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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:46 pm
Posted By: graywolf 17 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://lifehacker.com)
Category: Social Media
Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a wa read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 10 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Social Media
David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 2:13 pm
Posted By: davidmihm 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usereffect.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Dr. Pete Meyers, a well-known usability expert and Twitter addict, has decided to ring in 08-08-08 by celebrating "Twitter and [his] international friends by spending 24 straight hours on Twitter."

So no matter what time zone you're in, help @dr_ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: samirb 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
What skill do you need to become a successful social media expert? Tamar asks several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteris read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 1 day 16 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 6:34 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.smallbusinesssem.com)
Category: Social Media
Creating great content for your social network starts with preparation. Get to know the community and the types of content they like before spending your time and energy on content development. Once you know the people and what content plays well, y read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 4 days 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 5 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 - 11:15 am
Posted By: vangogh 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Is Plurk really a player in the big game with the likes of MySpace, Facebook and Twitter? Who are these Plurkers and should you bother with yet another social profile? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 5 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 3, 2008 - 9:32 am
Posted By: gyutae 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Social Media
It is greatly ironic that algorithms, the quintessential example of all that is not human, would be so fundamental to social media. Last week I wrote a post about how Google gathers user data. This week I continue by exposing how popular social medi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:06 am
Posted By: cchris 6 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.socialdesire.com)
Category: Social Media
TheNanny612 didn’t think the duty of choosing an avatar would be a difficult one. After all, what is the big deal, really? An avatar simply is a picture to help members of Online Communities know who you are…. is that really such a big deal? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 9:50 pm
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.digital-web.com)
Category: Social Media
Whether you’re an employee or a consultant, it sometimes falls to you to drag an organization into the 21st century—and that often means convincing a company to adopt social media. Someone might even be asking you about some new web tool their son o read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 4:44 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Blogging
Great post by Donna Fontenot that covers both prevention of and recovery from hacker intrusion, for blogs and other non-blog sites alike. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 6 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 8 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: July 1, 2008 - 5:51 am
Posted By: andrewsho 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Social Media
An interesting look at what your blog can expect from going hot at Sphinn. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 1:01 pm
Posted By: TheNanny612 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Social Media
Tamar explains in this post that you shouldn't be canceling your Twitter account yet..... Twitter & Plurk are totally different. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: KenJones 8 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 28, 2008 - 10:38 am
Posted By: theGypsy 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.sucomments.com)
Category: Networking
This is part three of a GREAT series on Plurk - this edition is one cliques, but I suggest reading Part I and II as well - I have been using cliques increasingly and they have a value... Check your Privates!! (lol) read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 28, 2008 - 2:27 am
Posted By: ViperChill 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.skelliewag.org)
Category: Social Media
Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike of traffic and the feelings of accomplishment this brings.

In this post, I want to argue that read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 4:24 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.doshdosh.com)
Category: Blogging
Want to take your blog to the next level? DoshDosh (Maki) gives great advice ... fancy yourself of the Editor-in-Chief, and not just as a writer.

Excellent point! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 2:39 pm
Posted By: nowsourcing 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://collective-thoughts.com)
Category: Social Media
Shana puts out an awesome post talking us through her avatar changes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Posted By: isaSuperstar 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Social Media
Digg has made some new changes today worth noting, including “simplifying the navigation”, updating the Candidates section, and adding an Olympics section to the site. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: cre8pc 14 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://cre8pc.com)
Category: Networking
What if we could make ‘Net communication more bendy, fluid, mingly, or centered where we can be together in the same space, rather than continue to go into our separate rooms, slamming the door behind us. read more »
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