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Are you wasting your time in Social Media?

that's a very good question and one that I've asked myself occasionally but more importantly, one that has been asked of me plenty of times. What do you think? Is Social Media and Social Networking a complete waste of time?

My Answer:
It can be....

...If you are jumping from one social networking and social media site to the next and if you don't have a clear social marketing plan.

Over the last year I’ve tried, tested, explored, and stubbed my toes on many of the new social media networks. Of all the ones that I tried, three have emerged that I consider the “Golden Trio” in Social Media.

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RecognizeGood.com Launched in Austin

The Samaritan Counseling Center, 5425 Burnet Road, Ste. A, has created a new social media website called www.RecognizeGood.com where citizens can reward, acknowledge and promote others for their acts of kindness and unselfish charity. Developed through a partnership with Austin-based TyRex Group, the site helps honor the good deeds of others while supporting and promoting charitable giving to organizations. [more...]

Top 50 Social Media Resources for the1st quarter of 2009

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Building Quality Inbound Links

How to build Quality Inbound Links Original Article

Links are most important factors for reached to a High Page Rank in Google. Every link is count as a vote for a particular site. If you have more links, it will be very easy for your site to getting a High PR. Everyone want to get a High PR in Google. So linking is most important factor to get a High Page Rank. If you’re going to start building you need to understand, how to get quality links? Here you can read some tips to getting quality links.

1. Keywords in anchor text of inbound links
Keywords in Anchor text is the most important factors for getting a good page ranking It will be best if you put keyword in anchor text If not possible don't worry Links which have keywords in the anchor text are the more valuable than links without anchor text So try put anchor text in links if possible.
2. Links from Reputable Sites
Next Important factor is getting links from reputable sites. It will be good if the website that links to your site is reputable. Means, if you are getting links from the page which has high Page Rank it will be good for sites.
3. Links from .edu and .gov sites
Links from .edu and .gov sites are most valuable and important because these sites are the more reputable sites than other domains like .com, .net, .info, .biz or others. Links from these types of site can be difficult but these are the most important links.
4. Links from Similar themes
Getting links from similar theme is very useful. Google and other Search Engines always give more value of a links if this is coming from a similar site. So try to get links from the sites which are the related to your site.
5. Numbers of back links
More links mean more votes. Google counts every link as a vote for your sites. So try to get more and more links for your site. But don't forget about quality links because links from reputed sites gives more value. Getting some links from high page rank is a best but having tons of links from sites which have 0 PR is useless.
6. Surrounding text of a Link
Surrounding text of Links is important. Always try to links which look like a naturally links not artificial. Natural links are valuable than artificial links. Text around the links is indicates that links are relevant or not.

Twitter tools that can help you manage your profiles

Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.

Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.

- Do they ReTweet your tweets.

- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.

- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.

With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.

Twitter bird icon courtesy – Aravind Ajith

1. Mass Unfollow those who are not following you back with Huitter

I believe that there is no use in following people who aren’t reciprocating on Twitter. I use this tool weekly, to check for people who aren’t following me back. It automatically unfollows everyone who aren’t following you back. Huitter.

2. Automatically unfollow all inactive accounts you are following with MyCleener

This is yet another tool that will help us automatically unfollow all the inactive accounts based on when their last tweet was, and help you save your follow number. MyCleener

3. Find out common users following and being followed by two accounts

This is a great tool, because if you knew two power user accounts, say from your niche, then you can find out who are the guys they keep in contact with and who are the guys they are following and followed by with this tool. Running this tool with maximum five accounts will more or less reveal the “hidden” circle among them. Very effective if you know whom to stalk. Who follows whom

4. Manage your friends and followers with tags

This tool lets you rate and tag your friends and filter them on a timeline! You can also create custom groups of your followers and filter you timeline by that group. Very effective, but a little complicated to use. Twittangle

5. Unfollow people who have not updated within “X” amount of days

This is one of the best ones out there. It lets you find out the tweeps out of your followers who have not updated within a specified number of days (you can decide how many days is it) and lets you unfollow them. Extremely helpful when it comes to keeping your followers group healthy. Untweeps

6. Find out which Tweet made you popular and which one un-popular

One of the things that’s frustrating about Twitter is the un availability of a tracking mechanism. I personally would like to know what was that one tweet that got me popular and which is the one tweet after which people unfollowed me. Very effective in finding out what people expect from you and what they don’t. This tool helps you find just that. Tweet Rank (it’s German, you may want to translate it to English.)

7. Find out your ReTweet Rank

ReTweets I believe are a good measure to find out how popular your tweets are. This site picks up all the re-tweeted stories and grades you based on the number of re-tweets. Though its not sure what the algorithm is, its a nice tool to find out where you stand. Retweetrank

8. Find out who’s following who on Twitter

Well basically this tool helps you to find out if those people you are following are following you back or not. Shows you the number of friends, fans and followers. But I use it for a different purpose. If I find out a power user in my niche who is popular and is often re-tweeted, I would like to find whom he is following and what are his sources. Simply use this tool, give in the username and it will show who all are following him, his friends and fans. The good thing is that you can sort them by the number of followers they have. So if you want to steal a power users “precious friends”, this tool comes in pretty handy. Friendorfollow

9. Find out common followers between accounts

If you’re unsure whether to follow someone or not, just use this tool to find out if you have common interests and whether there are guys you are following in common. TwtrFrnd

10. Find relevant and interesting Twitter users to follow

As I said earlier, a good twitter life is all about following and keeping in company with the most active and interesting Tweeps. And Mr.Tweet is one damn tool that lets you connect with them. I mean, its a very simple concept executed in an awesome way. It shows interesting profiles and stats such as they are active or not, responds to tweets or not and whether they’ll follow you back. Mr.Tweet

Most of these tools require username and password, so use them wisely. Hope you like them.

UPDATE

Thanks to Mark, who introduced this tool called Tweepular to me. I wish I had known them before making this list. It is “the” best tool I’ve found so far. It has almost all the features I can think of for managing followers. Do check it out and you’ll quit using all others.

Are you using TWITTER?

Twitter has brought online marketing to a whole new level. with instant responses, real time micro blogging, it is like a chatting with people all around the world on the same chat screen.. it is really cool.

Twitter has brought a lot of convenience for marketers especially those looking for joint ventures, hook up with people with similar interest with just a simple search..

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Think.... do you think Twitter can help you in your marketing efforts?

Hooking up with potential target audience at the other side of the world is POSSIBLE.

Pinging Tools just for one click

• Pingomatic - the most popular. Pings several popular services and specialized services. Create a bookmark for each ping url.
• Pingoat - Pings a huge collection of 52 blogging services, including special services and non english tracking services. You can easily select all services by selecting the category.
• King Ping - Pings multiple services - 18 in all. Easy to check and uncheck boxes. And you can also create a bookmark with your settings.
• Blogflux Pinger - Pings 32 services, including several specialized services and language specific services too.
• Feedshark - Ping, submit, & promote your blog, feed, or podcast for free to multiple services.
• BlogBlip - Just enter the blog url and it will submit to 15 popular blog tracking services.
• Ping The Empire - Pings 18 common blog tracking services.
• Pingates - pings 37 services including several many Japanese ones
• Ping.In - notifies several Blog Search Engines and blog directories, much like pingoat.
• Autopinger - will automatically ping your selected blog services. Has a XML-RPC interface too.