John Bottom has crafted an amazing, creative, interactive B2B social media landscape image with links to a large group of key B2B bloggers like Mark Schaefer, Joe Pulizzi, Beth Harte and Tony Karrer. Influence in social media: how to find the top bloggers by blur Group. Tac Anderson reviews seven of his favorite tools for saving time in social media consumption and management, among them TweetDeck , Twendz and Quora. Cohen describes how GE found success with a private social media community. Which social media monitoring tools should I use? What should I monitor for? MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! Home What We Do Awe-inspiring Clients About Contact Us Influence & Industry, the many axes about building a community 13 05 2010 Writing this blog on influence and taking the cycling industry as an example has been great. Communities : Like influence, ‘community’ is an overused word that means many things to many people. The cycling blogsphere is highly networked and therefore constitutes a community. MORE >>

These third-party developers, along with the broader Twitter community, were the ones who implemented hash tags, RTs, @ replies and many of the features that Twitter now takes for granted. could go on, but to me the path is clear; within the next 12-24 months, as Twitter slowly improves its mobile apps and website, it will eventually cut off ALL third-party apps including TweetDeck and Seesmic. Neal Wiser is Vice President of Digital Strategy and Operations at The ODM Group where he leads teams in the creation and execution of digital marketing campaigns. And, No. MORE >>

and Inbound Marketing Harnessing social & new media to amplify your brand, sustain your community and make you stand out from the rest! Home What We Do Awe-inspiring Clients About Contact Us A Baker’s Dozen of the Best Food Blogs 1 07 2010 The blogosphere has communities for just about every interest group: golf aficionados, animal lovers, wine enthusiasts….if Even understanding that there is an online place for everyone, there is one community so massive that it has garnered books , a movie and thousands of blogs.  Extanz – PR 2.0 1.     Good food. MORE >>

Facebook (71%) and Twitter (67%) are close behind…Other channels used by B2B marketers include YouTube (48%), blogging (44%) and online communities (22%).” ” Sharing habits differ based on the group being shared with, however, as “Social networks are the top method for sharing content with friends (92%)…In sharing online content with the general public, consumers prefer to use message boards (51%) or blogs (41%).” Or that 73% of U.S. companies now use social media for marketing (though the figure varies widely based on size of company)? Oh yeah. MORE >>