Social Media Posts That Are Igniting- 9/19
September 19, 2008
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These are our top picks for the week in the social media marketing landscape. Enjoy 
Ask.com Re-Launches AskKids.com Search Engine for Kids
Bill Hartzer gives a great review of the new Ask.Kids search engine. It would be interesting to see how else they could monetize the results. Kids could easily be marketed to, but not in this way.
50 Ways to Take Your Blog to the Next Level
This is a great look at how to increase your blogs content, design, and readership.
Top 5 Reasons Why Blogging Rocked Our World
Interesting account of how blogging has changed the world we live in today. This post could probably alternatively be named Top 5 Reasons Why Blogging Can Benefit Your Brand.
Social Media: You Are Wearing Me Out
How many social media sites are you on? Do you check them constantly or do you focus on only a few. It seems some people are being worn out by too much social media. The suggestion in this post is to focus your interests. Marie Adam’s comment that follows the post also targets how social media marketers can benefit from quality vs. quantity as well.
Ad Agencies Team Up on Social-Media Standards
“SMAC’s aim is to create a set of standards for social-media advertising, sometimes called “engagement advertising,” that mirrors the standards set for print, television, and display ads.” Only time will tell how effective this is, considering that most advertising channels on the web are reluctant to standardization.
StumbleUpon undergoes some changes
StumbleUpon has undergone some changes as of late. Along with a new redesign of sorts you can now have more than 200 friends.
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Hi Kailee, thank you for the link love and I’m glad you’ve found Blogsessive’s post worthy of being shared with your audience!
About the alternate name… it really depends on what you’ve benefited from blogging. The post is written from a more “personal development” point of view… better human beings. But of course, business blogging has has its success stories too.
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Kailee, thanks for sharing the link to my post - Social Media: You Are Wearing Me Out
@Alex I agree, and I didn’t mean that as literally as it sounded in the post. I guess sometimes I just can’t help but read things from the social media marketing point of view. Åll of the reasons that you listed and how it helped benefit human beings is also why brands can benefit from it. It gives businesses an outlet to really connect with their consumers by showing empathy, thought processes, etc.
Great post and I look forward to reading more from Blogsessive