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There are some very striking social media icons out there, and they can only add to a website, as well as showing you are aware of social media and its importance in everyone’s online life.
Smashing Apps have put together a full range of social media icons for you to plagiarise, enjoy, [...]

The latest report from the University of Masschusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing research may initially seem to imply that the largest Fortune 500 companies are adopting social media (e.g. Twitter and Facebook) more quickly than their smaller counterparts in the Fortune 500.
However, the reality is that whilst 35% of the Fortune 500 companies tweet and [...]

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As 2009 rolls to a close, everyone is considering the changes in the world of search during the year. So, we have gathered together the views from some of our experts in the Clickthrough Marketing office of what we may see in 2010 as a result of those changes.
Adam Symes, Head [...]

As more of us become reliant on social media, not just for marketing campaigns but as a means to find out news, engage with peers, and so on, the need for search engines which specifically bring blog posts, Tweets, Diggs, social bookmarks etc to us has increased.
So, we set off to find some of the [...]

Having spent much time over the years in forums, it strikes me that forums are being ignored by many in their internet marketing mix with the dash to incorporate Twitter and other social media.
However, there is much value in forums, which cannot be replicated in such depth using the likes of Twitter or Facebook. It [...]

Continuing with our look at Twitter for those who are new to it all…..
Qwitter – if you want to know who has unfollowed you, and what the post was that you wrote just before they decided to depart, Qwitter only requires that you enter the Twitter name plus an email address and it will email [...]

In ye olde days, that was a given. But now, with social media and networking on the increase, the answer has changed.
Whilst you may spend hours carefully crafting your marketing messages and adverts, designing campaigns, implementing and monitoring your branding, your customers can take apart all of this within moments in the social networking sphere.
One [...]

RT @unmarketing Look at all these freaking soc media icon sets for blogs! http://bit.ly/1501rg just awesomesauce!
If you use social media tools such as Twitter etc, take a look at these icon sets which you can use to gather followers and grow your community / list through your blog or website. Neat!

Now this is one neat tool for anyone wanting to monitor certain terms on Twitter. Tweetbeep markets itself as Google alerts for Twitter, and it sure seems to be!
You may want to keep an eye open for mentions of your Twitter name  (although Tweetdeck and similar software also provide this functionality) or look for potential [...]

Habitat managed a major faux pas this week when they misused the hashtags on Twitter in an attempt to jump on the trending bandwagon.
Topics that trend on Twitter are those where hashtags are used to create a ‘channel’ to allow users to easily follow all tweets on that particular topic.  For example #MJ has been [...]