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Weekly Link Round Up – 01-13-12

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Sharing Is More Real (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

With a new year, there’s no doubt that times will change yet again. It’s the same thing with marketing online. Sharing has become the name of the game. Despite the challenge that comes with it, there are advantages to getting in front of the sharing curve.

5 Tips for Making Your Brand More Social (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

As marketing trends shift towards a more social attitude, businesses need to step their game up. To market effectively on the social web, a business needs to maintain a constant, compelling brand voice.

How To Revive a “Dead” Online Community (ManagingCommunities.com)

If you need to revitalize a community that has gone stagnant, tactics need to be thought out. Improving the community is one step towards bringing it back to life. Beyond that, moderators need to look to the future to keep their community alive and well.

4 Short-Form Blogging Networks Perfect for Customer Engagement (Mashable.com)

As new ways to engage different demographics start trending, businesses both big and small can go beyond Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to get in touch with their ideal customers. Short-form blogging allows for content to be shared quickly, but each network offers its own features that appeal to different demographics.

How I Took the Toughest Blog Niche, and Owned It (ProBlogger.net)

It can be tough to develop a marketing scheme for a niche such as those in industrial businesses, but it can be done. Although the advice currently existing on the net may not exactly meet your business needs, it’s possible to take some concepts and combine them with niche industry knowledge to create a truly engaging strategy.

Tags: Blogging, Business, community, content creation, Marketing, Social Media, social media marketing, social networks
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Weekly Link Round Up – 12-30-11

Friday, December 30th, 2011

2011 Social Media Hits and Misses (Soshable.com)

The year 2011 was a big one for social media, as mediums such as Twitter and Facebook found worldwide attention through events such as the Day of Rage in Cairo. At the same time, it was also a year of memorable blunders. Soshable takes a review of these.

Five Social Media Trends for 2012 (SocialMediaExplorer.com)

As 2011 comes to a close, predictions for Social Media’s future in 2012 come to light. Some trends to look out for in the upcoming year include the rise of Content Marketing, and the convergence of marketing, technology, and data.

Top Social Media Acquisitions of 2011 (SocialFresh.com)

Speaking of 2011 in review, the year was also one for acquisitions, as smaller services were acquired by social media superpowers such as Facebook, Twitter, HubSpot and Google. Popular blogs were also acquired by bigger companies AOL and Say Media.

3 Ways Taste Graphs will Fuel Social Commerce in 2012 (Mashable.com)

While social commerce in the past had been more about broadcasting than actual interaction, today’s social commerce experience isn’t complete without some form of interactivity. Taste graphs bring interactivity to commerce, reaching out to people by showing them what they want.

Is the Golden Age of tech blogging over? (BrianSolis.com)

It is true that blogging has been eclipsed by the fast-paced interactive media from giants such as Facebook and Twitter. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that blogging is dead. As Brian Solis shows, you have a choice as a content creator, curator or consumer.

Tags: Advertising, Blogging, Business, companies, content creation, Facebook, foursquare, Google, online marketing, Social Media, social media marketing, Twitter
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Weekly Link Round Up – 11-18-11

Friday, November 18th, 2011

How to Share Content on Social Media (Business2Community.com)

Do you know when your audience is most receptive to your content? Biserka Anderson reveals the wonders of Clearspring and shares social sharing tips that’ll help your content reach more readers and customers worldwide.

Social media manners: A how-to guide for content marketers (LeeHopkins.net)

Avoid a truly embarrassing social media faux pas with helpful do’s and don’ts shared by guest blogger Rachel Carlson.

Copy Content—Get Penalised! (SocialMediaNews.com)

Social media has made it easy for a lot of people to share and distribute content easily; however, bloggers end up frustrated when others copy their content and publish it in other blogs and websites without permission. In this informative post, David Cowling uncovers how we can prevent people from stealing our content.

Every Comment Counts: Building Better Online Relationships (SocialMediaToday.com)

Experts say that users of social media should NEVER let a comment or a wall post go unanswered if they wish to have more personal connections with their audience. Kyle Ginthner explains how we can start treating customers as people and begin building closer ties online.

Does Social Content Drive SEO? [Infographic] (Blog.Dlvr.it)

This dynamic infographic shows how social signals can provide a significant impact on search engine results, and explains why creating content that’s designed to “go social” is the best way to reach customers and improve sales.

Tags: Blogging, content, content creation, conversation, Social Media, social media marketing, social networking
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Weekly Link Round Up – 09-09-11

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Top 10 Small Business Facebook Pages: 2011 Winners! (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Social Media Examiner announcers the winners of its Top 10 Small Business Facebook Pages for 2011, with Intrepid Travel, Easy Lunch Boxes, and Snap Retail nabbing the top three slots.

Blog Exposure: 10 Free Ways to Get More Exposure, Traffic and Subscribers to Your Blog (BloggersPassion.com)

Sadly, posting quality entries is not enough for a new blog to get noticed. Through pinging their blog posts, guest blogging, utilizing social media websites, and other free techniques, bloggers can easily get increased exposure and traffic to their blogs.

Introducing a New Tool: WhoReTweetedMe (DanZarrella.com)

By simply entering the URL of a recent blog post on this nifty tool, bloggers can immediately view a timeline of Tweets to the entry’s URL, statistics about the post’s potential reach, its average follower count of retweeters and more.

Questions That Matter To Facebook Community Managers (SquareBerry.com)

For increased brand awareness, it’s important to make the most out of social media networks by establishing a relevant number of followers. However, after garnering a huge fanbase of “likers” on Facebook, what would a community manager have to do with 10,000 fans to complement a business’s social media outreach?

Chatterfly: Online Rewards for Local Businesses (Building43.com)

Airlines, hotels, and car rental companies have all done it before—employing rewards programs for ensuring the loyalty of their best customers. Using this proven-successful strategy, Chatterfly enables businesses to motivate and keep their customers coming back through a unique social network mobile rewards platform.

Tags: Blogging, community, Facebook, Social Media, social media tools, social networks, Twitter, twitter tools
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Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Stopping that damned writer’s block before it strikes

Weekly Link Round Up – 01-13-12

Weekly Link Round Up – 12-30-11

Weekly Link Round Up – 11-18-11

Snapshot: Tumblr’s rise in the social media space

Weekly Link Round Up – 09-09-11

Business blogging: The Crucial Initial Planning