Every Wednesday (sorry for the delay) Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them in the next week’s wrap up.

Every Wednesday Pronet Advertising will be highlighting some of the best posts related to social media news and marketing. As always, please feel free to comment and if you have any recommendations, let us know so we can include them in the next week’s wrap up.

Wouldn’t it be a shame? You wrote a great piece, it was relevant not only for your general readership, but also for the social media audience. Not only that, but a user with a large audience wanted to submit your piece, but couldn’t because of your URL structure.

You may not agree with their tactics, but you can’t disagree with the money. Here’s a look at the Ron Paul army, their (often shady) tactics, and the return on their viral marketing blitzkrieg.

I have written about blog security many times but before this past week, I couldn’t speak from experience. Here’s what happened to my blog, and how I fixed it.

If you’ve ever had a chance to read the 8 great reasons to work at Netflix, you probably realized that these rules serve as a guideline that anyone can follow to success. Here’s a look at how we can apply these rules to successful blogging.

Back in April we saw the launch of Ballhype and dubbed it ‘social media sports done right‘ and now the founders of the site aim to replicated the success of that site with a new project called Showhype.

With over 3.5 million registered users (up from 600,000 two years ago), StumbleUpon has left the techie niche and has become mainstream. But unlike Google which makes its billions from helping you find what you’re looking for, StumbleUpon helps you discover content that you may not be looking for but will probably find interesting.

DonorsChoose.org is a site that facilitates philanthropists in providing students with resources that the public schooling system would otherwise lack. In a break from our general scope of coverage, we encourage you to take a moment and do something to fund someone’s future today.

I came across an interesting video today (ironically, courtesy of Digg) that makes fun of content on Digg and then boasts the superiority of Thoof, a Digg competitor, and it’s personalization engine. While this may seem like a good short-term strategy, this is likely to bite Thoof in the back.