If your job or current tasklist includes building a social media strategy for your organization (or yourself, personally), you should be thinking about the branding created by the profiles you create.

Social Networking sites can be much more than fun distractions and a way to keep track of your friends. Used correctly they can be very powerful List building tools.

Generate Awareness - Simply to inform the market that a commercial offering exists. This is often combined with other objectives.

Obviously there are many ways to get links from social media. One such technique is to establish profiles on various social media, and link from your profile on those sites, back to your web site.

How we love these lists. Again and again we see people put lots of hard work and insights to develop these lists that are timeless.

This is a treasure trove folks. Twenty free ebooks on social media and how to use this new form of community building and sharing for marketing purposes.

There is no cookie cutter approach to social media marketing. Your strategy will depend on 1) Your goals - SEO, PR, traffic ( to drive awareness? advertising click-thus?

Most bloggers would love to get more traffic with social media, regardless of how much they’re getting now. Unfortunately, a relatively small percentage of bloggers ever see significant results.

Social media aggregators are web sites which amass what you do on social networks or websites and centralize it all in one location.

It’s easy to set up an online community. Buy some hosting, pick the tool of your liking and without too much effort you should have set up a ‘community’ in no time.

You probably already get social media, and see its value, and think it’s really nifty cool.

Over the past year I have been covering Facebook and social networks obsessively. The more I write and the more I read, the more complex the social web becomes.

You’ve told the boss that you’re going to implement social media stuff for your organization, and in your mind, you’ve decided that means an account on Twitter and a blog.

This one is really short-term. I regularly talk to large brands, with deep, consumer-facing websites that don’t have rating systems installed.

Then, on the Mister-Wong site, go to the “Groups Page”. Here you can join or create new groups. Now there are advantages and disadvantages to both creating and joining groups.

Many people like to use social media sites in order to gain popularity, and to heavily increase their traffic if a story that they write hits the front pages of many of the top social media sites.

Broadcast and print media and the services the support the creation and distribution of information are not dead and Social Media is not going to get indicted for holding the smoking gun.

Generation Y - roughly those aged 13-29 - are among the strongest consumers and influencers.

Unlike a newspaper or television show, social networking is a medium whose content is deeply unpredictable.

Bain says MySpace did extensive research before the launch. "The users said, 'I understand I have to live with ads, and I don't mind them,'" he says.