Social media is the process through which the promotion of any business takes place. Social media marketing gives an edge to you in the promotion of your site and helps you promote more traffic. It is a low cost method that can attract new customers to your website.

Social media blogs give you an advantage by teaching you about cutting edge technologies, products, services and websites. These blogs give you up to date information about different social media marketing platforms available on the web. They can also show you what your potential customers are looking for online right now. I would like to discuss some interesting social media marketing blogs.

The Social Media Experience

This social media site focuses on user participation online and the communication that takes place through social media sites. This site includes interesting blogs like:

1. Four Success Factors - Viral Videos as Sales Tools
2. Personal Information API Links Consumers Into Supply Chain
3. Fighting Social Media Spam in Social Networks

Social Marketing

This site helps online marketers and small business owners with their social media optimization and social marketing by giving them an opportunity to socialize in order to promote their products. Current posts on this site are:

1. Top Ranking Social Media Websites
2. Store Stacker How To
3. Stompernet Re-launch

Trendspotting

Users can get to know the latest trends of internet marketing research and the predictions that are taking place around the world. Different posts that are written on this site are:

1. Podcasting - Dead or Alive? Trendspotting Marketing Indicators
2. Where’s the Buzz: The iPhone Girl
3. Google Map with India Mapmakers

Lead Inspectors

This site offers an opportunity for bloggers, internet entrepreneurs and people working from home. If you know about a little-known deal that is taking place online, you simply submit your tips to this site as a recent post. You can also add comments to existing blogs. A few of the current posts are:

1. Carnival of Leads to Making Money Online
2. Who is Behind the Lead Inspectors?
3. Welcome Soapbox Radio Listeners

Ignite Social Media

This agency helps corporations utilize different social media tools, websites and other media marketing applications to increase their interaction with customers.

1. Social Media Posts That Are Igniting
2. Come See Us at Internet Summit ’08
3. How to Use Social Media Marketing to Promote Yourself as a Brand

A Thousand Cuts

This site offers posts with lessons learned through professional services and social media marketing. This site offers a different kind of view for consumers and retailers.

1. Good Morning Retailers - This is Your Wake-up Call
2. Mobile Marketing Poised for Take-off
3. Connections with a Purpose

Groundswell

Groundswell shows users that have gone far by transforming social technologies. A few of the most recent posts are:

1. Forrester Groundswell Awards Update
2. Groundswell Analysts From Jupiter/Forrester/US/EU: Yes, it Blends!
3. How to Win a Forrester Groundswell Award

Social Times

Here you can see different considerations of the social areas like Facebook and MySpace. The blogs on this website include news about social networks, applications and analysis

1. Open Social Foundation Launches
2. The New Software Distributor: Platform Owners
3. Offerpal Launches MySpace “Onboarding” Feature
4. LinkedIn Connects with CNBC

Debbieweil

The author of Corporate Blogging gives advice to users around the globe on executing customized social media techniques from blogging to emailing.

1. “Help! I Desperately Want to Blog and Make a Living at It”
2. A Little Late - Washington Post Highlights Marriott and Honest Tea as Local Corporate Bloggers
3. MSNBC’s Take on Corporate Blogging and Bloggers in Chief: Corporate 2.0 is In:

Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank offers social media experts and entrepreneurs editorials on the internet, technology and social media. Some of these posts are:

1. Video: Visiting the Mixx HQ Mixing Bowl
2. Angelsoft Aggregates 400 Angel Investors
3. Video: Brickfair Lego Fest 2008

All of these sites help users, entrepreneurs, bloggers and other marketers find updates on social media activities around the globe. These blogs help marketers learn different techniques to improve their social marketing campaigns. They build readers’ awareness about social media marketing, and improve social media techniques day by day.

References:

1. http://www.trendsspotting.com/blog/
2. http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/top-100-social-media-and-social-networking-blogs/
3. http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/social-networking/top-142-social-marketing-blogs-on-the-web/
4. http://www.blogs.com/topten/10-interesting-social-media-marketing-blogs/

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