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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

This presents misunderstandings (at the least) and enlists your people beyond just the marketing and PR groups. Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry). Forums and Message Boards (the oldest and second-most commonly used forms of social media).

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The effective practice of social media marketing requires monitoring all channels, from online cruise message boards to social networking sites like Facebook or LinkedIn. And those who see that the big loser is the message board’s credibility, and by extention, other board’s credibility, also.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. I would then create a group in my database solely populated by those influencers, and I would create a whole series of outreach and engagement campaigns to trigger positive brand chatter among them. What would you do?

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Cloud Jacking: 7 Steps to Dominate Your Niche

Viper Chill

They can be found on the Steve Pavlina forums, forums for specific aspects of personal development (motivation, productivity, health) and they also like to spend time on Facebook Groups. The influencers behind Facebook groups not only include the creator, but the people who put in their time and effort to keep the group active.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

SocialMention For more comprehensive social media searching, I use SocialMention , which indexes blogs, tweets, message board posts, and a lot more. For example, when I’m ready to invite people to my new Facebook Fan Page, I can use Flowtown to determine which of you are active on Facebook, and send an email only to that group.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. It’s a bit like group therapy. Yup, it’s true. It felt good to be exclusive.

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Best Social Media and Digitial Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 1

Webbiquity SMM

” 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%).” 500 companies. 500 companies.