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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Social Events (e.g.,

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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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. Answers Yahoo!

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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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Delicious is my favorite one to use for this. Answers Yahoo!

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Mixxing In, and Why Early Adoption is Important: A Review of the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. Yes it will. How do you manage? Answers Yahoo!

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed. And I do get an RSS feed from FriendFeed for content matching my search criteria.

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Relating social bookmarking that might appear to be extra fluff with aspects of good housekeeping and adequate outreach of a blog is a great tie-in … it gives me a few things to think about! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!