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20+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools

Webbiquity SMM

You’ll find all of this and more in this collection of tools and reviews of some of the coolest free or low-cost social media monitoring and web tools so far this year. Social Mention. ** 5 stars. A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Cool Web Tools.

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Search Engine Optimization Benefits A third, more subtle, reason to “fix your house” is the impact that social functionality can have on search engine optimization. Reply Allen - Personal Brander May 18, 2010 at 10:32 am I was supposed to write about the search engine benefits when I first read your Title!

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. 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.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# And that differentiates StumbleUpon from the other social “news&# networks. Sorry, guys, it’s five years later.

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Reply Onibalusi Bamidele August 26, 2010 at 5:52 am Really great post Tamar, The self promotion aspect was what I learned the hard way, after being banned on over 100 forums and some social bookmarking sites. I discovered the best thing to do is to give value and others will look for you. Thanks a lot for the great post!