Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter.

Hitwise 124

Hitwise Social Media Digg Survey 124

Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? And the use of YouTube etc to distribute the news about the Paywall.

Communities 108

Communities Social Media Journal Diagrams 108

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

Social Media 278

Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here are some egregious sins that you must not perform on social media sites. Avoid these violations and learn how to manage and maintain online relationships on a variety of popular social media sites. Facebook Adding users as friends without proper introductions. Using a fake name as your Facebook name.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Ranking as the Original Source for Content You Syndicate : According to Vanessa Fox, you can get the ranking control over that article that some lame blog just ripped off. It usually works. : Jason Falls explores the commonly-discussed (but not easily answered) question about social media. Scared of Social Media? Not excess.

SEO 162

SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162