What kind of results will show up? Areas where Twitter is particularly strong: news (as the recent events in Egypt made clear), technical information (eg. the code samples and tips often searched for by developers), and location-based searches that could show up results from Foursquare, Gowalla and other similar services from local searches.

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TED, the popular organization known for its thought leader conferences, today is launching a new social platform to augment its reach beyond the current five-day long, 1300-attendee conference. The platform, dubbed TED Conversations, will follow a Q&A-based format similar to Quora but with a few notable exceptions.

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TED Launches Quora-like Social Platform

Link building is one of the best ways to increase your site’s popularity and attain high rankings in the search engines. Links reflect Value and Popularity so the search engines give better search result rankings to sites that have more backlinks.

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In addition to considering it my business to know and understand any new relevant tool I didn’t want to miss the boat. I actually think that this has more to do with why people are flocking to Quora right now. I also think it is probably going to be the very thing that ruins it.

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Quora’s Two Greatest Challenges

Valuevine Connect (launching today) helps multi-location companies drill down into location-based analytics and keep up with the social footprint of each store across multiple sites. The platform lets companies add their store locations and see activity as a whole and for each location.

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Valuevine Connect: Location-Based Analytics

Social media is all about mass participation. Millions of people have Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles and blogs – the trick is finding the most influential people and engaging with them.

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Influence in Social Media: How to Find the Top Bloggers

Why Search Engine Optimization is absolutely vital, and great ways to start improving it.

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One of the more fascinating sessions was the first, which touched on how social media is offering a continuous feedback loop for organizations, particularly when it comes to customer service. As Pete Blackshaw (@pblackshaw), formerly of NM Incite but recently (as in Friday) named Nestle’s Global Digital Chief, said: "Customer service is THE #1 driver of organizational external communication.” The audience couldn’t seem to agree more.

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Bridging the Marketing/Customer Care Divide - Thoughts from #C32011

Imagine my surprise when I sat down to analyze my website traffic for January and I discovered that my 3rd highest source of referral traffic came from SocialMediaToday.com. The reason I was so surprised is that (as much as I hate to admit this) I had never heard of them before.

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How Google Analytics Introduced Me to Social Media Today

When showing the value of an online community you are building, do not forget about checking the search box. Typical questions about expected outcomes from a community may still center around reach metrics. How many people am I reaching? How many eyeballs am I catching with my messages? The comprehensive answer includes reach (unique visitors, community members, etc.), engagement (i.e., conversations among fans and your brand) and search rankings. And your search listings are related to reach and engagement.

Quora is a new social tool that defines itself as “continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” Creating an account is free. Any user can ask any question. In most cases, anyone may answer the question, and other users rate the answers.Users who ask questions can limit who may answer them to a specific people or one specific user.

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Quora Pushes to Be Social Tool for Q&A

Brett Relander from Tactical Marketing Labs describes how traditional media can be leveraged to include digital marketing and social media assets to reduce marketing costs and increase revenue in the digital age.

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The Future of Traditional Marketing

This is a short and simple guide to Search Engine Optimization [SEO]. Follow these quick tips to get on the road to rank your website or blog.

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30 Second SEO Tutorial

As I discovered with my initial forays, each question intelligently guides you to new people and new related topics and that keeps your interest in it strong. As more people use Quora, will the subject matter expertise and replication be diluted? Will it get corrupted with spammers and self-promoters?

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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?