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Social Media, Web Marketing:

Social media has finally entered the stage as an important player in overall rankings and the RKG team saw it coming! Our social team is a savvy and strategic group of minds that knows what’s up when it comes to Facebook,Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, and Google +. We help clients shape social strategy, prepare for the latest platform updates, launch promotions, and integrate social advertising and community management initiatives to reach and engage audiences, accomplish business objectives and gain conversions. And of course, being all things social – we can’t help but talk about it. Look for our successes and lessons learned right here.

A viral marketing idea using social media.

Configure Akismet to vanish Russian spam comments.

Monitor your brand across 22 social media sites.

A big public “Thank You!” to all our clients who made our Client Summit a smashing success!

I really like Gary Varynerchuk’s video on technology, goodness, and transparency in life and business.

I recorded my NEMOA presentation and posted video.

We receive more customer service requests for J. C. Penney.

Purple cauliflower is a purple cow.

YouTube captures the marketer’s imagination: a huge number of eyeballs, a perfect medium for communicating messages of any length, and a user base that is nanoseconds away from your store. But how do we get them to voluntarily watch a commercial?

When Facebook makes big changes that affect their users, do they test first?

Today’s Washington Post describes backlash against FaceBook’s Beacon advertising feature.

Whether your next release is a nifty widget or a workmanlike Holiday Gifts page you’ll probably want to take a look at Google’s Best Practices for Social Design.

Three Google news items of note: Open Handset, Open Social, and Reader share.

CoComment is a browser add-in that tracks responses to comments you leave on other people’s blogs.

The “I Am Hungry” Facebook app sold on eBay for $20,100.

My take on Quechup: lousy site, poorly executed. And spamming to boot.

On the social media sites it isn’t just what you know, but who you know.