The Social Media 101: Business Use of Social Media Marketing
For those of you following this series on the business use of social media and implementing the tips on using social media in your business, this article and research firmly supports your efforts at using social media to interact with the community and promote your brand and business.
Mixx it Up with Social Bookmarking Site, Mixx
Mixx is a user-driven social bookmarking site with content easily viewed by subject and location. Users gain karma points by submitting and commenting on articles and can aspire to become a Super Mixxer, complete wih a badge and super powers.
Create Your Own Social Network with Ning
Would you like to create an online community for your customers, discuss industry topics with peers, or facilitate an educational environment for a specific subject? Then check out Ning, where you can create your own, free social network in matter of minutes.
Social Networked Blogging with Live Journal
Blogging meets social networking at LiveJournal. Users can select a theme for their journal, add a profile page, upload photos, post via the web, text messaging, by phone or by instant messaging and then socialize with other users.
Moderated Social Media News Portal: Propeller
AOL’s social bookmarking site, Propeller, is a moderated social media news portal with a “cleaner” feel than many social media sites. While similar to Digg, Propeller differs in that paid editors select the top stories and story popularity is shown with an average between 1 and 10.
CNBC Gets LinkedIn
If you aren’t already one of the 27 million people that have LinkedIn to the professional social networking site and would like to join, it’s simple and free. Create a professional profile that summarizes your accomplishments and provides friends and associates insight into your current situation and then get networking.
Stumble it with StumbleUpon
Beyond the obvious ability to gain another piece of web real estate to promote your business with the profile page and website links, StumbleUpon provides the ability to join users communities that have interests relating to your business. Contributing quality, accurately tagged content that can be served to the users of these communities can be a source of very targeted traffic for your site.
