1. Diigo: Diigo lets you create sticky notes, bookmark websites and take notes. Then you can save then to your library. With the iPhone application, you can read your saved documents offline, too.
2. Newsvine: Newsvine is a great social bookmarking site dedicated to news stories. Keep up with the latest in news from all over the world. You can choose the feeds that you most want to see on your page.
3. Clip Marks: Clip Marks lets you mark actual clips from sites, rather than links to the sites themselves. Then you can share exactly what you’re reading with others. It integrates into most blogging software, too.
4. Friend Feed: Friend Feed lets you bookmark and share what you’re reading on the web. Then, you and your friends can discuss it in real time.
5. Slashdot: Slashdot allows people to post news stories for all other readers to see. The site basically functions by readers submitting the news they’re interested in – along with their comments. Then, other readers can comment, too.
6. Fark: Fark allows you to post news, or just snippets of news, and tag them with bookmarks, such as “strange” “weird”, ” sad” etc. You can also post comments on the story as well as the link to the original story.
7. Mixx: Mixx is a site that lets you tailor the content you want to see. You can customize Mixx to show you just the type of news you like to read, allowing you to save time by seeing only what interests you.
8. Reddit: Reddit is a fun site for readers to see the most popular news stories for the day, and reader comments related to them. As readers vote for the story, it rises to the top of the listings for the day. There are lots of great polls here, too.
9. Clip Clip: Clip Clip is advertised as your online scrapbook. It’s a great place to bookmark and organize all your information on the web. You can save text and images with clean little bookmarks.
10. Blinklist: Blinklist is simply a browser toolbar. Once you’ve installed it, whenever you want to save a website, you simply “blink” it with the button on the toolbar. Then, you can access your “blinked” sites whenever you want, and save copies offline, too.
11. Bookmark Tracker: This is a simple, web-based utility that lets you bookmark your favorite sites and articles quickly and easily.
12. Connectedy: Connectedy lets you upload bookmarks from your favorite sites into your Connectedy accounts. Then you can organize them, track them and share them.
13. Easy BM: This site is simple to use. You can bookmark what you want to keep track of, right on your own private page.
14. Folkd: Folkd lets you bookmark, save and share your favorite sites and articles. You can also see which sites your friends like.
15. Lilisto: Lilisto lets you bookmark your sites privately. You can save them, organize them and prioritize them.
16. Multiply: Multiply works a little differently. This site allows you to share information with your friends, much like Facebook. You can also sell items and shop online through this site. This is actually one of the more successful sites, from a financial perspective, though it is still relatively unknown.
17. My Link Vault: This is a great site for saving your links and accessing them later.
18. Spotback: Spotback is a rating system that recommends content for you based on how you’ve rated content in the past. It’s a great way to easily find content that you’ll enjoy.
19. Sitejot: Sitejot is another simple page to allow you to bookmark the sites you like and keep them organized on a single page. You’ll add a button to your browser to help you bookmark sites quickly and easily.

The following list is categorized by 2009 and 2010, and each link is listed by the month of creation, noted after each description. Note that some businesses may have been created years before their blogs.

2009

1. Camerjam: It’s difficult to state when Camerjam began their blog, but records go back to January 2009. Camerjam is a conference and events company with a passion for all things mobile (January).
2. Fashionably Marketing. Me: Although the site was launched in 2008, the archives only go to January 2009. In 2010, FMM expanded its articles to cover ROI, sales conversions and more advanced digital marketing strategies (January).
3. Finger Food: This blog belongs to 5th Finger, a mobile marketing company and “a retailer’s best secret weapon” (January).
4. Resonance Blog: Records show 2009, placing this advanced communications blog in January (January).
5. Viral Curve: Comments, commentary, tutorials and general viral “chitter chatter” about viral marketing (January).
6. Dale Rankine: Rankine’s role is to develop innovative user experiences and applications for smartphones and implement the Appland team’s strategy and roadmap (February).
7. Mobile Software Development: Tune in to learn information on software development on mobile platforms, mostly Java ME and Android (March).
8. The Really Mobile Project: This is a mobile-focused video show and website, brought to you by Ben Smith, Dan Lane, James Whatley and Vikki Chowney with regular guest contributors (March).
9. Mobile Developer TV: Each show centers on one or two people in the mobile development space (April).
10. mobileperry: Bill Perry is the Sr. Services Marketing Manager for Forum Nokia based in California and is leading Nokia’s global efforts to support developers for Ovi Store (April).
11. Netwits Think Tank: An online resource for nonprofit organizations working with social media, internet marketing, and online fundraising (April).
12. Indigo 102: Indigo 102 is an independent consultancy built on a passion to drive the mobile internet environment. (June).
13. Mobile Commerce Daily: This site is becoming a mobiel commerce news leader. Although their record was created in June this year, the newsletter archive only reaches back to October 2009 (June).
14. Urban Airship: The engine behind thousands of apps, Urban Airship’s breakthrough technology makes mobile apps far more engaging, effective, and efficient (June).
15. Smaato: This blog is maintained by a pioneering mobile advertising company that operates the mobile ad optimization platform (June).
16. Adfonic: This blog is maintained by a European global media marketing tool (July).
17. Digital Lunch: The goal of this blog is to stay in the loop of news/trends that are changing traditional PR & marketing and make it further open to the online space (July).
18. Empowered MLM Marketer: For fees, you can access the blogs, generate leads and receive MLM success (July).
19. Mobilod Mobile Marketing News: This blog is targeted at mobile marketing and using mobile phones in strategic communications (August).
20. Mobsessed: A UK blog, created by Carl Martin, an evangelist of the mobile industry, and “self confessed mobsessive” (August).
21. The Text Works: The Text Works is an online mobile messaging service for business and part of the Piri Ltd. (August).
22. Appboy: Providing app goodness since and ideas for apps since 2009 (September).
23. Footprints: Walker Sands is an agency that covers public relations, marketing, Web design & development, search engine optimization, social media, technology and more (September).
24. Rapture Image: This is Harrison Tonne’s blog, the owner of Rapture Image marketing (September).
25. Chris Koch’s B2B Marketing Blog: A B2B blog about PR and technology (October).
26. Leonardo Risulo: Risuleo is an Italian freelance mobile developer / designer and “eternal student” (October).
27. Moto Message Blog: Moto Message gives you back control of your marketing with an easy, fast and effective text message marketing platform (October).
28. Event Mobile Marketing Blog: Tap into some serious mobile marketing tips and tricks (November).
29. Flash Widgets: Blog: A Flash Lite developer blog that showcases code snippets and more (November).
30. Social Email Marketing: Not limited to email, this blog touches on all aspects of marketing, including mobile (December).
31. Tell My Cell: This mobile marketing blog covers the latest news in that arena (December).
32. Word Of Mouth Marketing Blog: Reviews of companies, products and other news in blogging, social media and finance (December).
33. YouMobile: Since this site was created in 2009, all blogs on this site are fairly fresh, and deal with tools, marketing and public relations (December).

2010

34. SEO Consult Blog: Covering various marketing and SEO concepts with one focus on mobile marketing (January).
35. The Launch Blog: The Launch Blog is written by employees of Launch Creative Marketing on advertising and marketing-related topics such as industry insights, launch life, trending and more (January).
36. Blue Chilli Marketing Blog: Blue Chilli offers their take on advertising, ROI, POS and public relations (March).
37. imagineric: A Flash developer who currently plays with AS3, AIR, Flex Builder 3, Spry, Dojo, SVN, Eclipse, MTASC, and all the other fun stuff that goes with it (March).
38. Do You Mobi? Mobile marketing and SEO blog that offers links and reviews (April).
39. OnPath: This blog is maintained by OnPath Business Solutions, Canada’s largest and most sophisticated multimedia B2B Marketing Services Bureau serving Technology, Energy, Media, Finance and Government clients since 1993 (April).
40. iZigg: A blog focusing on the iZigg approach to mobile marketing, including tips and practices (May).
41. SMS Mobile Marketing Blog: This blog is dedicated to all facets of SMS mobile marketing (May).
42. The Market Reacher: Record created in February, and the blog began a few months later. This is a source for information on B2B marketing strategies and tactics (May).
43. Prospect Research: A Blackbaud site that is an online resource for knowledge sharing and best practices in prospect research (July).
44. Mobimastermind: This training site has free video access, but you must become a member to participate in learning from Danny Mallinder (August).
45. Screen World Media: The Screen World Media team is a collection of four of Vancouver’s best business development talent. In early 2010 they came together to build a project that would capitalize on the Vancouver Olympics opportunity. In August, they launched this blog (August).
46. .Com Marketing: .Com Marketing offers an entire range of interactive marketing and advertising services and programs to deliver the best results for clients (September).
47. Friends Asking Amy: Another Blackbaud site focused on supporting development staff with fundraising events (September).
48. The Range Blog: Range Online Media has been ranked in the 2010 Advertising Age magazine’s 30 Best Companies to Work for in Marketing and Media (September).
49. One Mobile Media Blog: One Mobile Media is a team of mobile strategists, designers, and developers who share a passing for helping businesses grow (October).
50. Digital Dames: Carrie Valentine and Christine Rochelle are taking digital marketing success to the next level with their new blog (November).

Maybe you’re not on the social media because you don’t fully understand it, or you just don’t know how to get started. There are plenty of resources that can help you with both of those issues; including YouTube. Check out these 15 videos on YouTube that can help you better understand how you can use social media sites to your advantage.

1. Boloco Burrito: See how a simple burrito company uses social media to a great advantage.This story is sure to inspire you to take advantage of social media.
2. Social Media in 3 Minutes: Get a quick overview of how important social media is to your business’ marketing plan. This is a great video for the beginner.
3. Social Media in Plain English: If you don’t really understand the social media phenomenon, this video will help you out.
4. Perry Belcher on Social Media: Learn how to effectively use social networking to enhance your business.
5. Toolbox: B2B Social Media Marketing Solutions: Learn how you can use social media in business to business marketing. Even if your customers are businesses; there’s a social media application to help with your marketing plan.
6. Social Media Revolution: This video discusses whether social media is here to stay, or just a fad.
7. SEO Search Engine Marketing: Using social media and search engine optimization to improve your marketing plan.Search engine optimization is a great tool that all businesses should know how to use. Pairing it with social media makes it even more effective.
8. What Facebook’s Explosion Means to Television and Online Internet Marketing and Social Media: This new video discusses the fact that social media is now the number one media type on the internet- and how you can use it to your advantage.
9. Social Media Marketing Made Simple for Small Business: Gail Goodman, the CEO of Constant Contact, discusses how small businesses can use social media to their marketing advantage.
10. How Social Media Marketing Saved My Life: Successful internet entrepreneur discusses how social media helped him rebuild his business after a government shut down.
11. Smart Blog Commenting for Social Media Marketing: Blog commenting is a great social media marketing tool. See how you can use it to your advantage. This simple exercise can really bring traffic to your site if you do it correctly.
12. Social Media Marketing: Adding a RSS feed to your blog: Learn how to add an RSS feed to your blog to allow your readers to subscribe to all your posts.
13. How to Do Social Meeting Marketing: Learn how to use blogging and social networks to improve your marketing plan.
14. Social Media Marketing Tips: Automatically Ping Your Blog: Learn how to use feed burner to help increase the popularity of your blog.
15. Social Media Marketing: Fresh Consulting: A great overview of how everyone can use social media to share their creative work for personal or business reasons.

In today’s economy, it is more important than ever for businesses of all sizes to take advantage of every marketing opportunity that presents itself. Social media has revolutionized marketing, including the way people choose the products they buy and the way that companies market the products they sell.

If you’re not on the social media band wagon; you should be. These videos, along with other resources, can help you understand why you need social media marketing and how you can get started. Don’t miss out on the social media marketing revolution; it’s too important to your business.

This rise in demand of market research has forced professionals to go into market research and marketing.  However, for getting completely into the marketing MBA, one should have bit understanding about the marketing. On a broader perspective, marketing is merely not an activity of advertising and selling goods but more off it is a more  than that  and both are merely a step of marketing. Marketing can be understood with those steps that are needed for recognizing particular needs and demands of target market of customers and then satisfying their needs by the medium of competition.

A successful marketing campaign starts from a properly done market research. A market  research analyst can take into consideration all other factors like statistical data on competitors for examining prices, sales and methods of marketing and distribution, market researchers analyze data on past sales to predict future sales. In most cases, market research analysts devise methods and procedures for having data they need. In most of the cases market research analyst found new methods for mining data they need. Often they design telephone, mail or internet survey to have an assessment of the consumer survey.

So it is clear that in present day business activities, Marketing is an essential to business and there extensive vacancies in the field of marketing have been witnessed in recent times. Companies are constantly hunting for Chief Marketing Officers. So make the best use of extensive demand in the field of marketing one can have MBA in marketing that provides him an additional edge. If you are already working in a company in positions as hold by marketing departments an MBA in marketing can help you to chase up corporate ladder in better and analyzed way. The first year of the MBA course tells you about subjects like economy, strategy and leadership skills. As a student of marketing MBA, the areas that you would cover are consumer audiences, consumer behavior, and market research, the analysis of demand, strategic planning, marketing campaigns, consumer relations and advertising. The job outlook for MBA marketing is very bright one can look into the following areas as for better business prospects.

• Product and Brand Managers: He is held responsible for the profitability and market growth of a product line. He can be assumed as CEO of a particular product or commodity. He looks over the diverse divisions of the company as to ensure efficient and timely flow of product into the market.
• New Product Development Specialists: This designation in the company has been made to ensure managing new of developing product lines.
• Marketing Managers: He works as on line of a project manager, however, is more focused over serving and managing an ongoing relationship with existing customers.

This way focus and scope for MBA in marketing can be understood.

The course for the MBA in marketing is offered in many institutions around the world. This course is both advantageous to a student and the working executives that wish to improve their knowledge and their education background. Nowadays the course is even offered online. While you have this course as your profession it is decent and has ample scope for career development. For anyone who is willing to take this course there are requirements that are needed for you to be eligible to take this course. The mark that is required by the institutions is at least 60% marks for you to be admitted. The only thing that varies is the selection process. The institutions have different selection modes. An MBA in marketing also begins with a solid education in business administration. There are lower level courses that you take before you take this course. They are the financial accounting, the concept of marketing, the economic analysis, ethics, business and society and finally the business law. This courses and others that have not been mentioned will always prepare you for the higher levels course work in marketing and you as the marketing student a wide range of business knowledge and experience. Once you finish all this classes and you succeed then you begin to focus on the patterned training and education.

Choosing the marketing specialty to venture into is the first decision that you make as the student. Because of the initial coursework and knowledge, the students are able to choose them confidently. They are the marketing details how to motivate, coordinate and compensate a sales team. Second is strategies and budgeting, the third one is the impact of the cultural differences and finally how to market on the internet and applying software programs to the marketing strategies. After you have chosen your specialty,   you are ready to complete your MBA in Marketing. Marketing is a fast paced, intense career as are the marketing courses leading to the MBA in marketing. Students who wish to venture into business should think of this course.