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ArcoJedi
Jan 9 2006, 02:54 PM
There has started to be a bit of relevant news over the last couple of months over the benefit of social bookmarking and it's benefits for webmasters and ecommerce. Rather than a single link, I'm going to post two related articles and a series of examples -

Online Communities and eCommerce
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/...-and-ecommerce/
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Reports are surfacing that solidify a connection between social networks and e-commerce. Not surprisingly, people who hang out together online sometimes talk about shopping, and discuss products, and share recommendations. Some branding efforts are starting to incorporate the building of online community into what previously were static sites.

Ecommerce and Social Networks
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/7744.asp
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The rise of social networks is having a positive impact on ecommerce in the US. Along with demographic changes and growing broadband penetration, it is one of the key factors that drove online shopping spending up by 25 percent in 2005.

Here is a great article that explains a bit of background about what social bookmarking is:
Social Bookmarking Tools (I)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

Some examples of a social bookmarking engines are - But there are many others. I hope this helps.
Kraven
Aug 1 2006, 10:54 AM
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There has started to be a bit of relevant news over the last couple of months over the benefit of social bookmarking and it's benefits for webmasters and ecommerce. Rather than a single link, I'm going to post two related articles and a series of examples -

Online Communities and eCommerce
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/2006/...-and-ecommerce/
QUOTE
Reports are surfacing that solidify a connection between social networks and e-commerce. Not surprisingly, people who hang out together online sometimes talk about shopping, and discuss products, and share recommendations. Some branding efforts are starting to incorporate the building of online community into what previously were static sites.

Ecommerce and Social Networks
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/7744.asp
QUOTE
The rise of social networks is having a positive impact on ecommerce in the US. Along with demographic changes and growing broadband penetration, it is one of the key factors that drove online shopping spending up by 25 percent in 2005.

Here is a great article that explains a bit of background about what social bookmarking is:
Social Bookmarking Tools (I)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

Some examples of a social bookmarking engines are - But there are many others. I hope this helps.



In followup to this old post, I have had some success with Myspace.
However, has anyone had success letting users tag their site, or individual product pages to some of the social bookmarking sites shown below?

del.icio.us
Digg
Yahoo My Web
Furl
Simpy
blue
Aug 13 2006, 06:05 PM
more and more, i've heard of myspace as a new way for marketers to gain traffic to their sites.
they join groups within myspace, cultivate a friends list, and then broadcast email to their
list of friends to thier targeted money sites.
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