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by Ethan Bloch on Jan 23, 2012

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http://let5ch.tumblr.com/ Tim Letscher

Thanks for the poster, but you can’t ignore Pinterest for the next version. Digg? Not sure that’s as relevant these days as Pinterest, StumbleUpon or Reddit.
http://www.allviaweb.com Lily Grozeva

Completely back up Tim on this one. Include Pinterest, exclude Digg.
heather cruse

what about Pinterest. 11 million NEW users just last week…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAnzYk379M samedayessay.com

amazing work!
http://www.ferreemoney.com/blog/ Neil Ferree

just scanned your infographic [lots of interesting data points] going to Pin It to my Board and share w/ my SMB clients who dread having to spend so much time building their social shares. strong work!
http://let5ch.tumblr.com/ Tim Letscher

Ironic then that this didn’t include Pinterest, no?
http://twitter.com/Paulowenphoto Paul Owen

Great Share, thanks for the cheat sheet! Love Pinterest is how I found this!
http://twitter.com/PatinaMarketing Patina Marketing

Yep. I’m posting it my Social Media board now…

I love infographics and Pinterest is going to be huge.
http://www.brickmarketing.com/ Nick Stamoulis

Great tips for beginners, but it should include information about LinkedIn too. LinkedIn is more business focused and is beneficial for B2Bs.
http://www.russelljsmith.co.uk Russell James Smith

As others have mentioned it would be good to include Pinterest for Ecommerce, LinkedIn for B2B businesses, and across the board to detail some of the location based features that tie into these networks for small businesses such as restaurants or bars that want to be discovered locally.
http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-6-best-social-media-platforms-for-your-business The 6 Best Social Media Platforms For Your Business / Flowtown (@flowtown)

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http://twitter.com/vremmott Valerie R Emmott

Hey there, just wondering why you haven’t included Linked In on your cheat sheet? Feels an essential small business tool to some of us!
http://www.smallbusinessbible.org/ Small Business

I’m still learning from you, but I’m trying to achieve my goals. I certainly enjoy reading all that is posted on your blog.Keep the information coming. I loved it!
Tracy Dempsey

Hi there, a mostly great infographic – but it’s incorrect in one point: It’s not true that you need to create a personal profile to create a page on Facebook. Yes you can’t use a personal profile for business, it does have to be a page – but you can create a business account used only for maintaining pages/ads, if you don’t ever want to use a personal profile. You can’t maintain more than one account so it’s a definite either/or – but you do have 2 options, not 1. Which is very useful for people who don’t want any personal info on Facebook whatsoever.(I’d also include LinkedIn, and for YouTube, on of my 4 key points would be check the legal stuff before filming/uploading anything!)