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		<title>The Real Value of Social Networks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a while, I was nothing more than a social network hater. To me, social networks seemed like a ploy for those with so-called &#8220;notoriety&#8221; to massage their egos just a little bit more and provided no real benefit to anyone. After signing up for almost every social network in existence, I can say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=95&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter&#8230; I&#8217;m following you&#8230; :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So, what are you doing?&#8221;, it&#8217;s one of the first questions we&#8217;re often asked by our friends and family. Even if the answer is just &#8216;mowing the lawn&#8217; or &#8216;cooking dinner&#8217;, it&#8217;s interesting to us. It makes us feel connected to each other&#8217;s lives. Unfortunately, most of our day-to-day lives are hidden from people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=91&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Twitter Help Your Cause Raise Money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can nonprofit groups really raise money on the social-networking site Twitter? The author and social-media consultant Beth Kanter has studied the history of fund-raising efforts on the site and answers with an unequivocal yes. Writing on Beth’s Blog, Ms. Kanter points to several examples of successful fund raising-efforts on Twitter. In one case, a heart [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=87&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Optimization : 11 Rules of SMO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Increase Your Linkability : Think blogs, content, aggregation &#38; linkbait. 2. Make Tagging and Bookmarking Easy : Include calls to action for users to tag, bookmark and Digg your stuff. I’d suggest the Sociable Plugin if you have a WordPress powered blog. 3. Reward Inbound Links : List blogs which link back to you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=69&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Got Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://smoscw.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/got-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is a new social networking site. I agree with others that say it has the potential to get hundreds if not thousands of hits to your site if you have the ability to post interesting “updates”. Sign up at Twitter now and let’s keep in touch. Here’s how wikipedia describes the service: Twitter is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=64&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Build a Network on Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m spending so much time on Twitter because I feel it&#8217;s such an important tool for Network Weavers. Someone asked me how to get started on Twitter. Some thoughts: 1. Figure out what you want: learning, marketing yourself or something, getting to know new people, just mucking around? 2. If you know other people on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=60&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networks Drive 30% Of Online Video Viewing</title>
		<link>http://smoscw.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/social-networks-drive-30-of-online-video-viewing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re marketing through online video, you really need to be hitting the social networks like Digg, etc. Search engines provide lots of traffic, but the social networks EQUAL them! It’s a way for the small fry to compete. They’re sending 30% of the traffic to videos! Wow! According to the report, in April 2007, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=55&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://smoscw.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a virtual explosion of social networking sites in the past couple of years. Even the big players like Google, Yahoo and MSN are getting into it.With so much interest in how social networks work, one begins to wonder if there is marketing potential within these social networks? I’ve been watching social networking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=50&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiters Using Social Media</title>
		<link>http://smoscw.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/recruiters-using-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out these stats from a personal contact in the recruiting field. What social networks do recruiters use to source candidates? 1,022 use LinkedIn (a whopping 97%) 391 use Facebook (37%) 228 use MySpace (22%) 28 use Friendster (2%) 17 Use Hi5 (1%) 13 use Bebo (1%) You had better upgrade your social network pages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=47&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is MySpace a Social Network?</title>
		<link>http://smoscw.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/is-myspace-a-social-network/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySpace is the largest social network in the world, with more than 122 million members. However, the company does not necessarily want to be known as king of the social networks. As some industry observers— including some at eMarketer—have questioned social media’s financial prospects, it is enlightening to note that even the top company in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smoscw.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5033291&amp;post=44&amp;subd=smoscw&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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