Whether you are into social media for fun or marketing, you should be doing a weekly (minimum) visit to:
These are no-brainers written by top-tier social media people like Maki, Tamar Weinberg, and Neil Patel. If you haven’t visited any of these, stop reading write now and check them out. When you’re done, come back and read about the less-known social media blogs, the “hidden gems” on the blogosphere.
Here they are, in no particular order. Read them and learn:
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For those that read this blog, you’ll know that I’m passionate about the web, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be furthering the Web Strategy mission by accepting a new role at an amazing company.
Recent post worth reading: Overused Ideas: The Executive Community
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Scott Monty’s perspectives on implications of social media – the convergence of marketing, advertising and PR on the Web – for marketers, agencies, the enterprise and the individual.
Recent post worth reading: Social Media On the Road
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People, in general, are social (or soshal, depending on how you spell it). We like to interact with others, especially those who have shared interests. Whether in person, on the internet, or both, human connections make us feel whole.
Recent post worth reading: Social Media Marketing: Different Styles, Different Goals
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In the world of social media, there are really only two names that stand out. Digg, the leader in the business for over two years now, and Reddit, the simple alternative to Digg, have been 1 and 2 for a while and show no signs of relinquishing that position.
StumbleUpon is arguably in the mix, but it is not a true social media site. Delicious and Slashdot have their own claims, but again, they don’t fall into the same realm of true socially driven media sites.
Which brings us to the topic of this story. There is Propeller, formerly Netscape, the once proud pioneer in the web browser world that transformed itself into the ultimate Digg-killer and fell short. In the other corner is Mixx, the spunky startup that grew as the Digg alternative with innovative features and speedy adjustments to its identity. As of today, they are neck and neck on Alexa. Read the rest of this entry
Its always fun to get into something new, something that tries to break the monotony set by others. My addiction with Social Media drove me to try out Socialbrowse the other day and since then I have been going at it, nonstop. If you would like to learn more about Socialbrowse please read this article where we covered a little more on Socialbrowse.
We had a chance to talk with Dave Fowler who co-founded Socialbrowse along with Zack Garbow. Zack wasn’t available at the moment so Dave gave us a little more insight on Socialbrowse and how it all started.
Here is a short interview we did with Dave regarding Socialbrowse, Read the rest of this entry
Alexa seems to be going downhill with all the changes they have been making recently. Most of us have been relying on Alexa graphs and stats to view what the site is worth in terms of traffic. Seems like everybody has been changing how their system works. Digg and Stumble Upon seem to make changes which at times make sense and at other times are compltely non sense. However, recent Alexa change is way too much to handle, atleast for me.
As of now the web is abuzz with news or rumors that Alexa won’t be counting social media traffic and will keep such traffic out while ranking sites and blogs. Although this particularly helps for the advertisers as most advertisers are not looking for social media traffic since they don’t convert. However, Alexa wasn’t created just for advertisers, was it?
Alexa has lost reliability and recognition among web masters and this approach will certainly make it a less viable option for bloggers. Most blogs today wouldn’t survive without social media traffic. Social media although manipulated in some sense is still one of the biggest way individual sites have been able to pull traffic and prove their existence on the web.
Personally, I think this is the most bogus approach ever taken by Alexa. If they wanted to target more towards advertisers they could have extended their services towards advertisers only, not change the entire system that has been there for years for us all to analyze our ranking and such. Please click on the two links provided as the source at the bottom of this article.
As of this point Alexa has said goodbye to Social Media traffic and we say goodbye to Alexa.
note : Please keep in mind that this is an individual opinion. Some might consider this a good move but I am on the other side of the fence.
[ source : Performancing and DailyBlogTips ]
