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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FriendFeed’s activity for me has ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m incredibly active. The real-time aspect lacks persistence and contributes to items just flowing by when no one is active. Sometimes I’m not (like now).

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. I noticed someone asking for advice.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition. It’s a brave (???)

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community. Of course, Ron Paul’s supporters were very active on social media sites and they didn’t get the results they wanted. Ignore them at your peril.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tips include being active and tweeting daily, limiting using Twitter for broadcasting, focusing on company-wide social media policies, and more. This article presents fourteen tips for achieving this goal, most of which are common sense but which may inspire you to get more active.

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

LillyBarb’s daughter Gabrielle, who had been very active in the early stages of the discussion, stopped responding to the posts. At this writing the pretense is still active on StumbleUpon, and all of the plagiarized content is still up on the commerce-based websites. Prove to me it all was donated, and then we can talk.

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

And at the very least, claim your identity on the applicable (and at the minimum, popular) social media communities before someone else does whose presence — under your name — could be detrimental to your marketing efforts. And get your account started and active immediately. Be proactive, not reactive. My mistake.