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In a weekly email, and in an effort to promote their “social marketing bootcamp“, Forrester this week talks about “social marketing” - those marketing vehicles that are being embraced by consumers who increasingly distrust traditional forms of advertising.

As part of “social marketing” they consider:

• WOM marketing (word-of-mouth)
• blogs
• RSS
• and podcasting

I am surprised to see RSS as part of this list - after all that is just a distribution mechanism for content coming from traditional web sites, blogs or podcasts.

Interestingly enough, they do have a small graph showing RSS users as real Info Junkies - with 42% using national news sites every week (vs. less than 15% for non RSS users), and with 40% researching products for purchase (vs. less than 20% for non-RSS users).

The email also reiterates some of their previous findings - that only 2% of the online adults use RSS.

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