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Last March, the Chicago Tribune assembled a four-person social media task force to help modernize the stodgy media giant by integrating the bright and shiny social media world of Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr and Twitter.

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You probably already get social media, and see its value, and think it’s really nifty cool. But if you can’t articulate the benefits and the return on the effort, and several other little details to the folks upstairs, it’s going to be hard.

Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article’s outgoing links will be “nofollowed.” The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link is sending to another site.

A new class of specialized tools to meet the new viral analytics needs. Traditional analytics tools were historically focused on providing information relating to page views, time spent on the site and search engine ranking.

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A list of 5 social aggregators that stand out as far as being the most useful & beneficial.

Social networks are all the rage and many of my posts at OnlineMarketerBlog recommend social tools for businesses. Here are 21 things your business should consider before starting a social network:

Stories of failure are more common than success stories when it comes to social media. But since this is a new platform, you can expect a lot of mistakes while people are "getting it". I've listed 6 common mistakes companies make when they enter social me