social media’s secret weapons

Social Media’s Secret Weapons

By: Crystal Vilkaitis: 3 Elements, LLC

Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social Bookmarking Crystal Vilkaitis, 3 Elements, 3elementsmarketing.com

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_mediaSocial Media's Secret Weapons: Social

BookmarkingSocial Media's Secret Weapons: Social Bookmarking Crystal Vilkaitis, 3 Elements, 3elementsmarketing.com

What is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a method for

Internet users to store, organize, search,

and manage bookmarks of web pages on

the Internet.

Sites:

•StumbleUpon.com

•Digg.com

•Delicious.com

•Reddit.com

Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarkingSocial Media's Secret Weapons: Social


Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social


Hidden Sites: StumbleUpon.comWhat 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!Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social


Example of StumbleUpon.com Home



Example of StumbleUpon.com: Share



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



Example of Digg.com



Basic overview of other Bookmarking

SitesDelicious - 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. Social Media's Secret Weapons: Social


Tools and Tips

Share This – sharethis.com

Email Signatures

Consistent Branding



Tools for Tracking

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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