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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.

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.