Hidden underground networks that will give you more qualified visits to your website than Twitter and Facebook combined, and how to leverage them for you business and blog.
1. Social Media’s Secret Weapons
By: Crystal Vilkaitis: 3 Elements, LLC
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2. What is Social Media?
Social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news,
information and content; it's a fusion of sociology and technology,
transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is
the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers
into publishers.
Sites:
Twitter
Linked In
Facebook
Stumble Upon
Digg
MySpace
Ning
And many, many more
Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
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3. What is Social Bookmarking?
Sites:
•StumbleUpon.com
Social bookmarking is a method for
•Digg.com Internet users to store, organize, search,
and manage bookmarks of web pages on
•Delicious.com the Internet.
•Reddit.com
Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
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4. Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social
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5. Hidden Sites: StumbleUpon.com
What is StumbleUpon.com?
Why would a business use Stumble Upon?
Downloading the Stumble Upon Toolbar
Site Details:
•Creating Your Profile
•Friends versus Subscribers
•Favorites and Reviews
•Sharing Sites
•Comments when sending sites
•Comments into Testimonials
•Increase your web traffic!
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6. Example of StumbleUpon.com Home
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7. Example of StumbleUpon.com: Share
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8. Hidden Sites: Digg.com
What is Digg.com?
Why would a business use Digg?
Site Details:
•Creating Your Profile
•Finding Friends
•Submitting an article, image, video
and sharing with your network
•Don’t forget to comment!
•Increase your web traffic!
•Diggnation
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9. Example of Digg.com
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10. Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social
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11. Basic overview of other Bookmarking
Sites
Delicious - Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere
Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return
Discover news bookmarks
Technorati - Collects, organizes, and distributes the global online conversation.
Founded as the first blog search engine
Google Reader - Create an account and subscribe to favorite sites and blogs
RSS Feeds - RSS (Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication) is a format for
delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and
other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants
it.
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12. Tools and Tips
Share This – sharethis.com
Email Signatures
Consistent Branding
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13. Tracking
Tools for Tracking
•Google Alerts (google.com/alerts
•Google Analytics
(google.com/analytics)
•Google Page Rank
(toolbar.google.com/ )
•Compete.com
•Alexa Toolbar
(www.alexa.com/toolbar )
•Shareholic Toolbar
(shareaholic.com)
•How Sociable?
(howsociable.com/ )
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14. Q&A
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15. Thank You!
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