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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Although I don’t post very much at all these days, I still read the threads on Twolvescentral.com (Star Tribune kind of killed the boards) on my iPhone every day. link] Jan_B @jaybaer is on a roll this week!

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

Convince & Convert

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Good stuff.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

8 Tips for Blogger Outreach : Networking is important, but how do you reach the influencers you’re looking for? Don’t Abuse Social Network Pings : Social media gives you ways to connect with people you know easily, but there are certain etiquette rules to take into consideration. Summary: network (the verb).

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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. Flowtown allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. Glad I stumbled here.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. Last week I receive a canned response from them telling me to look at their FAQ page (which I already knew offered no assistance).

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