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MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

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APRIL 10, 2008

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. FriendFeed: The Service and What it Offers Just a few days ago, Allen Stern wrote about how TweetStats allows you to spy on your friends.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on August 27, 2008 Share While I prepare to relocate (I’m moving next week!), I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? I have a few different blogs, one being a humor blog.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

When Weezer came out with Pork and Beans in 2008, the band’s music video introduced a completely different concept with characters that were incredibly familiar. Let’s take a look at what set these guys apart from their contenders. Identifiable Do something that other people can relate to. I like the Pork and Bean video.

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DECEMBER 3, 2007

There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. You can move your group off Facebook and into Ning or Yippikaya or Tumblr or Virb or … etc. at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog.

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MAY 9, 2008

I have some friends that don’t necessarily like the changes made within Digg in 2008, but they still want to be in the top 100 users for that “high&# I alluded to in my introductory paragraph. Hey, this is a confessional blog post, and I totally hear you.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. I find them blogging about the coolest innovations or discoveries. Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? Crucially, their expectations have changed. Of course I do.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Reply Mark Dykeman September 26, 2007 at 7:38 am Hi Tamar, great blog! There are a small group of users who are affected by the same problem, but we’re too small a group for Rose or his cronies to pay atrention to. Reply Dimitri March 28, 2008 at 10:51 pm I use both Digg & Reddit, but am getting tired of both of them.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Personal > Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on February 6, 2008 Share Awhile ago, I used Twitter to talk about one of my favorite cold remedy vitamins, Airborne.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. One of my favorite parts about Mixx is that the founders are reading and responding to user feedback — even on my blog. Perhaps this could be a future blog post?

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MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals. Calling attention to mobile apps?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2008

It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number. Blog posts have been written and buried once a user submitted it to Digg.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

If you’re blogging in a personal capacity, ask permission before going forth with it. Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Thanks Deb! I’ve elected to have a closed network.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months. He says, “The use of Twitter was mainly for the brevity and ability to drive traffic to our blog and booking site rogersmith.com. and still have nothing to show for it.

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JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

After I had expressed my thoughts in my blog post, I had an exchange with Louis on Twitter about comment fragmentation. I’ve learned to adapt by integrating those conversations on my blog wherever I can (as you can see, Richard Cunningham just posted on Louis’s site and you can read it here. This is a win-win approach.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Forrester’s recent report about the growth of the market has earned plenty of blog pick up.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Had it been something weird like paid positive blog posts like a few companies had started doing, it would be a different story. that exclusion for some advocates is not taken as a negative, i.e., it changes their positive blog to a negative or neutral (they stop promoting) and 2. The main drawbacks would be (as noted by BarbaraKB) 1.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Development Social Media Learn to Walk Before You Run Sun, Nov 2, 2008 Enterprise 2.0 , Social Media Image courtesy of Flickr user karen.j.ybanez “Why aren’t people using it?&# Asking this group of users to go from this to using a wiki was a gigantic step that they weren’t ready to take. Government 2.0 The Whole. :

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JANUARY 5, 2009

What are the most popular sites in these age groups? Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post.

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JULY 8, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on July 8, 2008 Share With many individuals finding great success with social media (and as an aside, a basic understanding of search engine optimization ), they immediately consider themselves social media marketers and consultants (as well as seasoned SEOs) and offer to sell their promotional services.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. These characteristics give the blogs mentioned below fame, fortune, and loyal followings. Want to build your blog and following? Blogs like Mashable and Gizmodo offer a consistent stream of stories every single day.

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JULY 21, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Opinion , Social Media > Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals by Tamar Weinberg on July 21, 2008 Share This is a guest post from kd kelly. Did your room just light up???

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s my list for 2008. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. 40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community.

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MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Don’t post it on your blog. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. You should still consider your blog or website as a viable way to build community and/or to drive sales and conversions.

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MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old. Who said that blogging was dead? Customer Service.

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JULY 29, 2008

An Interview with Language Trainers, Creators of the Accent Game by Tamar Weinberg on July 29, 2008 Share If you haven’t yet seen the Language Trainers Accent Game , it has won the “best viral marketing strategy of 2008″ (in my eyes). Tamar : What does your company do?

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Secrets of Twitter Hashtags (For Those Still Unsure) by Interactive Insights Group. 51% of active Twitter users follow companies, brands or products on social networks.

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MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. Feel free to add your story to the comments or in your own blog post.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

My industry (internet marketing/blogging) connections (who are 99.7% There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter. Consider the difference between my friendship circle in 2007 (graph featured below). It’s not.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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MARCH 17, 2010

or “So do you blog on the interwebs all day, or sumthin?&# So I challenged myself to create a list of 10 responsibilities of the Community Manager that extend beyond the realm of Facebook and Twitter (and yes, even blogging). You can follow him at @tweetamar or on his blog at itamarkestenbaum.com. Photos by Shutterstock.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

The collection begins with posts that start in January of 2008 and have been collected and shared in the last 12 months. Like last year, I’ve grouped them into different categories and written short descriptions on each post. New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you!

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MARCH 10, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Interviews , Social Media , Websites > SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version) SXSW: Mark Zuckerberg Keynote (the edited liveblogged version) by Tamar Weinberg on March 10, 2008 Share Greetings all from SXSW!

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JUNE 3, 2009

Scott Reply David October 25, 2007 at 10:36 pm What amazing blog post at an amazingly difficult time. Reply Google Tutor January 18, 2008 at 2:20 pm Tamar, thanks for sharing, great to see in this on the web. Reply Ruud Hein January 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm The 1st time around I left no comment. Our thoughts are with you!

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JANUARY 26, 2010

And you there with the SEO/tech blog, that goes for you too. Keep in mind that sharing only a particular website or blog is a very common reason for people being banned from SU. I have also heard/read this in some blog post and I don’t think that it’s entirely accurate information.

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