Social media channels such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare are being used by a large proportion of the population and help us to communicate, free of charge, and keep in touch with our friends. In a short span of time, these virtual places are becoming centers of exchange of views, information and experiences. It is here that customers and users seeking information about a service before using it: they inform, comment, leave reviews and opinions.
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Twitter to Kill off its Old Version

Twitter is one of the most powerful micro blogging and social media site, which is having a large number of users as of present. Twitter is being used for a large number of purposes and is one of the most easy to use social media site. Twitter has finally decided to take off its old version and to migrate completely to the new one.  The old version of Twitter would be killed off this week, which has been revealed in an official tweet.   All the users using the old version of Twitter would be migrated automatically to the newer version.
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Major Types of Social Media Sites

Social Media is the real buzz of Internet and is constantly evolving all the days. Those who are internet savvy cannot ignore the contributions of the various social media sites.  There are various types of social media sites that suits for different purposes. Social Media really helps you in connecting with other people over the internet in a much efficient and effective way.

Social Media have already proved to be one of the best advertising platforms and since it is easy to target a specific audience through social media, most of the online advertising or marketing companies gives top priority to social media sites. Social Media is all about engagement and mutual encouragement. You may not taste success in social media channels overnight, rather it requires constant and long-time involvement to be successful.
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The current technology driven world has forced local law enforcement agencies to turn more into social media tools to keep the public informed and even solve various crimes. County Sheriff’s Office in Washington has been using and utilizing a Facebook page for about a year which has around 1,000 followers. The major job of the page includes up-to-date information about crime, information about wanted suspects and significant arrests. The County Sheriff’s office posts alerts about robberies, suspects, flooding, drugg arrests and all type of crime activities that is happening around. Photos of the most wanted criminals and suspects are also posted on the Facebook page, so that the public would be kept more aware about the crime activities in their localities.
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Social Media Marketing is one of the hottest thing in the area of online marketing and is also considered as one of the best viral marketing strategy that exist on the internet. Social Media Marketing have always complemented the traditional SEO activities and if you are really serious about your online marketing campaigns, then both of them should go hand in hand.  Most of the internet marketing professionals make the serious mistake of excluding social media marketing from their SEO activities.  Some online marketing guys also interpret social media marketing and social media optimization as the same, but the fact is that both are entirely different.
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Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging and social media platform which is being used by a large number of users. This is one of the most amazing social media platform to share your ideas to a large number of fellow Twitter users. Different people use Twitter for different purpose such as business, information sharing, chit chat etc. + READ MORE


Propeller.com, another small social bookmarking and news aggregating site is set to stop it activities from October 2010 onwards. Propeller.com is owned by AOL- Netscape and works very much similar to the way the old Digg did. Users can share stories / news, vote for other stories and also comment on stories. Based on the number of votes the stories would be displayed on the front page.
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A Social Media Professional or consultant is usually entrusted with the strong reponsibility of enhancing the online presence of a website through various social media channels. Social Media Marketing is an interesting job once you have hit the right track and are in full flow. Social Media Marketing has also become one of the best career opportunities for those interested in online marketing and actually there is a shortage of quality social media consultants world wide.

To be a successful social media professional, there are many things that you need to work on. Here I would like to provide 10 points that I think is essential for anyone aspiring to become a successful social media marketing professional.
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5 Useful Twitter Monitoring Tools

Twitter is the most fastest growing social media site and has a large number of users. Twitter is so easy to use and most of the guys use Twitter for various purposes. Usually Twitter stats becomes too complex and makes it  difficult for us to manually monitor the tweets and hence we rely on various Twitter monitoring tools available.

A large number of Twitter monitoring tools are available and I have tried  a few of them. At last I have hand picked the top 5 of them, which I feel comfortable and easy to use. They may not be in the order listed below, but these 5 Twitter monitoring tools are always there in my browser’s bookmark.
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Bad Phase for Digg?

Digg seems to be going through a bad phase these days due to some reasons and the most recent departure of its CEO Jay Adelson has added to its long list of woes. The 39 year old Jay Adelson has decided to call it a day with Digg and is looking ahead for other better prospects. Jay Adelson have played an integral part in making Digg one of the most popular and efficient social news sites and his absense is sure to make some negative impact on Digg.
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