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What are your top books, articles or blogs you've read on social media?
@clarashih tweets about this pieces from socialmediatoday - http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/190541 - which list the blogger's (Carrie Morgan) top 8 books on social media:
The Facebook Era by Clara Shih
Problogger by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett
Facebook Marketing by Steven Holzner
Twitterville by Shel Israel
Marketing in the Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
The Digital Handshake by Paul Chaney
Twitter Power by Joel Comm
Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
What do you think?
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4 Answers
The clear leaders in amongst social media blogs are Mashable, Techcrunch, and ReadWriteWeb. Others that often have hidden gems include CenterNetworks, ChrisBrogan, DanZarrella, and Soshable (mine).
Blogs:
Mashable ,
britopian.com
scottmonty.com
Books:
New Rules of Marketing & PR (David Meerman Scott)
World Wide Rave (David Meerman Scott)
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2010/02/18/link-bait-case-study
This is how a pro uses social media. You use social media to create buzz around an event, promotion or article. Here is another good one from Marketing Sherpa from last year http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=31471# Marketing Sherpa is your best bet for articles about the latest trends in Internet Based Marketing.
In addition to some of the above, I quite like: http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/
http://www.insidefacebook.com/
http://www.emarketer.com/
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