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		<title>Social Bookmarking: Will You Still Dig Digg?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a year, a major redesign has been in the works for Digg, the popular link-sharing site that acts as a website promotion tool. A dramatic revamp from that of its predecessor, Digg is now more social than ever, with features that encourage users to ‘follow’ others and subscribe to preferred sources, enabling a more personalized approach to social news.]]></description>
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		<title>Are Geolocation Services Like FourSquare and Facebook Places A Marketing Distraction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is one of the hottest trends in social media, yet a time waster for most of us small business entrepreneurs?  The answer is the geolocation (real-time, location based) services like FourSquare, Gowalla and now Facebook Places.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are There So Many Social Media Startups?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of startups jumping on the social media bandwagon.  Some of them, like the game developer Playdom, are swinging around in the Facebook jungle. Playdom generated more than $50 million in sales last year, and they expect to double revenues this year. Yowza. And, there&#8217;s more space in the jungle: Facebook&#8217;s traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Touch Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that a growing percentage of senior citizens have iPhones? That&#8217;s because touch technology is meant to be user-friendly. And, in the next few years, the software will become even more intuitive and easy-to-use. Eventually, touch technology will change the relationship we have with our computers, and the way we engage with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Social Media to Make your Brand Talk and Listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that social media is a medium of online broadcast for many marketers today. Social Media being what it is, that is, “social”, brands not only have names but they have faces as well.  Now brands can “talk” more than ever before, having their own Facebook pages, Twitter channels and blogs. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Can Practical Social Media Do For Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your social media campaign should be guided by solid business goals, just like your company.  This will ensure that everything you do in social media provides a direct return on investment to your business.  What is surprising is that only two goals (Search Engine Rankings and gaining more Visibility) make the list for most entrepreneurs.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting into Social Media Communities: Blog and Forum Seeding</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that one of the key points to Social Media is community. People in real life, like to affiliate themselves with affinity groups based on racial and residential origin, interest, activity or occupation. Some social media platforms where communities aggregate are blogs and forums. Most successful blogs produce content on a given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining the Press Release in the World of Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew? Who knew that a press release could be short, personal, interesting or even specially constructed for small business?  Social media changes everything, and in this case, social media drastically changes the feel and purpose of a press release and how it suits your marketing efforts.
For many, the idea of a press release was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Twitter Quitter? Four Common Mistakes Made by Twitter Newbies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clarissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[60% of new users leave Twitter within the first month. This is no big surprise, because Twitter doesn’t make sense at first: it’s hard to understand the point. A lot of folks think everyone is posting inane comments to their friends, like: “I just ate and enormous bowl of broccoli!” or whatever. But that isn’t the point. Nowadays, Twitter offers you a chance to connect to valuable information and potential clients. You won’t realize this at first, because it takes a while to build the community, so give yourself a bit to figure it out.]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media: The &#8216;New&#8217; News Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed the amount of news reported on your favorite national news station that actually comes from Twitter or Facebook? Or how about news stories centered around a You Tube video or noteworthy Tweet? Social Media is not only creating news, it’s disseminating, delivering and providing news. Apparently, social media is our future in more ways than one.]]></description>
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