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Links 7/29/2008

Why Is Stuart Elliott Shilling On Facebook?

Hundreds Of Bloggers To Interact With On Digg, StumbleUpon

48 Cool Social Media Sites

Social Media Ad Spending Hasn’t Caught Up With Hype

Cuil Stumbles Out Of The Gate

We’re YouTubing & Metacafe-ing Dog Gone It

My Creative Team has just finished production of a video for client, Pet Sitters International. It’s about what happens when you leave your dog with the neighbor’s kid instead of with a professional petsitter. The MetaCafe player is embedded above.

Connections Revisited

I asked what social networks you are a part of and several of you have waded in. Let’s see what’s working for our readers:

Ashleigh Hunter of Bank of America wrote:

Sending Out An RSS

Photo By photopia (Flickr)

RSS is a friend of mine. Subscribing to feeds helps me keep current on a wide variety of blogs and topics. So, today I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on using RSS.

Sharing With madKast

Have you noticed the little green “Share” icon that recently has popped up to the right of my blog headlines? That’s for a new service from madKast. I’m giving it a test drive to see if I like it better than the previous bookmarking widget I was using.

StumbleUpon Two-Step

StumbleUpon can be an enormous traffic generator for bloggers and marketers. I use it all the time. And I just tested what I call the StumbleUpon Two-Step technique of driving traffic, and it also worked well to drive traffic. Let’s review how I did it.

Social Media Corrupted

Social media is supposed to be democratic. You like something, you Stumble it or Digg it. But money always follows successful tactics. There is a site that pays you to Stumble and Digg links. Read more about it here. Social Media Corrupted

Holiday For Charity Gains Traction

Our Holiday for Charity effort is gaining traction. Last week we mentioned it in our enewsletter, and we distributed a news release via PRWEB. If you visit our release, please feel free to share it through StumbleUpon or your other social networks.Additionally, I posted an article on social site, Gather.