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Other topics related to social media. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 1 day 14 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: KenJones 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:25 am
Posted By: scottclark 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:53 pm
Posted By: dlarson104 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: watkin29 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Find out whats hot and whats not with these killer market trend tools. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Ironically, it isn’t the adoption of Twitter that has me reconsidering my stance. I have spread my anti-Twitter message to just enough people that adoption would result in endless ridicule and torment. It is the emergence of Plurk, Twitter’s latest read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: PixelBella 22 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Brian Carter speaks about Twitter to NOOBs. He's following >800 people finally has friends! The biggest question from the audience? "Why?" He explains that most of us on Twitter are "nerds or journalists, geeks or search marketers, but there are som read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 10:11 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 25 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.paigefiller.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A great post discussing 10 unusual truths about social media. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 11, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: vandelay 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Other Social Media
This post looks at the issue of whether a blogger should create content specifically to target social media users. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 7:33 am
Posted By: philbutler 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pronetadvertising.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Case study about Empire Today and Best of the Web on how old school branding techniques like mascots, jingles and logos build brand loyalty among customers who then indirectly promote the brand via user generated content like YouTube and Flickr. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 6, 2008 - 3:27 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Sometimes, looking at things from a different perspective helps. Here are 4 ways to look at social media from a different perspective … and none require the submission to go ‘hot’ to receive benefit. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2008 - 1:23 am
Posted By: northrock 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.toprankblog.com)
Category: Other Social Media
With the fast growth and uptime growing pains, debates about Twitter are plentiful so let’s settle it once and for all with a Twitter poll:Is Twitter the Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 3, 2008 - 11:31 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
I'm continually amazed at how people go barreling into social media sites like a bull in a china shop and then wonder why they aren't well received. They hear social media is changing the way people do business and they make the mistake of thinking read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 2, 2008 - 5:49 am
Posted By: mikemurray 36 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketingpilgrim.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hate negative results on SERPs? This piece is loaded with online reputation management (ORM) insights for your client or business website. It covers vital steps, expectations, useful tips and sites to target. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 31, 2008 - 4:57 pm
Posted By: Avinio 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
If you do your homework well, you will soon see your readers and fans promote your content for you. Why is it so essential to always keep track of who promotes you and where you are promoted? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2008 - 7:19 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 38 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
You should consider many factors when getting involved in Social Media Marketing, such as the quality of your content, your domain name, and who is submitting your content. But there is almost always one thing I find myself looking at before any of read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 25, 2008 - 4:52 am
Posted By: philbutler 43 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.money.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Money.co.uk has apologized for the most talked about linkbait ever, which was exposed by their now ex-marketing contractor, Lyndon Antcliff (Lyndoman). read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 5:23 am
Posted By: toddmintz 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semportland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
An aweseome post by one of the final Twitter holdouts, David Mihm, where he owns up to the errors of his ways and describes how he came to see the light. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 3:49 pm
Posted By: rishilakhani 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.fuelinteractive.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Dell has sold $500,000 of hardware using Twitter (from discounts/specials), and
Other people are doing more modest things like selling t-shirts.

The reason Twitter works for sales is, not only is it a communications tool just like a phone or em read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 20, 2008 - 4:45 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 46 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Where I demonstrate how widely and deeply Twitter has permeated so many different facets of people's lives.

Sphinn users that are included in this story: @leeodden, @dannysullivan, @mattmcgee, @lyndoman, @audette & @onreact_com. read more »
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