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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

As she notes in her introduction, Li’s book is organized around four main themes: Research: start by using search and social media monitoring tools to discover where your customers and prospects are congregating. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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The Social Media Strategist

Social Media Network Marketing

What People Have To Say About Pervara - Social Med. Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Social Media Strategist Develop comprehensive social media strategy, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace), blogs, video, stand-alone social newtorks, social commerce and more.

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Measuring the Impact of Social Media in B2B Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

This can be measured in a variety of ways such as number of “mentions&# of your company across social media channels, traffic driven directly from social media sites, and increases in branded search traffic (often the result of exposure through social media or traditional PR activities). Open, public social networks (e.g.,

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I can’t compare this kind of competitiveness to that on Reddit or Mixx, because the metrics available are only the karma points (and associated awards) but no real rankings. I know many are already in the process of trying out other social networks, so the phenomenon of social news won’t die down anytime soon.

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Do the same thing for your social networks, and your other interactions. We share many of the same struggles, especially in the areas of metrics and tracking, proving ROI, and generally justifying our existence. It makes your client feel special.