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Every once and awhile I see someone tweet on Twitter on how to create a great Squidoo page. If you go over to freelancing sites like Elance, there are pages of people looking to hire someone who knows how to create a good Squidoo lense. Once upon a time there was great benefit by writing [...]

From Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/03/23/social-media-marketing-budgets/
Recently, we looked at media usage trends, which showed the rising numbers of media consumers that are using social networking sites, reading blogs, and viewing Internet video, among other forms of digital content. Not surprisingly, as these new forms of media consumption grow, so too grows the number of marketing dollars being [...]

When you look at a high-profile YouTube page like Barack Obama’s the first thought is they must of had some sort of partnership with youtube and an expensive design firm to layout the page. In truth, it’s just a little background manuplation. In regards to the design there’s not much you can edit in Youtube [...]

This is a great viral YouTube advertisement from Samsung:

Just goes to show, if you want to reach the internet demographic of 17-30, you just need cute animals .

Well, I had no idea this photo was going to take popularity so fast. I made it on Thursday evening and posted it to Reddit. It spread like crazy, ahh another 15 minutes of Internet fame for me. Currently my Flickr page has over 300,000 views .
Anyway, working on version 2, here’s the current [...]

Just out of curiosity today, I searched for sites containing Tube.com in the name. I decided to compile as many as I could. I ended up stopping a little over a hundred. Feel free to comment any major ones I might of missed. Of course there are a lot of pornographic sites, but there’s a lot of interesting ones to

Interesting news over at ReadWriteWeb.com. The usage of the social web increased by almost 56% in 2008. Pretty amazing stuff. I guess this is largely to do with all the news tools, and increased usage in social news sites. You can read more here:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_social_web_usage_tipped_2008.php

Ahh, a little monday humor for you: No Twitter for Hitler

ROI or “Return on Investment” is a large topic of discussion in the world of Social Media advertising. No one seems to have a quantifiable answer and the answer is sometimes answered vaguely. I’ve heard everything from “Well… it’s a long term strategy”, “It helps with your organic search”, “It’s really about brand reputation and management”, to “It’s really impossible to measure the results.”
The truth of the matter is, almost all of these things are correct. However, I disagree that it’s impossible to measure.

Great article over at small business trends:
http://www.smallbiztrends.com/2008/07/real-life-examples-of-business-owners-using-social-media.html/