article thumbnail

What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Now, adults ( who make up the largest segment of social media users ) accept brand presence as part of the social media experience, but here’s some bad news: According to a recent study by Forrester Research, just 6 percent of 12-17-year-olds who use the Web desire to be friends with a brand on Facebook. Probably not.

Lurker 203
article thumbnail

78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

article thumbnail

How to Really Build Backlinks and Dominate Google

Viper Chill

Digg lets you find news that you know hundreds of other people recommend. For your Gadget blog, it may be announcing a new product before anyone else. Bookmarking sites like Delicious simply give people a place to store their favourite links an organisable archive, which is generally far more useful than your browsers bookmark bar.

Google 87