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Social Media: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and What’s Next?

Direct Marketing Observations

The lists are coming, the predictions, the opinions and the trends-all those juicy posts that populate the month of December, they’re coming. One thing that is safe to say is that Google will make another play in the social space. They’re coming. So I wanted to get this out there while it could still mean something.

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Does Good Content Matter Anymore?

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Specifically Google, but Bing and Yahoo and all the other 2nd tier engines figure in as well. Perhaps, but it’s a short list. But there is a simple reason why they (marketers in general) have this burning desire to push out as much digital content as they can-whether it’s theirs or not. Organic search in a nutshell.

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10 social sites to start your year off with

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A Google doc that lists all of the known Twitter chats. 9) Want a really good list of people’s blogs to read and or follow? Check out this list of 30 bloggers to watch in 2010. But how do you find them? What are the topics? When do they occur? Face it, analytics for most of us, are very important.

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I have a client…

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Here’s a short list of “some&# of things I’ve done for them: Reworked/redesigned website for better customer engagement. Created a major SEO campaign that optimized complete site for hundreds of keywords all of which now rank organically on first 3 pages of Google.

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What or Who will Continue to Shape our Social Media World?

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Google -Though Google insists on trying to tap into our “social&# lives with it’s ill fated attempts with Buzz, Sidewiki, and Wave- they still are the standard bearer in search. Stay tuned as to how Google starts and continues to weave social elements into our search results.

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Should Your Social Networks Mingle?

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I went through the list and I was familiar with 4 of them. Messenger services are available through Google Talk, AIM, Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. A lot of the apps and web services that come across the desk lately have to do with consolidation and aggregation. But there’s a larger point I want to make here.

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30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010

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19) Another Google product Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow-Did you even know about it? 18) This pretty sweet image tagging tool from Tangelo was another one of those “this is cool but will people use it type of applications&#.

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