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http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/02/07/building-a-business-from-twitter-meet-the-man-behind-the-accounts-you-see-every-day/ For anyone who is semi-active on Twitter, the chances are they have been followed, retweeted or received a direct message from someone who calls him or herself a ‘social media guru’. The characteristics are always the same: countless thousands of followers, which almost exactly mirror the number of people the person follows, with plenty of self-promoting keywords and hashtags filling out their profile.

Meet the man who makes six figures a quarter just from using Twitter

http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/12/23/how-to-use-foursquare-to-market-your-business-reach-a-new-audience/

How to Use Foursquare to Market Your Business & Reach a New Audience

When we think of social media and business, the first few things to come to mind are Facebook and Twitter. Yet, there is one mobile app that tends to get overlooked by businesses: Foursquare. True, it doesn’t have the same numbers that the likes of Facebook and Twitter can boast, but what it does have is a dedicated audience which has made over three billion check-ins.
by Dorie Clark | 11:00 AM November 14, 2012

Social Media Is Making You a Smarter Leader - Dorie Clark

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/11/social_media_is_making_you_a_s.html
Over the years, the integration versus unbundling debate has raged on within the advertising industry.

How agencies are reinventing the creative team in the social era | Central Desktop Blog | Smarter Collaboration

http://cdblog.centraldesktop.com/2012/09/how-agencies-are-reinventing-the-creative-team-in-the-social-era/

Why social media strategy should not start with a drive for Facebook fans

Why does every social media strategy seemingly start with a company cajoling people to come “like” their Facebook page? http://www.businessesgrow.com/2012/08/12/why-social-media-strategy-should-not-start-with-a-drive-for-facebook-fans/
http://www.simplyzesty.com/social-media/the-guide-to-search-why-the-future-is-social-mobile/#

The Guide To Search: Why Social & Mobile Are The Future

Search is currently in a transition period right now. As algorithms become more complex and the major search engines introduce new features, it’s clear that our expectations about how search should work and what it can do for us has risen with every new development. It’s not enough that it just suggests relevant information.

How to Classify Social Media for a better Online Strategy

The categorization of social media can be the following: http://www.squidoo.com/classifying-social-media

Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image

Would you like this (or any) content less if a robot had written it? The media is filled with news items abut how robots and algorithms are taking the work away from real, kind and personable human beings. That is one train of thought (personally, I'm offering a different perspective over on my We, Robots blog, which looks at augmentation over automation of all things robotics, 3D printing, telepresence and more). It's scary to think that one day, you may read an article in a magazine or newspaper or online that had no human intervention. No humanity, no personalized style and more. http://www.twistimage.com/blog/