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Twitter is top social media channel among Fortune 500

Firebelly

The number one ranked company, Exxon Mobil, does not have a Twitter account. The insurance industry has the most Twitter accounts (13). This represents a six percent increase over the 2008 study. 86% of these blogs (93) link directly to a corporate twitter account, a 300% increase over the 2008 study.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace Driving Sales with Relevancy and Utility [link] Innovate AZ 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. I just ditched AT&T for T-Mobile. Bob sells insurance. I just want to send Twitpics and talk to people.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The EA Mobile Human Tetris project takes you to a Facebook application where everyone participates in a game of Tetris. Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# For example, let’s say you’re an insurance agency or a bank. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Even getting this far has been a carnival ride of mortgage, insurance, real estate, movers and utilities drama. Fully virtual, fully mobile. Will there be bumps along the way? Definitely. But ultimately, it’s going to be worth it. In social media, and in life you have to embrace a simple concept: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), Creating sites on Facebook and MySpace are not either. Link drops in social media sites are not social media marketing. Be real time.

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Best Social Media Stats and Market Research of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

“70% of social media users between the ages of 18-34 regularly use Facebook more than other sites such as MySpace, Twitter, and Classmates.com,&# and women use Facebook more than men. Also, nearly half (45%) of all mobile phone owners send text messages on a daily basis. 80% of Twitter use is on mobile devices.

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