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10 Questions You Should Ask Your Social Media “Expert”, “Guru” or “Wizard”

SocMed Sean

If you operate in a regulated industry such as pharmaceutical, tobacco, alcohol, finance, insurance, or a host of others… it would be a good idea to find a professional who has significant experience in your industry and understands any limitations or restrictions. 3) What are my competitors doing? Probably not. Email this to a friend?

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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

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The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13). The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13). This represents a six percent increase over the 2008 study. 86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Reply Jay B. will bring!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Not one of them has a blog (solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers etc). If so, how?

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Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Think of all the attorneys that do insurance defense work…no friggin’ way could I do that and sleep at night. Reply Linda February 14, 2008 at 11:36 pm I posted this on Digg. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca It’s well worth the read. Answers Yahoo!

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank. i feel like many of them had 5x the amount of friends on myspace than they do on facebook. Thanks for allowing me to comment! Answers Yahoo!

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.