they write on their blog : A Twitter community is just like your workplace or your neighborhood: it’s made of real people.

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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The Question Of Quora

Twist Image

Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. Imagine the ability to really ask serious and honest questions of your consumers and community members. It's called Quora. At it's core, Quora is a question and answer service. albert sheu. foursquare.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event - June 11, 2008

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Rensselaer and the Tetherless World Research Constellation are partnering with one of the most widely read technology blogs in the world, ReadWriteWeb , to help engage the entire Web community in this interactive event. The questions for discussion will be shaped and selected by the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world.

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122 Social Bookmarking Sites and How To Use Them

Little Web Giants

The last few years have seen many in the SEO community proclaiming that social bookmarking sites are dead. Digg Terms of Use. Your goal is to become a valuable member of the community and not just someone spamming their own content. Digg add-on for Firefox. Digg browser extension for Chrome. Chrome extensions.

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2nd Annual Biggest Search Geek Contest

Bill Hartzer

Each entry will be judged and scored based on the number of questions correctly answered in a timely fashion (so if you think you can take a month to answer one question, think again). Each question has a possible total score of 5 points, and you can get a maximum of 100 points if you answer all the questions correctly. Carpe Diem!