Thursday, September 10, 2009

Social Media in the News



My personal career goals include the fields of marketing and advertising. Social media can be an important tool in these realms of business. These articles display up-and-coming marketing techniques which can be used with Web 2.0 and social networking sites.

This Lansing State Journal article highlights the importance of using social media as a tool for marketing. However, many realms of social media are new to companies who are set in their old ways of marketing techniques; they are just now experimenting with new ways to reach their audience.

This article (brought to you by building43) provides a breakdown of SEOmoz's (a marketing, consulting, and company optimization firm) top 30 social media sites, and illustrates approaches corporations can take to improve their marketing strategies in a world run by Web 2.0.

This article begins by tracking the importance of having a presence on the internet. Because the internet is so full of various websites, having a website merely to advertise is pointless; the chance of gaining popularity with that particular location in the web will be minuscule. Therefore, social media seems to be the next logical step for getting a company's name out into the eye of the public.

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