The main advantage that third-party comments have over native comments is the ability to combine your other social networks into the conversation, as opposed to just the readers of the blog post. Some other benefits of using a third-party system include: Social media reactions. You can see how popular your post is on the likes of Twitter, Facebook and more by having tweets and social network updates as part of the comments (either integrated or as a trackback). image: ilmungo. The following is a feature article by Danny Brown. Native Comments. You can use CommentLuv. MORE >>

It is a fallacy to suggest social media brings us closer. When we study how people are interacting on social networks, we see that most interactions are with a very small subset of the people we’re connected to. Social media will not bring us closer. But we can reach out to each other and connect. -- You just read Why Social Media Does Not Bring Us Closer at AriWriter. Related posts: How Social Media Should Connect Us. Why Social Media is Not For Asses and Bubble People. 40 Days and 40 Nights Without Social Networking. MORE >>

When you consider Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was featured as TIME magazine’s person of the year, not to mention ‘The Social Network’ film success, is the top honor a surprise to you? Social Media Facebook GoogleJudging by an analysis of the most-visited websites during the first 11 months of 2010, in comparison to 2009, Facebook hit first place and surpassed Google. Care to guess this year’s top website? Will it be Facebook, Google, or someone else? -- Ari Herzog thanks you for reading Google vs Facebook: Name the 2011 Winner on his blog. MORE >>

Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media. Media bloggingIt seems that every month there is a newspaper article about the death of blogging. Editors talk. Verne Kopytoff wrote a sensationalist headline in the New York Times in February 2011 entitled, “ Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter.” ” I and others responded at the time why Verne was nuts and blogging was very alive. ” As if. 500 over time, that elaborates corporate blogs are disappearing and corporate Twitter accounts are gaining notoriety. MORE >>

The Social Network might have hammered the Facebook brand even further into the public consciousness but, even without this rush of publicity, the bigger social media sites are difficult to avoid. This means right now is the ideal time for businesses to ramp up their social media marketing -– and do it across all their language markets. Econsultancy’s 2010 Social Media and Online PR Report indicates that 83% of marketers are planning to increase their spending on social media this year, yet only 26% plan to run campaigns in more than one country. MORE >>