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FanMix – The Only Inbox You’ll Ever Need for Managing All Social Messages

by Charnita Fance on Feb 2, 2012
FanMix – The Only Inbox You’ll Ever Need for Managing All Social MessagesFanMix describes itself as “one inbox to rule them all”. The tool allows you to manage all of your social conversations from across the Web. While they currently only support three social sites, you’ll soon be able to manage your blog comments as well as various other sources. It’s meant to be a “dead-simple inbox, just like email”. So if you’re still suffering from social overload or just looking to make your life easier, FanMix is worth giving a try. It will help you keep up with all mentions of you or

It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?

on Feb 2, 2012
It’s Not Whether Google’s Threatened. It’s Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For?

If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation.

Did Facebook’s S-1 Simply Serve to Keep Congress Away?

by Frank Reed on Feb 2, 2012
Did Facebook’s S-1 Simply Serve to Keep Congress Away?We all know by now that Facebook has filed the paperwork for their IPO. If you want to learn who is getting rich and by how much there are myriad blogs etc that will give you that information. I have read a few of these and the takeaway from them all? Zuckerberg is stupid rich while Sheryl Sandberg is “busting through the glass ceiling” and brings home the bacon for her home in a big way. There, I just saved you a toe of time!

Integrating Your Blog With Your Facebook Page

on Feb 2, 2012

Using social media to boost a blog’s SEO, exposure, and marketing strategy is all the rage these days. Bloggers of all types and topics – ranging from those who give financial advice to those who seek out highly skilled online psychics

Win Copies of Brian Carter’s “The Like Economy: How Businesses Make Money With Facebook”

by Andy Beal on Feb 1, 2012
Win Copies of Brian Carter’s “The Like Economy: How Businesses Make Money With Facebook”Can you believe it’s been more than a year since we last gave away an awesome marketing book? Yeah, time to fix that! We’ve got 3 copies of Brian Carter’s The Like Economy: How Businesses Make Money With Facebook to give away to Marketing Pilgrim readers. Barely two months old, Brian’s book is already garnishing high praise–and 5 stars–on Amazon. If you know Brian, you know that he’s a pro when it comes to Facebook marketing and in The Like Economy, he promises to

Blogging Declines in Inc. 500 Survey

by Frank Reed on Jan 30, 2012
Blogging Declines in Inc. 500 SurveyThe past few years have been one of severe upheaval in the marketing world. As we continue to shift from the traditional world of marketing to a mix between the ways of marketing from the past 20 or so years and the digital / social media environment the landscape shifts regularly. One area of social media that carries a wide array of opinions regarding its use is blogging. I am tempted to put quotes around social media in reference to blogging because social media as it is defined by most today makes many

Google+ Spreads to AdSense, Will It Spread to the Whole Web?

on Jan 26, 2012
Google+ Spreads to AdSense, Will It Spread to the Whole Web?Seen in the wild (well, OK, on this very site): The “Recommend this on Google” hover box at the bottom is new, I’ve never seen it before (then again, my ads are usually from FM). It’s what we in the biz call a “social overlay” or a “social ad” – and as far as I can tell, it’s only available to those advertisers who use Google AdSense.

Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web

on Jan 24, 2012
Put Your Taproot Into the Independent Web(image) This article - Early Facebook App Causes Is Being Reborn As A Polished Web Site For Good – caught my eye as I was nodding off last night (thanks so much for moving the web into my bedroom, Flipboard. No really.)

Breaking Down Polarization

by John Stauffer on Jan 24, 2012
Breaking Down PolarizationIn a recent Washington Post article, Polarized News Market has Altered the Political Process in South Carolina Primary, we peak into the news consumption habits of a South Carolina voter. Two election cycles ago the South Carolina native would read newspaper for political news, now she “settles in at her desktop to fire up Facebook.”

Will Facebook Shopping Become Common by 2015?

by Cynthia Boris on Jan 20, 2012
Will Facebook Shopping Become Common by 2015?

Facebook shopping makes sense. You’re on the site everyday anyway. You’re already tapped into the brands you like and they’re sending you coupons. So from there, it’s just a click away from actually making a purchase while still inside the walls.

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