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Do Klout and Peerindex Really Matter?

  • May 26th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

They are amongst the most hotly discussed topics in the Social Media scene at the moment. How much Klout do you have? What’s your PeerIndex score? – are common questions that circle in the Social Media universe.
Some fiercely deny any relevance of such scores, while others appear to see it… Read more

How To Become A Digg Power User

  • May 25th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

As you may know, most of Digg.com is controlled by the top power users. Each time their stories hits the front page, it brings server crashing amounts of traffic for the webmaster.
If you want your stories to make it to Digg’s homepage, there are steps you can take to make… Read more

5 Travel Startups to Keep an Eye on

  • May 24th, 2011 by Damian Davila

Back in 1995, Expedia was a just a small startup that revolutionized the travel industry by becoming the premier website for online booking of travel arrangements.
Along the way come other similar websites such as Travelocity, Orbitz and many more. However, other than fancy marketing gimmicks, there has been no real… Read more

Is Twitter Changing the Face of News Coverage?

  • May 23rd, 2011 by SEM Contributor

No-one can deny the un-paralleled rise of social networking over the past five or so years, in fact it has been virtually impossible to get away from the headlines that show Facebook’s growing user-base (which seems to be virtually everyone on the planet, with the notable exception of China), the speed… Read more

Get Your Social Media Tasks Accomplished at WorkForFavor

  • May 23rd, 2011 by Annie Wallace

A unique social network, WorkForFavor.com, has been created with an eye towards helping business owners promote their businesses with little or no out of pocket expenses. Imagine promoting your business by having hundreds, or thousands, of people becoming your friends on Facebook, or sending tweets to others about the benefits of… Read more

Meet the Color iPhone App

  • May 19th, 2011 by Damian Davila

A while ago I wrote about the fast rise of Instagram, an app that lets iPhone users post pics online and share them through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In late March 2011, Color entered as one of the latest player in the photo sharing market.

According to the… Read more

How Far Does a “Like” Take You?

  • May 18th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Where has marketing gone? Is the day of big budget corporate executives debating the 4P’s gone? The same marketers that once scrambled to drive purchase decisions are now trying to simply acquire likes. Are they really that valuable? Well according to a Chompon.com research report, a Facebook like is worth a… Read more

Why Your Business Needs to be More Social

  • May 17th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

In the mid nineties, a few businesses started informational Web sites. The Luddites looked on bemused, thinking to themselves that this ‘internet thing’ will never catch on. A few years later those same Luddites were sneering at those business owners who were setting up full e-commerce Web sites. This time they… Read more

Two Ways to Find Free Music on iTunes

  • May 17th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

In recent years, iTunes has become one of the most common ways to store a music library. Just about everyone has an iPad or some other technological gadget that works with iTunes, so it follows that it would be a popular program. This also means that just about everyone wants to… Read more

Three Must Have Social Media Tools for the Social Media Master

  • May 16th, 2011 by SEM Contributor

Social media is endless. It’s everywhere. While there are numerous people out there emphasizing the harm social media has reaped on our attention spans and patience (they may have a point), no one can deny it prevalence. Social media has taken the world by storm.
Our lives are dominated by Twitter… Read more