I really do love the quality of content produced by SEOmoz, especially for Whiteboard Fridays. Always original, exclusive, and enjoyable to read/watch.

Posts range from highly relevant to exceedingly relevant, with this week’s excursion into the dark side of article (or content) marketing is no exception.

Here, Rand shows off his keen ability to be perfectly in-tune with the current state of content (or article) strategy.

Extremely relevant to anyone in the midst of planning or implementing any type of related content strategies for their organization (e.g., hiring bloggers to write on your niche topic, either for your blog or elsewhere; enabling staff to become your organization’s ‘industry experts’ via tweeting or manning the Facebook page; or simply any other planned strategic activity with content creation a core tactic—and these will always have a certain degree of inherent risk).

Highly recommended.

A majority of marketers are engaging in social media as a marketing channel, and a large number of those consider the professional networking site LinkedIn as offering the best ROI.

The “BMA Project Case Study,” a survey of Business Marketing Association members by online research company Itracks Online Data Collection, found that 89% of respondents are using social media as part of their marketing mix. LinkedIn was favored as providing the greatest ROI by 49% of respondents, followed by Twitter (20%), Facebook (15%), blogs and videos (11%) and YouTube (6%).

Interesting survey of Business Marketing Association members found LinkedIn to be the most favored social media platform among marketers, with greater return on investment (ROI) than Twitter, Facebook, or blogs/videos.

The study begs the question as to whether these results apply to public relations practitioners.

Cheers to @sharilee for the link.