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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). This will give you a rough benchmark for your own social media activity (if you already have an active program) and will help you identify any positive outliers—competitors who are far more successful than average in social media—to take a closer look at.

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How to Integrate Social Media into Your Website with a Homeland Embassy Strategy

Convince & Convert

It’s an idea shared first by Steve Rubel , though I’m not sure he meant to take it as far and as literal as I’m going to here, but the basic gist is that your website is your homeland and your social networking accounts are your embassies. Or do they need to socialize their homeland as well? The same is true of social networks.

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US Women Are Following Brands & Stores

Proactive Report

It’s no surprise that women dominate most social networks and news sites. 19% who follow a superstore via social media. . Image credit: lu_lu on Flickr. Tags: Research blogs brands facebook networking social media strategy twitter women. 36% follow a food/beverage brand. Follow me on Twitter.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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Successfully Engaging Customers with a Cause

Buzz Marketing for Technology

They harnessed blogs and message boards – “be very careful if you are trying to sell them – must be a very genuine conversation” Went to breast cancer blog sites – tried to give relevant information and how they can join in National Breast Cancer Awareness day.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Get Your Social Media Story Straight | Blogging and Content.

Convince & Convert

The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr). However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). If you have a photo gallery, it should be everywhere.