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Topics related to social media search engines and sites. For more background, see the Let's Get Social column or social media news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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In recent times I [Brian Chappell] have compiled two interesting Social Network Reports. The Social Network Geographic report and the Social Network Traffic Report. Both reports conveyed some in read more »
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Peggy, a trampoline & whole football team, damage, Peggy sues, lawyers use her social media profile against her. Peggy argues privacy. Read & marvel. read more »
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With the appearance of several new niche social media sites is this the start of a new wave which will in turn lead to the decline of the larger more unfocused social media sites.

Will these "New wave niche social media sites" dominate the social read more »
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How to market a website via social media - over 40 articles. read more »
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As technology improves and new mediums for sharing information come about, news audiences will continue to fragment. This was evident in the 1980s and 90s with the explosion in popularity of cable television networks. Early in this decade, blogs too read more »
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The list of the most popular sites in Internet Marketing niche, with their ranks based on yahoo, google, alexa. Sphinn is the first one. read more »
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How does something like Sesame street become soo popular, and so recognised - and become part of everyday pop culture? And more importantly what does it teach us about content and blogging? read more »
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For the first time in human history, the day-to-day interactions between people are being permanently recorded and formatted in easily organizable segments of information. This has a plethora of consequences on how we record history, but here are th read more »
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Some guys over at MIT, NE and Stanford looked at marketing over social networks and used the "influence-and-exploit" strategy. They came up with a method which may help you. Short version on the blog, long version available too. read more »
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Self made Texas billionaire Mark Cuban was charged last week on counts of insider trading. Cuban has successfully invested in everything from computer software, consumer electronics, television, Internet services, and an art house movie theater chai read more »
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Beyond being an online media cultist, I’m also a devout TV geek. So therefore I’m of course obsessed with Dexter, Showtime’s wonderful, whimsical, and occasionally haunting tale of a “good serial killer.” read more »
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101 Ways to Rock and Be Rocked by Twitter read more »
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Twitter has their own method for displaying your Twitter status on your website but they rely on Twitter-hosted scripts and generally hold up the page load. That’s why i would like to showcase some of the best tutorials and WordPress plugins that wi read more »
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what follows is my version of a Social Contract, my pledge to my community about my involvement in the online world. read more »
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Mack Collier writes: "One of the biggest 'criticisms' of social media that companies have, is the difficulty in measuring the return on investment for their efforts. Many believe that widespread business adoption of social media won't happen until a read more »
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Manager: “I just don’t understand it. I’ve tried everything, but he still doesn’t get it. He just carries on doing the opposite of what he’s supposed to do.”
Me: “Well I’ve heard a lot about why you want him to do it, and a lot of reasons why he ’s read more »
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Deep links are back links or inbound links that go to a page other than your homepage. When you start trying to get links to your site, try to use a valid url for a page that most closely relates to the category or venue you are attempting to attrac read more »
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Las Vegas gentleman's club uses Twitter to reach conference attendees. read more »
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There are many topics about what is better drupal or wordpress. Unfortunately not all of this topics are objective and praise software on what based their websites. What is really better Drupal or Wordpress. read more »
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An Bui writes:

"Last night, @briancarter asked an interesting question: 'Did you guys see the super top law firm whose twitter profile (@orrick) was hijacked? Funny, sad, a good argument for ORM.'

"Hrm. Interesting. I had seen it earlier thi read more »
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Quality Gal writes about the 7 things we learned from Motrin Moms....

That the Power of Twitter and Social Media (and moms) is BIG deal!! read more »
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Twitter provides something like a word of mouth publicity. WOM has always considered to be very effective marketing vehicle.

11 good practices shared by Darren Rowse. read more »
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In part two of a series on why companies are slow to embrace social media, I want to look at another common excuse I hear from existing clients. When questioned as to why they have yet to get involved in social media, they complain that there is no read more »
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An excellent analysis of what makes something go viral and how you can incentivize sharing. read more »
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Twitter users brought down and entire Motrin campaign over the weekend. It took less than 48 hours once they got a hold of it. read more »
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