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

Webbiquity SMM

For both strategic and benchmarking purposes, create a spreadsheet listing your top competitors and, for each, showing: • Social features on their website (e.g. Other social activity and presence (Flickr, SlideShare, Wikipedia, etc.). Facebook / LinkedIn / Google Plus metrics (i.e.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

“Participating in social media isn’t just about creating a page, making a blog post, posing a question, or tweeting. You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product.

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Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses

Akamai Marketing

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Its so easy to think that because their are millions of blogs (and if you check out Technorati you’ll see that I am write right.)

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9 Criteria for Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Tool

Webbiquity SMM

Virtually every social media monitoring tool worthy of the label covers the big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit) and content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr). Many include at least the most popular blogs as well.

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Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Message Boards. What Can Social Networking Do for Your Organization? Ready to Start Blogging? A single tag can be used across platforms to aggregate links, photos, blog posts, and Web pages. To get started, visit the popular social bookmarks manager del.icio.us Full list of partners and products.

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50 Habits of a Highly Effective Blogger " EdithYeung.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I met a few celebrity bloggers like Mark Cuban, John Chow and Matt Mullenweg (founding developer of Wordpress) and attended many great sessions about blogging, podcasting, videocasting, SEO and social networking, etc. I especially like this one session with Denise Wakeman, Rich Brooks and John T Unger on the topic of Blog Design Basic.

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