What does a "social media agency" do?

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[Chuck]

Social media agencies will be much more creative focused, some more promotions focused, and yet others more social media advertising focused. It really depends on where their skills and experience are. They do really depends on their people, experience, market focus. Social media agency, helps businesses leverage social media tools such as Facebook fan pages, Twitter.

[Jody]

They provide social media to a consumer generated media (CGM) that includes a blending of technology and social interaction for the co-creation of value.

They create websites related to web pages containing content such as text, images, video, audio, etc, and make is accessible and available via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an internet address known as a uniform resource locator.

There are six types of social media sites:

collaberative projects; Wikipedia
blogs and microblogs; Twitter
content communities; Youtube
social networking sites; Facebook
virtual game worlds; World of Warcraft
virtual social worlds; Second Life

For more information of social media agencies follow wiki link below.

[Bored Gremlin]

they advertize client's business on Facebook, by creating a page that users can like, posting stuff, etc.