yMarketingMatters

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

It’s obvious that social media will continue to have a significant impact in 2014 on marketers and business owners: They now have the ability to reach out and communicate on a personal level with their target audience on a daily basis. billion monthly active users. There are 128 million daily active Facebook users in the US.

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Social Media Mobile YouTube Social Networking 279

SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Help them understand that there are ways they can listen to their community, leverage feedback, and improve their business. Unfortunately, many clients have kneejerk reactions to trolls and sometimes feel like they are representing the thoughts/opinions of the rest of their community. Social can do both. Feel free to add them!

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Social Media Social CRM Creative Commons Sentiment 255

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). Extracurricular programs combine summer programs, vacations, and related activities. LinkedIn is a industry tool.

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MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

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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Influencer B2B Marketing Wikipedia 194

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 Linkedin. Tags: Blogging Communities Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0 Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Social Media Lurker Crowdsourcing Wiki 207

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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Social Media Tumblr StumbleUpon Digg 280

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Drive Leads through LinkedIn. Offer value.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Moms, on the other hand, aren’t hanging around Digg or Linkedin. There are countless places to be social online, but there’s no sense in selling your craft projects to teenagers on Tumblr or Professionals on LinkedIn. Be Active in the Community. They are over at Tumblr – are you? They are over there at Pinterest.

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Trends Social Media Tumblr Campaign 142

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead by Tamar Weinberg on January 12, 2010 Share Here’s a truism that Facebook PR is not sure how to readily admit. Digg is now part of social media and will be explained in the final chart.

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Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

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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Social Media NoFollow Marketing Social Bookmarking 159

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

If you didn’t have the ‘no-follow’ tag, spammers would create thousands of Facebook profiles, LinkedIn profiles, and YouTube accounts just to link those sites back to their website. Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. Very active with highly engaged users.

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Hubpages Digg Foursquare Repository 167

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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Social Media Research ROI Technorati 191

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 link to the Blog post on LinkedIn and also comment on it there. But things have changed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Create your own marketing system I recommend that people take a portion of their day to learn as much as they can about what people are saying about them, as well as review competitor and partner activities, and peruse industry trends and case studies. Instead, join the top four networks: Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Social Media Brands How To Social Networking 240

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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LinkedIn Web 2.0 Facebook Startup 100

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 Linkedin. Stay tuned to this blog for more updates and to see how we are doing that! Tweet This!

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B2B Engagement Marketing Sentiment 206

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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Social Media Chemicals Wikipedia MySpace 208

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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Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

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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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

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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Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

The Marketing Blog

MARCH 8, 2010

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. Also, knowing the reason behind in active companies – lack of interest / confidence / resources / knowledge ?

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Study Company Web 2.0 Twitter 180

Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

What Bloomberg Businessweek and other critics fail to understand is that social media activity is not a proper way to measure whether members of Generation X and Y are accessing their bank accounts mostly online. Activities Least Likely to Give Up for a Week by Generation X and Y. Share this on LinkedIn. Conclusion. Tweet This!

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Banking Mobile SMS Technorati 137

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Choose metrics that make the most sense for the tactics you’re employing, and monitor results to determine which activities to increase and where a change of course may be needed. Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Particularly in social media, let the community decide what content has value and what is spam.

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Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption.

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Content Privacy StumbleUpon Digg 100

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 LinkedIn. Tweet This!

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Press Release Strategy Forums Marketing 151

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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Social Media Case Study MySpace Yahoo 172

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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Review Digg StumbleUpon Web 2.0 102

The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

43 pm 3 Ways to Analyze Facebook Fan Page Traffic Jump to Comments NOTE : I had recently scribbled my thoughts on Facebook Insights for India’s growing B2B marketing community www.paulwriter.com. The bottom-line is that as a marketer you would certainly want to measure the impact and effect of your activities on any channel.

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Facebook Web 2.0 Startup Applications 185

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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Social Media Yahoo Discount Training 164

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? Ask your blog’s readers to follow you on Twitter, subscribe to your YouTube channel, add you on LinkedIn, or “Like” you on Facebook. Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure? What activities bring you more positive results?

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck?

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StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Kikolani

JULY 28, 2010

Scribnia is an excellent blogging community that lets you connect with and review other blog writers. Some that I am particularly fond of are Blog Engage (blogger’s social bookmarking site), Blogger Den (the alternative to Digg for bloggers), and BloggerLuv. For Reviews. Submit yourself and your sites to the following networks.

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List Alltop Forums Technorati 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Thought Linkedin would have deserved a slot. It seems the activity level has fallen off. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

Social Media Network Marketing

JANUARY 1, 2011

In the online world of Social Media we have the well known sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on. The popular ones are Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon and so on. We have an active Social Media community at my Facebook Business Page. Social Bookmarking sites are handy at two levels.

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Social Bookmarking Sites Social Media Delicious 78

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join Online Shopping Communities. This site is sufficiently active enough to provide some great information that’s updated regularly, it’s moderated well so there’s no spam or irrelevant content, and it has a simple interface so new users integrate quickly. Share this on LinkedIn. GAP, Wal-Mart, Amazon etc). Tweet This!

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Questions Social Media iPhone Applications 137

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. Have you read The New Community Rules ? I don’t really do it — it doesn’t jive with me and the messages don’t really resonate with my community — but the options are out there.

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Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272