Today’s top ten (ok, 12 today) picks across the blogosphere, covering such topics as blogging, social media, twitter, social networking, and beyond. Let’s dive in and get our learn on!
- A World Map of Leading Social Networks Reach and statistical information regarding social networks and other social media properties is important for marketers using them to understand. No, you don’t need to obsess about the numbers, but you do need to understand the trends. Especially as it relates to your audience and business, to stay relevant.
4 Reasons Why Marketers Should Choose Facebook Pages Over Facebook Groups Great post from Inside Facebook about why marketers should always choose Facebook pages over Facebook groups. With the control you get on pages, I’d completely agree with their take on it.
23 Essential Elements of Sharable Blog Posts Great tips for making your blog posts shareable, particularly agree with the idea that list posts spread well. They’re easy to digest and great for social bookmarking activity.
Big Opportunities In Membership Sites When you’re figuring out how to sell or market your expertise on a higher level, this is a great post to reference. Great insight into the differences between products, ebooks, and membership sites — from a business perspective. Great post.
Local Tweets: 9 Ways to Find Twitter Users in Your Town Great list of 9 ways to find local Twitterers in your area. One caveat is that most Twitter users are not using Twitter as we once thought they were, so be careful when you mass follow and market. You’ll stick out like a sore thumb.
Social Media isn’t Replacing Marketing Folks… Great insight into what are we really saying when we talk about marketing, business, and communications… “From a measurement and communications perspective, marketing has many aspects that need to be considered, understood and―more importantly―bridged by tearing down marketing silos so that marketers work together AND have experience across the mix.”
Six Lessons Business Bloggers Can Learn From Great Public Speakers Great post that all bloggers need to pay attention to. “Still, there are lessons that every blogger can learn from great public speakers of the past in order to capture, motivate and move an audience.”
Social Media Bashing on the Rise So the crescendo of social media’s hype has reached the point where it’s almost trendy to bash it, and to tell you the truth, debunking some of the get rich with no work elements attributed to social media is a good thing, but to suggest businesses ignore the power of social media because it takes a lot of work to see a payoff is just downright silly.
Twitterati Says Email Isn’t Dead Yet – 6 Findings It seems that the email industry has done a lot more to work cooperatively with the social media industry than the other way around. Most major email service providers have some form of social sharing capabilities baked into their email, and my friends at ExactTarget are publishing meaningful research on this convergence.
Something rotten in the state of Twitter Search? Interesting, Twitter search has changed from being a permanent archive to only going back 2-3 days. This article spots that and advises as to why we should all care, especially those using Twitter for marketing.
Five Levels Of Social Media Responses This is a funny, but oh so true article at Social Media Today, looking at the very real responses you’ll find in social media. Number 5 is critical to long-term success. Which response are you pitching out as you dive into social media?
To Inject Personality Into Your Twitter Stream Using TwitVid.io Finally, the addition of quick and easy video on Twitter to help you stand out. How about this: if you have something to say, make use video to express your thoughts, are comfortable with who you are, and have some consistency, your Twitter stream will stand out from the crowd.
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