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Social Networking Primer – Social Bookmarking
On February 4th, I commited to writing some of my experiences on Social Bookmarking. At a lecture at the last AffiliateSummit in Las Vegas, I recall the speaker suggesting that people pick one social bookmarking site and stick to it. I decided to survey the landscape, and do just this. I have to admit, though, as an entire branch of social media, I am generally disappointed. Here’s what I set out looking for: I wanted a social bookmarking service that would not only do all the cool social aspects, but also integrate easily into my browser and become a useful tool for my own day-to-day web surfing. This was clearly …
Social Networking Primer
I spend a great deal of time going to conferences on Search Engine Optimization, Affiliate Marketing, Webmastering and so forth. Not as much as some of my crazy friends, but often enough. For the last few years, the buzz has been “social networking”. For the first few years it was “building your own social networks”. Now it’s shifted to “taking advantage of existing social networks”. You have your FaceBook and LinkedIn for your “basic” profile. Then you have your blogs. Then you have Twitter for micro-blogging (or, as I explain it to new people – like “broadcast instant messaging, only less likely to be read”). Then you have your social …
