Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Facebook rolled out their iPhone app in August, 2007. Nearly all the once mighty, now defunct social network or community sites unfurled and died after being purchased. link] jaybaer Is your niche Twilight community worth $580 million now, it culturally relevant on a broad scale? It’s a familiar tale. The goals shift.

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ProBlogger

JULY 1, 2012

He went to a blogger event, met the ones he wanted to meet, established relationships, and then asked them to do a review. Within two months, those spokespeople pushed sales to $2 million, then to 30 million copies by 2007 … and the rest is history. But the turning point for her was her acceptance by the gay community.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

RowFeeder is built for just such as circumstance, with tight Excel integration (version 2007 and newer) that provides both raw data for geeks to pull like taffy, plus canned reports that are better than most. Assuming you want to dive into the pool of custom graph creation and data manipulation, you’ll probably do so in Microsoft Excel.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Don’t laugh – this was in 2007. If you needed a new data field, a different validation rule or even just a field label updated, you had to prostrate yourself before them to get it done within the week, if you were lucky. I once had a developer quote me $10,000 to create a signup form.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Get an Upcoming.org account to promote events. Use social networks respectfully to share the best of your content, in a community-appropriate setting. Remember that community and marketplace are two different things.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

October 2007. As for email, it’s been declared dead by more pundits, journalists, and entrepreneurs than I care to count. A few of my favorite reports of email’s death that were greatly exaggerated: July 2004. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Robert Scoble argued that email faced deletion at the hands of Web 2.0 March 2009.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. You're right on about Twitter being only one of the channels for communication on the social web. What’s Happening?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

Add to groups/events. Groups/Events. Virtual Communities. Slide 1: Toward a Future Knowledge Society Stephen Downes VENUS Seminars Gebruary 14, 2007 Slide 2: Once upon a time there was order We had two types of knowledgeâ?¦ in communities of experts, communities of practice Thatâ??s Slideshare.net (beta).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Kevin Rose: Digg’s Biggest Hypocrite Kevin Rose: Digg’s Biggest Hypocrite by Tamar Weinberg on November 7, 2007 Share You know what I find funny? Kevin Rose , I’m talking to you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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