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Technorati. Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs.

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By June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[3] The name Technorati is a blend of the words technology and literati, which invokes the notion of technological intelligence or intellectualism. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry, with its headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist. Technorati uses and contributes to open source software. Technorati has an active software developer community, many of them from open-source culture. The site won the SXSW 2006 awards for Best Technical Achievement and Best of Show.[4] It was nominated for a 2006 Webby Award for Best Practices, but lost to Flickr and Google Maps.[5] Technorati was recognized as one of the “2010 Hottest San Francisco Companies” by Lead411.[6] Technology[edit] Reception[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ David Sifry (November 27, 2002). External links[edit]

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The Top Five Social Media Mistakes. Sure you're marketing with Twitter and Facebook, but are you doing it well?

The Top Five Social Media Mistakes

Here are the most common traps you might be falling into. No matter how you slice it, reaching out, connecting and having conversations with customers online costs a business owner time and money. Could your social-media efforts be yielding better results? Here's a list of the biggest mistakes I've seen business owners make with social media and how to avoid them. 1. When you go online and post in a status update area, do not just talk at people; speak with them.

Related: 20 Ways to Make the Most of Your Social Media Marketing Also, take a few minutes to stop by the "neighborhood" of each social site that you frequent and say hello, find out what your neighbors are up to and post a quick reply. 2. 3. 4. Too many entrepreneurs do what I call panic posting -- just posting for the sake of posting and sharing ideas that do not highlight their overall brand image.

Related: 10 Laws of Social Media Marketing 5. The Top 10 Marketing Sites for Social Media Marketing Trends Brian Solis. InShare744 Recently, the Pivot Conference team set out to learn more about the state of social advertising and the future ahead by conducting an industry survey of 230 brand managers, executives, and marketing professionals.

The Top 10 Marketing Sites for Social Media Marketing Trends Brian Solis

We will release the full report during the week of July 25th. Not all of the insights we learned will make it into the final report. However, I will share a few interesting findings as they come up starting with this one… The Top Marketing Sites for Social Media Marketing Trends We asked participants to share their favorite sites, blogs, and newsletters for learning the latest about social media marketing trends. 1. We also asked survey respondents about the role they play within their organization. Corporate Marketing Managers represented the largest group of individual respondents with 16%, but a three-way tie followed closely behind with participants representing Corporate Presidents/CEO’s/Principals, Directors of Marketing, and Agency Presidents/CEOs/Principals.

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