Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 21, 2012

But just because you took the red pill and woke up to the fact that social media has to be a part of your 2012 marketing activities, the question still remains “How” Those who don’t quite “get it” will do things like: Take their traditional print copy, digitize it, post it on a microsite, and tweet about it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

The 1-9-90 theory that says out of every hundred people who join a community or network – 1% actively contribute – 9% contribute from time to time – and 90% are lurkers. Share this on Facebook. Facebook Location Based Services Podcasting Social Media Social Networking Twitter Wiki. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

It identifies the individuals that have influence over potential buyers, and orients marketing activities around these influencers. But the group that excites me the most is the Advocates – I want to grow that budding community – I want to offer them special access to news and previews of our latest product. Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2012

When my company, Small Business Trends, LLC, first purchased BizSugar in the summer of 2009, the best way I could describe it was as a miniature version of Digg, except that BizSugar focused soley on sharing information geared toward small and mid-sized businesses. Work on Building a Community. A community does not build itself.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said. Go join that!

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams? So what should NBA teams be doing on Twitter and Facebook?

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Cos that’s a friend no?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Be sure to build trust by adding value to the community consistently over time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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Myrland Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Home About Services Social Media Speaking-Training LMA Contact Subscribe Myrland Marketing Minutes Strategic Social Media: Making Social Media Make Sense SOCIAL MEDIA: ARE FACEBOOK GAMES DRIVING YOU CRAZY? 50% of active users log on to Facebook in any given day. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Kids aren’t on Facebook as much now as they used to be. Moms, on the other hand, aren’t hanging around Digg or Linkedin. This runs the risk of spreading you and your resources too thin to actively test any marketing strategy and it may wear you down as well. Be Active in the Community. Follow Your Target Market.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Firebelly

MAY 21, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Two Easy Ways To Still Get People To Your Facebook Landing Tab | Main | YouTube Tuesday: Im A Social Media Guru! Can you really send grandma a printed newsletter of your Facebook updates? Then select profiles of your Facebook contacts who you want to include in the newsletter.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

The reason is that most powerhouse social media sites like Facebook and YouTube put a small piece of code called ‘the no follow’ tag into most areas of their site. Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. An article submission site in the Digg vein.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. 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.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612. MH Group Communications says that “Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612.

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As an example, Bloomberg Businessweek cites that fewer than 4,000 Facebook users have clicked the “like” button for Fidelity’s Page and about 9,000 have done so for Vanguard’s. million people say they like Apple iTunes on Facebook. Activities Least Likely to Give Up for a Week by Generation X and Y. Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 2, 2010

You can call it Inbound Marketing (like the folks at HubSpot do) or you could call it Content Marketing (like the folks at Junta42 do) but whatever you call it this is the basis for all your online activity. Share this on Facebook. Stay tuned to this blog for more updates and to see how we are doing that! Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 8, 2011

Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. I still get the old, "Twitter just sounds stupid to me," or "why would anybody want to post all of their personal information on Facebook ?" It's called Quora. albert sheu.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 12, 2012

The macro theory here is that Blogging is a part of Social Media which inherently means that the spirit of community needs to be present. Forget the popularity of platforms like Twitter , Facebook , Google+ , LinkedIn and more. They can share the link on Facebook. They can comment on the link that they shared on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

In a long-ago interview with Wired , Professor & Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defined a person being in the “Flow” as Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. If you want to get better at using social media, try to channel how you behave at your “social peak” into your social media activities. Time flies.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

Home About In the Media Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) How People Respond to Your Online Content March 8, 2010.1:39 In addition, Sriram Vadlamani has talked about it on the Asian Correspondent site Quotes from the Asian Correspondent Story Many companies are using Twitter actively and many users are on Twitter but not much activity.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 1, 2011

In this article, I’m looking at process vs product journalism, representational democracy falling over, the demise of capitalism, authoritarian aspects of traditional media AND online community hosts e.g. Twitter and the newly found power of Crowd Activism. Not bad for a Sunday morning in rainy Sydney!

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Share this on Facebook. Instead, they want to connect. Rich Meyer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Already, however, it’s gaining momentum among “Digg refugees&# and folks who don’t feel comfortable on other social networks. Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. See the surge? Ride the wave!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# More importantly, Epic Change has a mission to empower individuals to tell stories in order to acquire financial resources to make positive change in their communities. Why social media?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories. 3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following.

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 18, 2010

If you install the Aardvark Facebook application, you can get answers to your questions quickly and easily. Take Advantage of Facebook Tools. Join Online Shopping Communities. Share this on Facebook. Once you let it access your account, you then need to add Aardvark to your friend list within your IM client. Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more. What tasks are more important to developing a popular community versus developing a popular blog?

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Idaconcpts

DECEMBER 15, 2010

If you want your online business to be successful then you need to actively market your business. Establish active forums. In contrast, pull marketing is about drawing from your community of customers and responding to them to create additional loyalty and demand for your brand. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Many people use forums, blogs and different social networks for communication and ideas sharing. The business owners are the ones, who participate the most actively – apart from searching for problem solutions and potential partners they set goals to attract attention to their creative projects or businesses via those social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Don’t self promote. I noticed someone asking for advice.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home About In the Media Dear Airtel: It is about Customers & Conversations Facebook and India August 3, 2010.6:07 Time has passed by and since then, Facebook has grown to half a billion global users and would fall next only to China and India if it were a country. The bottom line is, Facebook isn’t a one size fits all solution.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2007

51 am Linkedin v/s Facebook – Professional up Against Social Jump to Comments Matt Dickman’s thoughtful post on Linkedin v/s Facebook raises a few questions. Everybody knows and has been saying that Facebook is Personal and Linkedin is more Business users. October 31, 2007.10:51 It is more in the mind set.

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