Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

A handy way to supplement your email contact list with information about those prospects from the most popular social networks. Check dozens of popular social networking and social bookmarking websites to see if the username or vanity url you want to use is still available. Share this on Technorati. JustUnfollow.

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Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos 206

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. It seems the activity level has fallen off. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this. Answers Yahoo!

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Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

When people are actively engaging with and reflecting on their professional experiences, which blogging encourages us to do, thats where ongoing learning really takes place. for Learning Professionals Ning where were on day three of the course, one of the more active forum discussions has been on getting value out of LinkedIn.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. The social side is interesting when it comes up in B2B or B2C. Go join that! Popularity: 17% [ ?

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Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Penguin, announced in April 2012, decreased search visibility of websites that participated in black-hat SEO, keyword stuffing, cloaking, link schemes , duplicate content, and other activities that violated Google Webmaster Guidelines. Complete your social network and forum profiles. See the first paragraph of this post as an example.

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Blogger Tools Tips Hubpages 42

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way. Answers Yahoo!

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Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Let the Social Media Traffic Quality Analysis Begin In order to answer the question of whether niche social media drives higher quality traffic, two social networks were chosen for analysis — one generic and one niche. Users are actively seeking information that will enhance their professional knowledge.

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Half of all Americans are now members of at least one social network, and that figure rises to 67% for 25- to 34-year olds. Essential Topics for an Organizational Social Media Policy. . Social sharing sites (e.g. Social bookmarking sites (e.g. Social Media Objectives. Share this on Technorati.

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Policies Social Media Guidelines Plaxo 180

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

Eric Papczun delves into three key components of online reputation management: SEO (long-term promotion of content in search), paid search (SEM—addresses immediate needs), and social media (message distribution and brand engagement). Social Media and Search Optimization Integration by SEO Wizardry. Share this on Technorati.

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Tips Press Release Reputation B2B 179

SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Then, listen to their social media activity and determine what content would meet their needs… not yours. 6) Setting up channels, placing links to them on your Website and then ignoring the social channels is a really good way to p**s people off in the social space. Don’t be that business.

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Social Media Klout YouTube Foursquare 279

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2011

In another guest post, Pat Flynn details five benefits of actively responding to comments on your blog, such as the fact that doing so encourages more comments: “People don’t leave comments just so they can be left unread. use automated social bookmarking tools like IMAutomater and Shareaholic tips for increasing traffic to your blog.

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Tips Sysomos SEO WordPress 176

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The following is a simplified example. After you’ve picked a topic, the next step is to find people more knowledgeable about it than you are and then socialize with them. Blog-communities provide the perfect context for this activity. Blogs are a highly social medium. Leverage the Power of Social-Bookmarking.

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FeedBurner Web 2.0 RSS Education 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, the priorities for a PLE are different for a tertiary student, a university administrator, an instructor, a working professional, or an adult who persues an eclectic path of lifelong learning. This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks.

Web 2.0 165

Web 2.0 Wiki Metadata Social Bookmarking 165

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? A powerful real-time social search engine that not only displays results for a specified term or phrase, but lets you filter results by source (e.g.,

Tools 188

Tools Social Media Radian6 CoTweet 188

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Analytics & Research In a survey across thousands of large companies who actively monitor their stats online, only 35% stated that they actually changed their website based on what they saw. For example, I use Gmail for my email, but I login with an @viperchill.com address and have even replaced the Gmail logo with my own.

Resources 77

Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Adam Singer identifies situations where social media marketing doesn’t make sense (e.g. Aliza Sherman supplies an outstanding list of “basic ways you can use LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter for specific business activities. Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires by Mashable. Social scoring will change your life.

Social Media 198

Social Media Tools Tips ROI 198

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

The more active you are on StumbleUpon, the more opportunity there is for you to grow your network and expose your own content to more and more StumbleUpon users. Relationship opportunities on StumbleUpon are endless, especially since it’s a social bookmarking service based on interests. Very nice of you. Excellent tips.

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StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

It also gets your site listed in Technorati and other blog aggregation services. I guarantee that if you do not activate this, you’ll soon be going crazy with all the russian spam and porn links appearing on your website. Google engineer Matt Cutts wrote that Google frowns on this sort of activity so use it at your own risk.

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RSS WordPress FeedBurner SEO 78

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. Keyword stuffing, for example, might have worked 5 years ago, but it’s not a successful tactic anymore.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more. by Kuno Creative.

Social Media 200

Social Media Tools Strategy Tips 200

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Build ego searches using Technorati and Google Blogsearch. account for social bookmarking. Use your listening tools to stay active in pertinent discussions. Get a del.icio.us

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Social Media Brands Technorati RSS 280