Groovy social internet marketing posts from across the Net today…
Blogging and Blog Promotion
How NOT to Promote Your Blog from Problogger: Great, reality check type tips on ways to not promote your blog. This is a definite must read for all newbie bloggers.
Blogger Outreach, It’s Not Your Program, It’s Their Content from Valeria Maltoni: Another brilliant post, with the biggest take away being that blogs are not simply another medium for promotion and giving power back to the community is what separates top bloggers from mediocre. Agree completely.
How to Write Copy for Short Attention Spans from CopyBlogger: Great, simple post about chunking your content and giving the “so what” at the beginning to get your readers reading.
How to Ethically Make Money as a Blogger from Andy Sernovitz: Great highlight of an important topic, that I feel needs to extend far beyond bloggers to social media “experts” and the like.
Branding
Simple, Effective Branding Strategies for Small Buziness from HP’s Small Biz Marketing Guide: Simple, yet oh so important tips for all small business owners for effective branding.
Untangling Branding and 4 Marketing Lessons from Lost by Influential Marketing: Great stuff, using the show Lost as a “case study” all 4 tips are very important.
Business & Internet Marketing
Seizing the Silver Lining from Harvard’s Scott Anthony: New book coming out, free chapter download in this post, which lights the first step of a 10 step checklist and the need for innovation in uncertain times.
Don’t Make These Macro Mistakes on Your Microsites from Hubspot: Great tips on really leveraging the power of microsites for your small business.
PR 2.0
A New Formula for Measuring PR Success from Jason Baer: Good insight into why PR measurements need to change.
Social Media Marketing
7 Social Media Mindset Markers from Paul Chaney on Marketing Profs: Great list of mindsets you need to embrace to be successful, #6 and #7 are questionable as a permanent mindset that will last, but great stuff nonetheless.
Audience Targeting in Social Media from PR Squared: Great, simplified look at the target divisions that exist within social media users. Great starter understanding for businesses new to social media.
Why FriendFeed is New Must-Have in Social Media Toolkit from Debbi Weil: Great post covering the basics of why FriendFeed needs to be in your toolkit. Note, we’ve been using them as such for months, great tool!
Social Networking & Facebook
Giving Back and Target’s New Facebook Page Campaign from Relationship Economy: I love what target is doing with their new application and Facebook page campaign, great win-win for everyone.
80 Year Old Principles Apply Today in Social Networking from Geoff Livingston of the Buzz Bin: Simply awesome list of specific tips on social networking, including break-down by popular sites.
Twitter and Microblogging
Using Affiliate Links to Make Money on Twitter from Six Pixels of Separation: Orginally, Jeremiah Owyang gave tips for using affiliate links, I agree with the post author, follow the four tips provided.
Twitter Ties to Please Them All from Marketing Pilgrim: Twitter has turned off your ability to see @replies to others that you do not follow. You can see them in a stream, but they are limiting the ability for users to discover in a social concept. Lame.
There Changes on Twitter to Pay Attention To from Jason Baer of Convince and Convert: Great look at the changes that will matter, past the whole #fixreplies hysteria.
A Reasonable Look at the Twitter Replies Fiasco from Danny Brown: Great, bi-partisan look (so to speak) of what’s really going on and a look at potential solutions.
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Highly Recommended: You’re Writing for End Users, You Always Were from Valeria Maltoni is a definite must read for all bloggers, small business, and anyone who is publishing content online!
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Have a super groovy weekend!
Maria 
About the Author...
Maria Reyes-McDavis is a colossal geek brainiac, certified genius IQ with university degrees in Finance, Economics, Business Management and an MBA. Maria has served over 300 pro-level, digital marketing clients as founder of online marketing firm Digital Peas & Carrots. Maria is Founder and Editor of Hyphenated Americans, a conservative politics blog and Proverbs 31 Project an online women's ministry. Most importantly, Maria is a wife to her king, mother of 3, lover of basketball (Go Lakers & Clippers!), classic cars and is currently training for professional women's roller derby!
