Today I am attending Blog Carolinas a social media conference being held in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (that’s halfway between Raleigh and Durham). I am particularly interesting on hearing Andy Beal’s session on Online Reputation Management. Andy recently launched Trackur, an online reputation monitoring service (which I am interested in using for Zenoss).
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This is the funniest video on Social Networking ever. Thanks to Roebot for sharing.

{Updated: For some reason the Adobe file doesn’t render right, the picture is now linked to the original video.}
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Technorati Tags: Facebook, Humor, MySpace, parody, Social Media

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I was referred to the origins of the term Social Media Optimization(SMO) from an old ProBlogger article about Google’s treatment of blogs.
The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Technorati), [...]

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If you are a social media hound you probably have a Flickr Uploader, a web browser chock full of extensions, maybe a Twitter client like Twhirl, and a slew of other tools for interacting on the web. Maybe it’s time to consolidate all these tools into your web browser. That’s where Flock comes in it’s [...]

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Thanks to Tony Lawrence for inspiring today’s post. Hopefully these links don’t stink. 
Anthony Lawrence: Reasons I Don’t Like Social Media
Tools that once were valuable for pointing out the best of the web often become obsolete or spammy (you might say this about Digg). Tony’s example is StumbleUpon, a link sharing site that I love.  [...]

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