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It prompts people to think about how they can make social networking sites work for them - Karen Purves

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. - Karen Purves

At last more people are coming out and discussing that there is a difference between the media and the story. And in this instance, the story is your content, your IP the way you demonstrate you're the expert. - Karen Purves

Looking for tools to help upload your videos to multiple video sharing sites? This is a list of tools & software to upload videos to many video sharing websites at one time. - Karen Purves

This programme uses social media is delivered via social media to help small business owners get to grips with social media marketing including integrating it into their off-line activities. This is much more than setting up profiles on sites. It covers how to develop content; making sure it flows into sales. - Karen Purves

Excellent 5 points to increase the clickthrough of blog posts on twitter - Karen Purves

With all the hype and people calling themselves social media experts, the reality is somewhat different - Karen Purves

GizaPage is a social network organizer that helps consumers and brands manage their online presence by consolidating their many social networking profiles side by side under a personalized URL - Karen Purves

The company wants to find common ground with authors, who have complained about copyright violations through services like Google Book Search. - Karen Purves

That'll shake up the makret a bit. Wonder whether they will vet for quality :) - Karen Purves

While most marketers recognize the importance of social media, many say they don’t understand it enough to integrate it correctly into their marketing strategies — and, <em>those who say they understand it</em> lack experience. Most marketers lack confidence in social media. According to a recent study, 86 percent of marketers recognize Social Media as an ongoing trend, but lack the knowledge needed to effectively implement tactics. - Karen Purves

With social media moving so quickly, how can companies and marketers stand a chance at keeping up with it all? First, admit that you can't keep up. Then, consider these fundamental principles to help you keep your sanity and reap a healthy return. - Karen Purves

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone. - Karen Purves

Interesting perspective and lots of potential to be ahead of the crowd - Karen Purves

Excellent Picture of Twitterverse. How enormous Twitter is and the impact on a firms marketing - Karen Purves

Interesting take on a potential development of social media. Every walk of life has some vetting agency or agencies, will social media be any different? - Karen Purves

We have been our own biggest barriers with regards to marketing. With social media, those barriers may tumble down as we deliver content that's in abundance within businesses. - Karen Purves

Lots is written about networking about what to do and how to do it. This article is different. It covers the criteria by which to choose a group to start with. Just going along is one method, but there is much more... - Karen Purves

Seth writes what others are just thinking and experiencing on twitter. We have to behave as we would offline if social media isn't going to turn into some list gathering exercise and turn people off - Karen Purves

"Currently it seems the top three services fighting for the “real time feed” crown are Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook. Dave Winer recently asked what FriendFeed would be if it didn’t pull in Twitter - the answer is simple: a service with very little activity. But for all three services, I find that there is nothing but confusion over the structure of how the three services work together and can imagine that mainstream Internet users face the same issues. I will use Friendfeed in the examples below because it faces the most mainstream issues but there are similar issues with all three services." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Ah, thanks, Ken. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

this is cool - I don't like having to sign into lots of apps so having facebook in Outlook is great! - Karen Purves

With such a decline in online advertising, the window of opportunity for small businesses decreases as large businesses direct their attention to social media marketing - Karen Purves

I don't agree with this post. Lead Generation is easy and can be tracked. This system is taught through MaxWeb - http://havemoreclients.com/maxweb... - Karen Purves

"Twitter, Adderall, lifehacking, mindful jogging, power browsing, Obama’s BlackBerry, and the benefits of overstimulation." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

Good article. - Luis Enrique León

Excellent review of the elements of social media. Refreshing to have commentary on social media that isn't tools based and opens up what really drives social media - Karen Purves

Although, content is relatively easy to produce most people don't. The 1:9:90 rule says that 90% of all users are consumers, 9% of all users are curators and only 1% of the users are creators. So, if you create your own content - it will be consumed by the consumers and the curators - so this has huge potential - Karen Purves

Good article with lots of practical advice - Karen Purves

Good insight into how anyone can set themselves up as marketing experts and then share their content when it isn't necessarily marketing focused. - Karen Purves

He says the obvious when no one else does! - Karen Purves

Interesting Article by Graham jones - Karen Purves