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Social networking sites like Facebook are effective outlets for finding new customers, readers, and colleagues; but most people stop at building a profile and never discover the other powerful marketing tools Facebook has to offer - most of them for free. Let’s look at a few of them in this series, beginning with Facebook Pages… Facebook Pages If you are a business, you should have a Facebook page in addition to a profile. Using a page tells Facebook users that you are se... more

We researched many crowd-sourced news aggregator sites to see which ones were “musts” for our content contribution. We got a feel for each of the sites, and below are a list of our top picks. Again, these picks are in no particular order. Social Media Power is not affiliated with any of these sites, and we simply provide this list as a courtesy to our readers. The best way to discover your favorites is to visit each site individually. Please note that these sites are for “genera... more

A Web-based news aggregator is a Web site that pulls and displays news from many different sources, including RSS feeds and blogs. Users can create custom pages that only display news from specific sources or topics of the user’s choosing. A couple popular Web-based news aggregators are Google Reader and PageFlakes . A crowd-sourced news aggregator is a Web-based news aggregator that allows its users to determine the popularity of a news story or blog entry through various types ... more

FeedBurner offers many options for optimizing your RSS feed. But do not stop at simply burning your feed, take advantage of the many ways you can tap into the power of FeedBurner - for free! First, get an account with FeedBurner.com and burn your feed if you haven’t already. All you need to do to burn your feed is the URL of the feed. If you are using WordPress, the URL to your feed is “http://www.yourdomainname.com/feed/.” FeedBurner provides good documentation to help ... more