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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

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Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are three examples of brands that appear to be taking this message to heart: Fandango.com Best-known as a portal for buying movie tickets online, the site is actually quite diverse in terms of its content offerings. That’s good stuff, but what makes the website truly great is the inordinate amount of social and mobile integration.

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10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&# And that differentiates StumbleUpon from the other social “news&# networks. Hope that clarifies where I’m coming from!

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. It was great to also be able to share my experience with my Twitter followers and Facebook friends.

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The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

, I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? A few weeks ago I wrote a post over at SEO Scoop comparing the quality of search engine traffic against social media traffic. page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

&# Reply Onibalusi Bamidele August 26, 2010 at 5:52 am Really great post Tamar, The self promotion aspect was what I learned the hard way, after being banned on over 100 forums and some social bookmarking sites. It is similar to the education I hear going on about length of time to get results via organic SEO.