Monday, October 22, 2012

Social Media Marketing Sites

Mashable.com

Mashable.com is a social media website. You can access the website on your own, or you can sign in using your Facebook or Twitter account. There are many different types of social media news that you can access from this website, which are divided into categories based on genre. The tabs are labeled Social Media, Tech, Business, Lifestyle, Water cooler, Entertainment, US & World and videos. These lead to different kinds of stories based on these categories. For example, under US & World you can find stories about politics and government, while under Water cooler you can find comics, memes, pictures and videos. Meanwhile, on the rest of the page you can find the top stories that are happening that day, the highest trending topics that are being discussed and the top photos and videos that are being viewed on this website. This is a good website to use to keep up with the world.


Readwriteweb.com

Readwriteweb.com is now called readwrite.com. The purpose of this social media marketing website is to keep yourself updated on the daily news of technology and its users. For example, there are about five to seven articles every day going back a couple of days that are visible on the home page. These articles come a variety of different topics, such as Microsoft, Apple, International, Photography and even posts from the people directly from ReadWrite.com. When you click on an article, the website takes you to a page with the article where you can comment on what was written and learn a little bit more about the author. At the bottom of the page, you can find links to past articles that have been published. You can also like the articles on Facebook or share them on Twitter or Google Plus. This website deals with more articles strictly in the media world.


Thenextweb.com

Thenextweb.com is a social media website that deals with a lot of the legal parts of being in the media. The articles that are being featured are ones about different companies and how much money they are making (or not making) and the new kinds of software that is now readily available for certain technology. There are three main general separations between the articles: Latest, Popular and Discussed. Latest is the newest, Popular is what is being viewed the most and Discussed is what is talked about the most. There are also articles that divided by different categories, much like the first two websites. That way you can find a number of different articles on almost any media-related topic. Thenextweb.com is also partnered with three different companies, which are called Dyn, Net DNA and Pivotal Tracker. There are also several other editions of the website available in Africa, Europe, Asia, the UK, Australia, Latin America, the Middle East and Canada.


Adage.com

Adage.com, which is short for “Advertising Age”, is the last social media website on the list. This website is used as the online version of the Advertising Age magazine. It has everything that the print version of the magazine and much more. The website has access to articles about the media, global news, news about the agency and much more. The site also has links to a number of different social media-related blogs. Some of these have been made by the magazine’s editorial team, while others were made by members of the Ad Age community. The website also has a bookstore that is available to the public. Ad Age also looks at the most creative advertisements and picks the best one of that day. AdAge.com keeps its readers in the loop about their partners as well. They are partnered with Automotive News, B to B, CCN Money, Crain’s New York Business, MSNBC.com and shopautoweek.com.

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