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A few months ago, I was messing around in feedburner and noticed something pretty drastic, I was rapidly losing subscribers on a regular basis. I bet that you are losing subscribers too, even ones that have signed up for your feed. Since this discov read more »
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Most of you are probably seeing SearchWiki in action today. It allows anybody to edit and comment on Google search results. read more »
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An SEO strategy is an organic process.

Your SEO campaign should change focus as your popularity grows. The SEO approach for an established site can be quite different to that of a new site, mainly because, with an established site, you can levera read more »
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You know me. I love to share. So, I’m offering it up to you as well. Here’s an ebook meant to get your mind started on how social media ties to the more traditional buying cycle. These are some thoughts I’d put together immediately after my presenta read more »
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Shana Albert's first video, this one looking at how you can use social media to add conversation into your business. read more »
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Some great examples you can probably take some ideas from. read more »
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So now I introduce to you the five most common methods of making a boring topic popular with social media:

1. Beautify
2. Harness humor
3. Scandalize
4. Employ fear and loathing
5. Transfer popularity read more »
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StumbleUpon has made some changes, now add more than 200 friends read more »
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Great guest post by Skellie over at Problogger. What is the real value? read more »
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Trying to keep on top of the ever-changing world of social media? Whether you are a marketer, developer, technologist, industry insider, or simply a news lover, this is the list for you. We've put together the top 50 social media blogs for the year read more »
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Finally six months after its launch, Yahoo! Buzz is now open to the public. The announcement follows several months of beta testing the service to selected sites, including the SE Journal. Yahoo claims that Buzz now has around 5 million users and si read more »
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Emotional engagement is the key to viral marketing success. People share their everyday experiences by communicating them to others in and outside of their network. This social sharing is more rampant when the individuals develop intense feelings li read more »
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Ignite Social Media is excited to announce the launch of the Follow Me Wordpress plugin. The Follow Me plugin allows you to easily manage and store your social profiles, right inside the wordpress backend, eliminating the need to continue to manipul read more »
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You can, with Twitter's new search engine, which they just bought from Summize. I've already written about Summize before. I miss Summize and its cool colored blocks. Oh well.

I started using it tonight in a way that's making Twitter fun again. read more »
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Doing something that differs from what people expect always tends to catch attention. Part of why we tune things out is a lack of novelty, which makes even previously desirable subject matter mundane. read more »
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Great post by Smashing Magazine, something I think we can all take some commentary from. I'm a big fan of design and usability. read more »
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Active participants in social media have different reasons for interaction. Some enjoy the friendly banter exchanged with fellow users, while others are attempting to increase the traffic on their own sites. A perfect site is a harmonious blend of t read more »
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Conventional wisdom has it that males on the Internet gravitate toward pictures of pretty women like hungry honeybees to a sugary tulip, and click, click, click. It's why Tila Tequila has 3,345,634 MySpace friends and Tania Derveaux has 108,907 YouT read more »
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I use the sphinn bookmarklet button but it annoyed me when submissions opened in a new window, this isn't much but for those of you who want to use it in a new tab copy this link to your firefox toolbar:

Sphinn Button

If that doesn't work chan read more »
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When I first started this social media agency, the question I was asked most often was, “What is social media?” In just a few months, that question morphed into, “What kinds of things can social media do for my organization specifically?” read more »
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The best book I’ve ever read about marketing isn’t about marketing. It’s about baseball. read more »
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Today I wanted to take a break from that series to discuss, over the next two weeks, the seven building blocks of a Destination Website. read more »
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There are companies that offer SEO for £50 a month and there are companies offering it for £50,000 per month so what’s the difference and are you getting value for money? read more »
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It shouldn’t be the be all and end all of Twitter, but lots of people are focused on getting as many people to follow them as possible.

Personally I would rather have a few people really interested in what I have to share than thousands who are j read more »
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Far too much of what we write about attention and interest is abstract. We talk about differentiation, value, and triggers — all useful concepts, but you can’t point to them. You can’t hold out your hand and say, “Give me some differentiation.” As a read more »
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