This article is from The Buzz Bin.

“The primary challenge of successful social media is being able to listen and communicate with the broader community. This requires knowing who your community is, and where to find them online. To do this, engaging top influencers is essential, but how do you find them? ” Read article.

This article is from FWD Comedy.

“If you’re a comedy content creator and you haven’t set up a Facebook Fan Page for yourself yet, stop reading this and go set one up immediately. Ok, done setting one up? Good. Now I’ll explain why that was so important.” Read article.

This article is from In House Dollars.

“Something that makes Twitter unique is that it is so current. It is both relevant and interesting and allows us to share bits of information about our everyday lives with friends, family and associates. It is like a mini blog to keep up to date with what’s happening to people you know. In other words a social networking service. This blog will tell you more about Twitter and you can even regard it as a Twitter guide for legitimate online businesses.” Read article.

This article is from Snowgoose.

“Since the advent of Twitter, and more recently, Qwitter, we have all been able to feed our strange compulsion to know exactly how popular we all are. The race to see who can gain more followers has consumed some South African Twitter users way beyond what can be considered healthy. And Qwitter makes it worse. Now we also know when people un-follow us and what tweet caused them to take such serious action.” Read article.

This article is from Why Facebook.

“With the latest trojans, phishers, hackers and imposters floating around cyberspace, especially on Facebook, it’s no wonder members have cause for concern. I’ve put the following suggestions together for you to help protect yourself from identity theft, hacking and the likes…” Read article.

This article is from The Vancouver Sun.

“Facebook and Twitter topped the list of social networking sites favoured by businesses, according to a survey released Tuesday by Vancouver’s 6S Marketing. Some 61 per cent of companies using social media are tracking what is being said about them online, while 39 per cent don’t pay attention.” Read article.

This article is from BigTweet.com

“Tagging helps to organize and share our online information with others. By attaching one or more keywords to a Flickr photograph, for example, we group it together with others that have the same tag. Hashtags serve a similar purpose on Twitter, the social micro-blogging service. The aim is to bring some order to Twitter users’ published updates (“tweets”) and make it easier to follow a topic of interest. And you don’t necessarily have to be a Twitter user to get a benefit from hashtags.” Read article.

This article is from 4Entrepreneur.

“Another year and another great possibility! With the election of Obama to the presidency, there is Hope and all are looking for a great future.
But I am sitting here thinking of all the folks in social Media that are going to be frustrated again in their social Media marketing efforts. wondering why they are not getting the traction or friends that they thought they should. And the main reason is that they continue to make the same mistakes in Social Media as last year.” Read article.

This article is from Personal Branding Blog.

“I’ll admit it. Last week, I sent an @ reply to MC Hammer on Twitter.It’s not what you think. I wasn’t looking for fashion tips, or trying to break into the music world. Far from it! Actually, I had just seen a video on YouTube of a horse race where the winner was owned by MC Hammer – and during her amazing stretch run, a split screen showed MC Hammer and his friends going absolutely crazy with excitement.It was fun to watch, and since MC Hammer is on Twitter, I sent him a message with a link to the video. No real reason I did it… just felt like connecting. Luckily, I’m not the only one who does stuff like that!” Read article.

This article is from SEO Champion.

This is a great slideshow on how to leverage twitter and make it your own internet marketing social network strategy. It discusses how to leverage twitter for your own blog and business. Watch slide show.