The Rapportive add-on for gmail helps connect you with your contacts on other social networks.

Once installed for either Chrome, Firefox, Mailplane and/or Safari (sorry IE users), Rapportive will sniff out your contacts on other networks; giving you the option to connect with them on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and more.

Additionally, once connected you can view their status updates within the Gmail interface.

I’ve been using Rapportive a few months now, and have been able to quickly connect with people on other networks without leaving Gmail. Hence, increasing connectability with clients, associates, friends and family.

Rapportive’s functionality can be expanded by use of Raplets; which deliver added functionality from sources like MailChimp and CrunchBase.

Install Rapportive for Chrome, Firefox, MailPlane and Safari

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• Google Talks Local Search Relevance Factors – Key factors are relevance, prominence and distance
• Google Reveals New Social Site Links – Your social media friends as Google Site Links in search resutls; further integration of Social Media into Search
• New Ranking Signal to Consider – Essentially due to a recent story circulating about a business claiming to utilize negative reviews to boost their ranking in Google
• US Online Advertising Expected to Continue Growing
• New Google Keyword Tool Filtering and Refinement Options
• Embeddable Music, TV Shows, Slides and More Now on Twitter
• Who Needs a Website These Days Anyway?
• Google + Bing Confirm that Twitter/Facebook Influence SEO

The good news is; the same traditional SEO methodology applies to socially produced content. If optimized properly, content produced on social networks like Facebook and Twitter will show in the same search results as your website or blog.

Watch the SEOmoz video below for additional information:

StumbleUpon, now back under the control of the original owners after being ‘let-go’ by eBay, has rolled-out some significant updates. The homepage features more content, the entire site has been re-designed and a new emphasis is being put on the user’s friend network. The stories you see and submit are now heavily focused within a user’s network (verses the entire SU network). What this means is that stories you see are derived from your friend network, instead of the entire SU network. Same goes with the stories you submit. Gone are the days of instant traffic off a carefully-placed SU submission… unless you have thousands of friends.

Luckily, the SU focused friend network feature update is in beta. If you don’t like it, leave feedback. The owners have historically been very receptive to user input.

StumbleUpon vs Digg vs Twitter vs Tumblr (Unique Visitors Chart)

Twitter is big, and has a prolonged buzz effect, but is still relatively small in comparison to social networks like Facebook and MySpace both in Idaho and the United States.

Social marketing, integrated social marketing (ISM), social media marketing or whatever you want to call it is HUGE! With so many networks itchin to monopolize your time without any real giveback how on earth are you supposed to figure out which ones are ‘worth it’? Glad you asked, intrepid social marketing knowledge seeker – see (and freely embed) the Social Conversation Prism:

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

Also known as the ‘why you need a professional social marketer’ prism.

Embed the Social Marketing Conversation Prism on Your Site/Blog