A few days ago, Lee Odden wrote about the Five Blunders of Social News and Bookmarking and the noise associated with social media marketing. These blunders, while probably not a comprehensive list, are things that I see daily as I read various blogs and frequent a handful of social media properties. They are the following:
Submitting press releases to social news sites
Add every social bookmarking icon to your blog
Submit your own content
Relying on a network of people to vote on stories.
Related to above: Howdy Doody comments
This list fits in well with what I have been thinking about for the last three weeks since I started my new gig at Yahoo (it usually takes me that long to actually write a post, how sad). I have mentioned in a previous posting that social media is community driven and anyone who plays in this space already knows that. Also, in my opinion, it’s [...]