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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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Andy Beal's list of 8 Free Social Media Monitoring tools. Its a great list with some good tools on it. read more »
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In this article we will unearth five surefire ways you can grab traffic from Twitter instantly read more »
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Interesting piece about a recent legal case whereby someone has been sued for misrepresentation. read more »
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Companies will finally get in on the game and openly respond to customers. read more »
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Kim Krause Berg launches a new website. Kim (Kim_cre8pc on twitter) is the mind behind cre8pc.com and cre8asiteforums.com and www.usabilityeffect.com

Snippet from the about page "Akesana is the combination of the first names of everyone in my fam read more »
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Social Media ROI is dead?

@AmberCadabra writes:
"We have literally bludgeoned the poor social media ROI horse to death recently. There’s a lot of sage discussion that’s happened around the topic, but it all seems to boil down to a few things, an read more »
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Over the past week there has been a bunch of buzz about what essentially are Facebook marketing hacks; quick “guerilla” tactics that help boost exposure to your profile or brand. Whether you are a small business or a big business, there are some qui read more »
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In case any of you hadn’t noticed, there’s been something of a civil war on Twitter over the issue of whether advertising should exist there. I say, enough of the brawling. Biz Stone and his crew should lay down the law and establish advertising cha read more »
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There are many ways to promote your blog. Search engine optimization, submission to directories, rss feeds submissions, bookmarking websites etc. In this post i want to talk about bookmarking websites. What pros and cons of using bookmarking website read more »
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An article over at Wired today asks Is Social Advertising an Oxymoron? One interactive marketing executive points out the problem with advertising on social media sites: "Who said this is media? Consumers weren't trying to generate media. They were read more »
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Guy Kawasaki writes: "I may get more value out of Twitter than anyone else on the planet because I use Twitter as a tool—specifically as a marketing tool—for my website Alltop and my book, Reality Check. If the concept of using Twitter in a commerci read more »
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There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal Web Pages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more t read more »
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For the happy coders amongst you - some resources to get you up and running, building Twitter bots to gather all sorts of information. read more »
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Google has now announced its plan for extensions in Chrome. The extensions are mainly featured to allow the user to customize the functionality of the Chrome suiting their individual requirements. Google has also published in a document that Chrome read more »
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IMRG the organisation that represents the UK e-retail industry records that Monday 1st December recorded the UK’s largest ever online shopping volumes. However, anticipations that the new drop in VAT would increase volumes failed to materialize, lea read more »
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Awesome list of social bookmarking sites categorised by PR, Alexa Rank and Do/No Follow :) Great resource! read more »
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15 helpful tips to fight writer's block. read more »
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The twitterverse agrees that Matt Bacak is a douche. Dave Fleet analyses why people reacted so badly to Bacak's ludicrous self-promotion. read more »
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"to represent as human : attribute human qualities to b: to adapt to human nature or use" read more »
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You Twitter or use some kind of microblog, but what can take your social media strategy to the next level? Short URL redirection. read more »
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In more instances than we want to admit, tips not only won’t (and can’t) help us to improve; they will actively get in the way of fundamental improvement by obscuring the advice we need with the advice that we enjoy. read more »
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Micro blogging refers to the posting of very short updates about oneself. It is in contrast to long-form blogging, where there are usually at least a few hundred words. Microblog posts usually involve a few hundred characters or less. Instead of pos read more »
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Free Greasemonkey script add-on for Firefox that streamlines using Facebook's Ad Manager. If you've got a large grouping of ad campaigns it becomes time-consuming using their current UI, this script provides you with quick-links to add, delete, rest read more »
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When friends convince you to join a social network, they mention all the positive aspects of being connected. They tell you about reconnecting with friends or how sites can assist you with finding a new job. Some only want you to join these sites ju read more »
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Lisa Barone writes, "Everyone’s on the hunt to find a way to monetize social media. Or at least that’s what we hear. We hear about the networks themselves trying to make money. The advertisers looking for ways to pad their pockets. But what about u read more »
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