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Other topics related to social media. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 9:17 am
Posted By: Rhea 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
New Twitter tool - this one's from Cesar Serna and it kicks ass. Read the SEJ review of its strengths and weaknesses. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: August 5, 2008 - 7:47 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.makakmedia.co.uk)
Category: Other Social Media
Funny, fake social profiles. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Posted By: SexySEO 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.cornwallseo.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Lyndon Antcliff aka Lyndoman shares Link Bait Ideas read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 4:55 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Today I am adding a few tips on promoting your online profiles and organizing your reputation management campaign. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 11:25 am
Posted By: vbin 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techipedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
This is a guest post from kd kelly. kd kelly, aka dotlizard, who has learned a harsh lesson or two in her time on the internets, and wants to warn us about the dangers of social media as it relates to trusting relationships that end in lies, decepti read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 23, 2008 - 2:20 am
Posted By: vbin 28 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Social Media
BLVD Status is an analytics program that has a LIVE dashboard similar to something you would see in Have-a-Mint but with really robust information like conversions, search engine rankings, outgoing link information and many more data points. BLVD St read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2008 - 6:43 am
Posted By: vandelay 35 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://traffikd.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Some tips for those who think social media requires too much time to bother. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 11:24 am
Posted By: YoungMaster 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.vkistudios.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A look at Comcast's quick response to a customer on Twitter and some of the more robust tools that a company that large may be using to monitor it's online reputation. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 11, 2008 - 10:11 am
Posted By: nowsourcing 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://northxeast.com)
Category: Other Social Media
North x East puts together an excellent list of the top 50 female bloggers. Well worth a read. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 10, 2008 - 4:36 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insidecrm.com)
Category: Other Social Media
My Plurk article where I ask top Plurkers why they Plurk and to compare Plurk to Twitter. Featuring Darren Rowse, Rob Lloyd, Chris Hooley, David Harry, Samir Balwani, Kristen Munson, Li Evans, Kent Lewis & Lyndon Antcliff. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 5:01 pm
Posted By: toddmintz 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Social Media
David Wallace's excellent post where he argues that only that being an active participant in online communities (the right way) gives you the right and privilege to submit your own stuff to them. People who only join communities for self-promotion read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 8, 2008 - 2:13 pm
Posted By: davidmihm 42 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.usereffect.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Dr. Pete Meyers, a well-known usability expert and Twitter addict, has decided to ring in 08-08-08 by celebrating "Twitter and [his] international friends by spending 24 straight hours on Twitter."

So no matter what time zone you're in, help @dr_ read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 7, 2008 - 7:43 am
Posted By: tamar 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://en.wikipedia.org)
Category: Other Social Media
Just look at this guy's Wikipedia page. "Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Search engine optimization. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate read more »
20 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 5, 2008 - 8:44 am
Posted By: tomcritchlow 47 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://wiep.net)
Category: Other Social Media
Genius idea and an awesome post from wiep - very funny but really interesting as well. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 7:28 pm
Posted By: jeffquipp 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Other Social Media
A good post detailing 10 alternative social media sites to Digg that can drive traffic and links.

Very appropriate too given that Digg can be very tempermental. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 4, 2008 - 1:07 am
Posted By: jeffquipp 48 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Jenn Osborne defines the key elements that make a site, a community. Starting with this definition and principles, it should be easier to build a community for clients or yourself as a result. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2008 - 3:05 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Social media has opened up many avenues to many people and has brought forth a new level of communication. People now lean on the social media for support networks, feedback, counsel, research, conversation, and more. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: July 1, 2008 - 12:08 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 50 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Other Social Media
The implications of this cross pollination concept are this; to gain a foothold in the world of social media, you do not need to be an expert in all the major sites to begin. Choose 1 popular social media site to begin (Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Pr read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2008 - 11:33 am
Posted By: KenJones 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seo-scoop.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Pop quiz – If you could choose between 1,000 social media visitors and 1,000 search engine visitors for your blog or business, which would you choose? It’s a no-brainer right? Everybody knows that search engine traffic is of a far higher quality!
read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 3:25 am
Posted By: scottclark 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.webpronews.com)
Category: Other Social Media
iEntry (Webpronews) fires up a categorized twitter directory with over 300,000 Twitter users. An Alpha launch, it looks pretty good from the get-go.

I just hope that Twitter recovers from its current technical troubles in time to make all of th read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:53 pm
Posted By: dlarson104 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Hilarious list of the things a wife (or any spouse) have in common with Twitter - the site we all speak to more often than speaking to our spouses anyways! read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 25, 2008 - 9:41 am
Posted By: watkin29 57 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.utahwebservices.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Find out whats hot and whats not with these killer market trend tools. read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 7:36 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 58 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://onlinemarketingbanter.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Ironically, it isn’t the adoption of Twitter that has me reconsidering my stance. I have spread my anti-Twitter message to just enough people that adoption would result in endless ridicule and torment. It is the emergence of Plurk, Twitter’s latest read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 19, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Other Social Media
When I teach Social Media classes to small businesses, I can always count on someone in the audience to ask a question that goes a little something like this: "I've got limited time to invest in social media, but there seem to be a million sites out read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 13, 2008 - 11:12 pm
Posted By: PixelBella 68 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adwordsconsultant.blogspot.com)
Category: Other Social Media
Brian Carter speaks about Twitter to NOOBs. He's following >800 people finally has friends! The biggest question from the audience? "Why?" He explains that most of us on Twitter are "nerds or journalists, geeks or search marketers, but there are som read more »
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