The Integer Group and the Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council understand the importance of social networking in marketing. That’s why they’ve dedicated themselves to making sense of it all, beginning with a five-part series called entitled Untangling the Social Web: Insights for Users, Brands and Retailers.

FanMix 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

The following post comes from our Inbound Marketing Channel sponsor HubSpot. The FBI recently posted a Request for Information (RFI) for a “social media application.” But, it was really a request for a social media monitoring application. Why? Because the FBI recognizes what many inbound marketers already know and many others are discovering: There’s gold in them thar social media data.

First of all, this isn’t new. We have had a social media-related ethics code in place since 2005. At that time, it was the Blogger Outreach Code of Ethics. It helped us decide what was ‘best-practice’ and what wasn’t. These are our ethics not something handed down through culture or a governing body. We simply believed that social media’s true power was grounded in trust – trust between bloggers and their readers; between brands and their followers; between marketers and customers.

Do you prefer visual results over text? If you do, then you’ll love these visual search engines, which display images and website snapshots as opposed to text snippets. There’s not much to say about these search engines. You simply enter your query, press enter (or click on search), and view your results. So let’s take a look at 5 amazing visual search engine results. Watch the cube fill up as your results fall into place. You can use the arrow keys to flip the cube, shift+mouse to drag

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the Super Bowl will be the biggest, one-day, social media event of the year. Last year, during the final minutes of the game, fans posted 4,064 Tweets per second. This broke the sporting record which had been held by the World Cup, but it didn’t break the all-time record of 6,939 TPS. That happened the moment Japan welcomed in the new year.

This guest post is by Herman Dias of SEOsoeasy.com. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the Google Panda update and what it did to many low-quality websites last year. It was more like a Google sniper attack on all the spam and rubbish sites. Honestly, this does not seem to be the end of the Panda: there is more to come, and we need to watch out. The whole reason Google made these changes was to give Google users a good experience when they use Google search, and why