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21 (of the) Best Facebook Guides, Tools and Rants of 2012 So Far

Webbiquity SMM

Will Facebook continue to grow and dominate the web, or is it headed for a fall like AOL and MySpace before it? Explaining that “a Facebook Social Plugin is basically a widget you can add to your website to extend the benefits of your Facebook marketing efforts beyond Facebook. 5 STARS **.

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Social Media Weekly: 5 Stories You Need to Read

Firebelly

Firebelly Memo: You can also take Firebellys Social Sophistication Survey. Facebook “Like” Increases Referral Traffic to Blogs by 50% By Lauren Indvik TypePad users who installed the Facebook “Like” widgets on their blog sidebars have experienced a 50% increase in referral traffic from Facebook collectively, TypePad revealed in a blog post.

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

Convince & Convert

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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.), Creating sites on Facebook and MySpace are not either. Link drops in social media sites are not social media marketing. Answers Yahoo!

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Freemium Revenues: Social Media Business Podcast

Laurel Papworth

per member per year over at MySpace is NOT high. This blog post over at Wired Long Tail has broken down the different services that could be offered as free/premium – survey of free business models online. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Podcast (11). Normal banner ads etc? Related posts.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

National Survey Finds Majority of Journalists Now Depend on Social Media for Story Research by Cision. National Survey Finds Majority of Journalists Now Depend on Social Media for Story Research by Cision. Third, the survey was heavily consumer-oriented; b2b figures would be different. While 28% of U.S.

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