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» Social Media Profile Optimization
07/04/09 19:53 from HR Search Marketing
I often get asked how social media and search engine rankings can be used together. For t he most part I can tell you that most SEO professionals use social media mainly as a channel to help people discover content and link to it as well as..

» Yelp Integrates Facebook Connect, Online Reviews Becoming Increasingly Social
07/03/09 12:30 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
The local review-sharing site Yelp has added Facebook Connect to allow users to easily share local business reviews with their friends on Facebook. Yelp allows anyone to submit a review for any local business, from restaurants to shoe stor..

» Breakdown: 3 Ways Brands Are Earning –And Buying– Followers On Twitter
07/03/09 12:09 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
Companies who don’t have iconic brands with millions of adoring fans, often have to resort to other ways to get the attention of the market. This isn’t evil, nor is it uncommon, it’s just business, and was here before the web, and will be ..

» Survey: Social Networks Not So Hot In The Workplace (And No One Cares)
07/03/09 12:02 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
Are people social networking at work? More than half (55%) of office workers with Web access have at least one social networking account, but only 43% use it at work, and typically for less than 30 minutes per day, according to a new surve..

» Social Media? DO NOT Start In Marketing
07/03/09 12:00 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
With maturing strategy models, assessment methods and new reporting and analytic tools, businesses look differently at social media compared to just one year ago. Clearly marketing was the early adopter of social media, created campaigns a..

» Econsultancy’s Take On Monetizing Twitter And Social Media
07/03/09 11:42 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
This is the second post in our three-part blog series with Rebecca Lieb, Econsultancy’s Vice President of North America. Econsultancy, the UK’s leading source of insight on digital marketing and e-commerce, has been a partner and resource ..

» Community Engagement Modeling
07/03/09 11:31 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
Over the past 4 years I have been thinking about how to get individuals involved with and participating within a community. It is not an easy thing to get a group of individuals comfortable with your site and each other to the point of par..

» Does Anybody Still Use Second Life? And If So, How Much Is It Worth Today?
07/03/09 11:27 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
Analyst firm Next Up Research has published an extensive report on Linden Lab, the San Francisco company behind virtual world Second Life. The research is based on aggregate data and is available on SharesPost , a site set up to trade shar..

» Why Competency-based Selection Should Be in Your Toolkit
07/03/09 04:39 from ERE.net
Competency-based selection (also known as behavioral selection) is a well-known selection method about which many books have been written, and many training courses delivered. Despite this, in my conversations with other in-house recruitme..

» Is Twitter Killing Other Online Activities?
07/03/09 03:40 from Search Engine Watch
The world may be all a-Twitter, but it seems the inordinate amount of time now spent there is costing other places traffic. Given the social aspect of Twitter, it could be a forum killer long before it becomes a serious threat to Google. ....

» careerbuilder ceo on job outlook
07/02/09 23:41 from cheezhead

» How Intuit Makes A Social Network Pay
07/02/09 18:24 from socialmediaBiz.com - RSS
It's hard to get tangible results from social media. Giants from Coca-Cola to Wal-Mart Stores have set up Web sites where customers can share their interest in the brand. But many of these sites don't attract enough visitors to form a real..