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It has been an interesting week for blogger faux pas. Search Engine Land found itself taking flak for its sensational post about obtaining links from Wired’s wiki. Meanwhile, Gizmodo suffered at the hands of its peers for its CES television monitor read more »
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Why do these well funded commercial enterprises get the social media space so wrong? There any number of freelance, social media consultants out there for hire. In fact, the average Sphinner could probably advise these Blue Chip companies better tha read more »
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One of the things that happens once you start participating in a few social networks is that you start to form Friendship Pockets. The tighter your friendship pockets become, the more strength they collectively have. read more »
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Social media can be very complex and involved but it can also be broken down into very simple and actionable steps. These steps can have an immediate impact on your businesses bottom line. And that’s what it’s all about. read more »
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corporate listening and enabling read more »
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From Chris Brogan Blog:
Chris Brogan is a social media expert specializing in building and strengthening online and offline communities. read more »
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Andrew Nagy and his wife are having difficulty settling on a name for their son due in February, so they thought they'd leverage social media to their advantage. Andrew has a poll on his site and they're taking votes! read more »
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Darren Rowse walks you through his analysis of how posting less frequently can lead to higher reader engagement. I don't think there's any arguing with his logic!

Another great post by Darren! read more »
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Congrats to Dosh Dosh for winning the best SMO blog! Techipedia came in a close 2nd!!! read more »
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Post Toaster allows you to submit your content to up to 60+ bookmarking sites. It also provides an option to select only sites that are missing the nofollow attribute. Lastly, you can enter up to 4 different titles and 4 different descriptions and P read more »
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Came across this interesting piece that gives 9 tips for launching a new blog, and it also includes a checklist of things to do. Very good read!

Link broken ... here it is http://nerdbusiness.com/blog/9-tips-new-blog-launch read more »
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Don't breathlessly expound company offerings without addressing what’s in it for the customer- ALL features, NO benefits. Adopt the right mind-set. Step back, assume role of skeptical customer. Ask "What are the damn BENEFITS?" read more »
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hammer time read more »
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A quick list detailing three ways to keep the blogging juices flowing when you are running out of them! read more »
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As reported by Tedster at the WebMasterWorld forum, Google has implemented what seems to be a penalty knocking down Tier 1 keywords for relevant and well established websites from premier #1 and #2 ranking to #6. read more »
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"We provide Digg FrontPage service for only $40 per story. You will get a lot of traffic and quality backlinks(even from PR6 and PR7 sites!)." read more »
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Shaun takes another look at visualising link equity, with hot links and hot pages. read more »
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In order to be successful at online marketing, an industry that changes almost daily, research is a crucial part of our business. I wrote a piece on the search engine journal titles, The Importance of Research: A 2008 Resolution, which inspired me t read more »
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If we assume that the average user on a social media site is ‘fairly intelligent’ (though it’s true that not all users are equally savvy and in the end some users will rise above others to be stronger contributers) then it makes sense to give a ‘top read more »
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A company on top of their game. read more »
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For edition 31 I bring you two women from two entirely different spectrums of the online universe. One woman I've come to greatly admire and respect, not just for our love of a TV Hero who wields "Mr. Pointy" (hey now, get your mind out of the gutt read more »
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Brian is now convinced that his site is on autobury read more »
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"Why the hell is this about blogging? Doogie packed a powerful learning experience sitting @ his computer typing on a blue screen after each episode. No web for Doogie to post his compelling content. Today Doogie's blog would would be front page Dig read more »
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Complete list of Gmail shortcut hacks in Gmail itself read more »
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Well, who'da thunk it?

My plea for Sphinns resulted in a huge outpouring of support. Once the post gained some momentum (at first, people seemed to be nervous about jumping on board) the Sphinns rolled in so fast that the post not only went hot b read more »
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