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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Tweet This!

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

If Google Alerts had been developed with a focus on social media, this would be it. This tool is fast, easy to use, and offers a useful set of filters for finding mentions of a company or topic in specific types of social interaction (e.g. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Share this on Technorati.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As I said earlier, it’s an extremely targeted type of marketing and people specifically seek it out. If you have that type of following, take advantage of it! If you just want top news, CNN Breaking News works quite well. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Low Return Industries These types of businesses tend to take a long time to create return in social media. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Have you ever encountered this type of issue? Reply Tamar Weinberg August 19, 2010 at 9:12 am Claire, that’s sort of the type of incident that prompted this post. She has her own understanding of social networking and refuse to open herself up to exploring it herself to gain an understanding of this phenomenon.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Learning is key – By having many minds contribute to the final goal, people can learn from one another on other ways to do the same type of work. There are 2 fundamental types of websites on the net: 1. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.