One of my favorite magazines, Collide just posted a great new article on their website about “Making Your Social Network Work For You.” It is a great article and I thought you might be interested in reading it.
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This playbook walks you through setting up a social media strategy from A to Z. It’s an important read for anyone considering building an effective and comprehensive social media presence for their business.

My twitterific friend Carrie Lewis of the Humane Society of the US has posted a most helpful how to on her blog. It allows you to set up an iGoogle feed to follow your brand on the web from one convenient Dashboard. Check it out after the jump…

Today I was working on a website and added links to all their social media site pages. I didn’t want to just add text links so I did a search for some free social media icons. I found an awesome source for over 20 different packs. Here is a link to that page.
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A lot of people wonder how they can use social media to make their brand and their business more recognizable. Skittles is a company that has taken this to the extreme by making their entire site a mashup of all their social media sites.  What to chat about Skittles. Click that Chatter tab on their [...]

To be honest, most people know how to use Facebook Pages because they’re already USING facebook for themselves. If you have a profile on facebook (that you maintain), then you can easily learn how to maintain your organization’s public profile (that’s another term they use for Facebook Pages, just to confuse you) because their up-keep is the same, basically.

Stop leaving your thought-provoking comments on blogs all over the Internet without your beloved profile picture! It’s heinous (no, really, it is). Part of Social Media is branding yourself. Put a picture with the reputation so it’s easier for people to remember you. Enter Gravatar.com!

We use hashtags in Twitter to provide context (aka metadata) for our tweets. For example, say you’re attending, oh I don’t know, an awesome social media conference hosted by the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce. As you learn great new and innovative strategies you want to tweet them. Give it context by adding the hashtag FCCC assigned #fredsmc at the end of each tweet from today’s conference.

Social Media 204 – Strategic marketing ideas:

Innovative marketing ideas – How to use social media to augment your traditional marketing and make your brand more recognizable.

Here is a great video on how to get yourself started using Twitter.