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Is Google Losing Focus?

Firebelly

It has some extremely nice features lined up and it’ll be exciting to see how it eventually stacks up against Facebook, but it’s even more interesting (to me, at least) how Google is switching its focus from a branding standpoint. It’s true, Google isn’t a search engine, it’s a brand.

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Why Google+ Is The Place To Be For Local Business

Small Business Mavericks

In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve written a few times about Google+, but what I haven’t done is told you why your local business should be using Google+ for social networking, marketing, and branding. You can’t do that on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. There is actually more than one reason.

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Choosing a blogging service: Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress

Mindjumpers

If you wanna try it out for the first time, you can go for one of the free services, but if you are a company or a brand, you should go for the selfhosted Wordpress option. You can choose and customize between different layouts can be incorporated with other Google services like Feedburner, Picasa etc.

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Ready for Yet Another Social Platform? Here Comes Google Buzz

Almost Savvy

Here Comes Google Buzz Posted by Irene Koehler in Facebook , Networking , Social Media , Twitter on February 9, 2010 | one response Are you ready for a new social platform? As of now, it will integrate will services including Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Reader. Facebook is absent from the list.

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Everything You Need to Know About Google+

Social Media Marketing

The announcement was certainly strategically timed, with Facebook's f8 developers conference scheduled for Thursday - so strategic that Facebook itself made a few announcements early. Not Just a Social Network but Glue When Facebook was created, it began as a private network only available to individuals with.edu email addresses.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Best Keynote at Blog World

Kikolani

Why brands cannot ignore social media mavens – almost an infographic like post on the profile of social media mavens and why they are so influential. Cracking the Facebook code – how does the social media giant decide who and what to put in your feed? An eight point checklist on what to look for.

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Why Bloggers Should Consider Engaging on Google+

ProBlogger

Branding : G+ is great for building your brand (I’ll touch on this later) but an essential part of my own brand is having my own home base. A home base is a place where I have control but also where I build my brand. Brand plus. Social media is as much for me about branding as anything else.

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