•    Detect copies of articles on the Internet that have been deleted
•    There are print screens of the published texts on Espasa.com and tests in the cache of Google.

Incredible but true. The editorial web page that published the most famous encyclopaedia in Spanish has been caught plagiarising texts from Wikipedia as El Mundo says today. This includes opening a site which shows the plagiarism on the website of Espasa.com

The accused part of the blogosphere. The blog GaedDal is echoed from the report of the main author of the article about Baltasar Gracián in the online encyclopaedia by José Manuel Moreno. Moreno whose nickname is “Escarlati” wrote an email to those responsible at Espasa.com and explained the license of Wikipedia (that between other things, they are obligated to extract the texts of the same publishing also under the license GNU Free Documentation License and the copyright of Espasa.com are incompatible).

In spite of the disappearance of Baltasar Gracián’s profile and other profiles on Espasa.com, the news has been extended in the network; print screens also exist that shows some plagiarisms and you can read them in the cache of Google.

Wikipedia has been authorised entrance about these plagiarisms and it shows until this moment, copies of the biographies of Voltaire, Albert Boadella, Dámaso Alonso, Giovanni Boccacio, Joan Manuel Gisbert, Azorín and Arcadi Espada.

Editorial sources of Espasa have assured that they have received a notification by email from Wikipedia that the copy of the profile of Baltasar Gracian will be back in place on the website.

“We delay the withdrawal for 45 minutes whilst others are checking it”, commented the sources. Since, Espasa has stated that they entrust the new design of the page with an external company.

The newly elected American president Barack Obama announced that every week he will be directing the citizens with video messages on Youtube.

As Diario Ti commented today as part of its mission to introduce technological tools in the government, Barack Obama announces that weekly he will publish messages to his citizens on Youtube.

The speeches to the people are not an invention of Obama, for various years there has been a custom of the American president to make a weekly speech on the radio for the citizens. However, Obama will make the same message but more compatible with the times, recorded on video and published on Youtube.

The decision to use Youtube as a canal of frequent and lively communication with the American citizens is because it is a technology praised by Obama. Between these things, he has incorporated a text messaging service, Facebook and Twitter in his presidential campaign.

Whilst he waits for his move to the White House, the elected president has already started transmitting the weekly speeches onto video of the democrats. The speeches are also published on the website Change.gov

Since there are so many interesting things about social media and there is so much to write about it, I have had a hard time thinking of what to write. I did a search and I came across this article about social media tools and there were some tips about how to make the most out of one’s social life on the web.

Here are the tips and let me share them with you:

• Use a good avatar. Yes you read that right. Get a good avatar because it is easier to remember a picture than words. Avatars can help you create your social identity that is why it is popular with the social crowd. Some of the most recommended avatars include a clear photo of yourself, the logo of your site or company, or any image that can be easily identified. Better choose an avatar which makes a mark and helps identify people that it is really you.

• Be consistent with your identity. It is practical to have one identity for your business site and another for your personal or niche site but it is not necessary to have different user names for let’s say, 6 different sites. It is better that you use a single name and define your personal brand so that your friends and other people can find you easily in other sites.

• Don’t spread yourself too thin! There are so many existing social media sites and the numbers are growing daily, this is the reality: you just can’t be everywhere! Just pick a few sites which provide you with value such as the ones where your peers are, and establish yourself there.

• Be active. Once you have found the social media sites you want and where you want to build your social presence, better be active in them! Introduce yourself, make friends, create and vote for articles or polls, share links, and do so much more since there are practically no limitations!

Ponder on those tips and apply them as you go about in the social media world and you will surely be able to socialize with more people in a breeze!

• Enhance the feature of blogs

• Interact with other bloggers

• Broaden readership

• Grow your profile

• Drive or create more traffic to your blogs

Some advantages of Twitter

1. Research Tool: One thing you will like about Twitter is the method used when you’re searching or seeking a post.

• If you require an example? Twitter it; you might obtain some noble one.
• Got query that stuck on your mind? Inquire it to your group or followers to perceive what they think.
• Need to examine a theory? Perform a straw census on your groups.
• The loveliness of Twitter is fast, used by a broad of people, because one hundred forty (140) characters maximum keeps interaction brief, manageable and prolific.

2. Strengthen and expand Your Personal Trademark:

• Whether it is blogging, bookmarking, social networking, genuine life interactions, all of these straws when added can build your own trademark or brand.

In your emails you can find messages from people saying or comments like these:

• I used to look and read you at ProBlogger however had misplaced path until I establish you on Twitter.
• I subscribe your RSS feed on blog but seeing your article or posts on Twitter evoke me to read and study them more.
• I was looking into through somebody else’s Twitters and saw your photo. I established it through your Facebook account.

This kind of remark show that Twitter is more helpful and useful instrument in locating you as blogger in front of the prospective readers.

3. Advertise Content:

• First thing people normally ask me when I tell them I’m one of the user of Twitter is “how much traffic or transfer does it impel back to your blogs?’ I’ve deliberately held off writing concerning Twitter or its significance, or how it coerce or drive traffic until this time in this article because I don’t see any reason that it is the major advantage of the tool, many said it can potentially advertise content and at the same time drive traffic.

• My best friend using an instrument or tool called Twitterfeed just a few weeks ago to obtain headlines and URLs from her blog’s feeds and also to advertise them in her Twitter account. From that moment she had seen at the present over 1350 guests come from Chirp or Twitter to Problogger after this come out in her Twitter feed each time she post:

• Twitter had turn into an option subscription technique for them. Good thing it really roots these readers to examine the blog or the blog itself, in their feed reader – making augment page sight or irreplaceable visitor counts.

4. Widen Spectators - Find Recent Readers:

• Bloggers who are been about for a while in their slot has already achieved the saturation point. Now and then they feel like everybody who will hear concerning them and they can notice a plateau inside their stats. This frequently happens six to twelve (6-12) months into a blog.

• However numerals of Twitter users especially my best friend have inform me that they’ve recently discovered our friend blogs through the use of Tweets and the Tweets of other users. While my friend Google analytics pronounce that twenty-seven (27%) of the guests who have come up to ProBlogger are from Twitter are ‘new’ to my friend blogs. For her that’s about fifteen up to twenty (15-20) new readers for each day through Twitter and more than a year that could be certainly append up and those five to seven thousands (5000 – 7000) new readers may possibly have important impact upon a group of people or community.

5. Networking:

• One more noticeable advantage of Twitter is the aptitude that it provides you to make contacts on a different rank or level with other bloggers and readers. This has opened a few absorbing opportunities to work jointly endorsing other’s content and sharing advice. In additional it has also opened up three four (3-4) chances find new visitor bloggers for each blogs.

6. Discover What Community truly think:

• Other surveillance that I’ve made on Twitter is that group of people have a certain rank of truthfulness and simplicity on Twitter that they sometimes disguise or conceal on their blogs. I’m not certain why this is- however maybe when face up to with saying something in one hundred forty (140) characters they have to narrow piece away a few of the disclaimers and politically correct words and say what they mean.

• Good thing concerning with this is to give or provide you logic of what group of people are really believing or thinking on a topic. This assist you to recognize them on a new rank or level but also aid you to keep you feel on the desires and feelings of your prospective readers.

An online reputation has to do with keeping an eye on your product, brand or services and retort when something doesn’t seem right. It does not only protect you, it can also aid you proliferate your concern and spread it. Through the means of blog entries, articles, social media profiles, videos, photos and other means to participate, you are furnishing yourself valuable opportunities. For all you know your name is extended through various channels by most people you don’t even know. Your brand name is taken care of by others, so monitoring is crucial to managing your online reputation. Some of the top tools that help you on track are the following:

• Google Alerts – they are updates of the latest Google results according to your query. You can avail of this through email or RSS.
• Backtype – is vital to blog comments. This service came out only recently, and it helps keep track of comments made to you on a series of blogs. It lets you find comments and follow or share them, so that whenever you write any comment linking your website, BackType ascribes it to you.
• Technorati – is crucial to blog posts. It is the largest blog search engine worldwide. As soon as you register it tracks the significant blog reactions and links connected to yours.
• Twitter – a microblogging service that hosts to over 3 million people worldwide. Tweets or Twitter messages travel at light speed. You have to track them and catch them before they spread like virus.
• Boardtracker – is utilized in discussion boards. Discussion boards are another outlet for people to gather as a community and focus the talk on you. The relevance of discussion boards are seen when other sites start noticing what you have got to share.
• Friendfeed – is a collective social keeper. It lets you take all your social accounts into a single feed, which is friendfeed.

These tools can be used for both corporate or product brands in addition to your individual brand. You can use each of them for searching, locating and responding when necessary. You can utilize them in line with your marketing strategy to ascertain your audience and market them directly. Make the first initiative to do something about what people are saying about you. Marketing your audience using these tools makes all the pending work easy to manage.

Cbox medial is a tool that provides your blog site a chat box for your visitors. It gives fellow bloggers a chance to leave messages, comments and widget that combine the best features of regular chat room and tagging systems into one ideal solution. Cbox have a significant role especially important to active bloggers. This tool plays a big rule in helping bloggers on exchanging links by visiting sites regularly and leaving messages.

• Social Networking –is widely known as web 2.0. Such as Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, etc. The places were you can connect with your social friends, family, people with the same interest, exchange information about the place they were and the ability to find an opportunity in terms of jobs.
• Social Bookmarking – Allows you to organize your favorites such as places to travel, stuffs, education and keep it in one place. It is very easy and handy to check. It has the ability to share it to your friends and colleagues. Good examples for it are Reddit and Furl.

• Social Recommendation – It is a combination of social bookmarking and social networkings were you can generate recommended sites through StumbleUpon and Digg. It is the place to encourage them to vote for the said recommended sites. At the same time, to get more audience with the site you recommended.
• Social Content – The sites allows you to share your videos, photos, more information about the topic at the same time to get more feedbacks regarding the posted videos, photos and articles. Good examples for it are youtube, flcker and wikis…

Those are some of the place to connect and promote your sites to your friends.

Social Media Marketing- is an internet-base method of business marketing and also ties with non-internet marketing like word of mouth advertising. Social media marketing is the process of promotion of sites, company businesses or brand new items through social media network by attracting or delighting and interacting to the existing consumers. The most common term referring to this activities are open to marketers to build links, attention and receive big amount of traffic for their company or business site.

The main part of the social media marketing is the ideas of listening to the customers; companies will understand what the consumer values and needs. In order to understand what your customer wants, their preferences, behavior, and web ability; you must utilize SMM Social media marketing to have great traffic from the users.

In 2004, Tim O’Reilly coined the term Web 2.0, refers to Social Media or Community sites at the new media conference, at that time the companies have been trying their best to find it out and how to deploy Web 2.0 application. In over all or general view during that time the thinking is, if a rival has user or member generated content then the rival companies brand be utilizing members generated content, be it wikis, widget, blogs or other forms of social media. This time most of the companies have been engaged in social media applications today and focus in engaging online interactions of the consumers.

Even though that the social media marketing define the activities that are good for the marketers and companies, the fundamental assumption of these activities is based on the consolidation of technology, the construction of words, social interaction, pictures, audio and videos. The fundamentals of social media marketing produce great benefits to those who are projected by the social media marketer. Costumers of social media gain benefits from these targeted initiatives in a multitude of ways including entertainment, education, market research and the ability to engage with brands directly.

Word of mouth marketing is the oldest and long standing form of social marketing. In the development of this new style social communities and websites grow with it does and fast increasing in their ability to spread a message by word of mouth marketing.

In today’s generation, the fast pace spreading of social networking is common not only in one particular country but throughout the whole world. Most of the people are relying in social networking as their tool of communication and businesses. Aside from that, Social Networking sites lengthen its horizon of information and communication tools such like photo/video sharing, blogging and mobile connectivity.

On the other hand below are some lists of Social Networking services, benefits and risks that users should take into consideration.

Services:

• Sharing ideas—social networking could give the user’s opportunity to share ideas with the other users.
• Chatting—whether your love ones are in abroad or your friends you can talk to them anytime through chatting.
• Instant Messaging—if you do not have enough prepaid, you can use social networking in sending instant messages.
• Online games—you can download online games through social networking. This would help you ease the boredom you feel from work.
• Blogging—if you have any interests or ideas that you can’t share verbally you can share it through blogging.
• Making free profile webpage—with the use of social networking, users have the chance to create their own profile webpage and link or share it with the other users.

Benefits:

• Links—one of the benefits of social networking which allows the users to build a group in their website. Through this it would help them inflate the ranking of their search engines.
• Communication—it can help promote your product and services if you have many friends or followers in your lists through the continuous communication with them.
• Source of Information—one of the best features of social networking since mostly the users gets information in the net.
• Sales—for businessmen social networking is their best way of promoting and selling their product and services as they find it convenient and easy.

Risks:

• Despite the fact that social networking services and benefits have been grown, still there are risks emerging on it. It is because nothing is private here and anybody can visit the user’s profile.
• Pornography and malicious things can easily disseminate here which is not a good example.
• Sharing personal information with the users you didn’t know yet is not a good example because you are putting yourself and some information into risks.