Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

I got hooked on the Star Tribune Twolves message board in 2002 and haven’t looked back. Although I don’t post very much at all these days, I still read the threads on Twolvescentral.com (Star Tribune kind of killed the boards) on my iPhone every day. link] Opinion@Large Great topic/analysis.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Good stuff.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

How User Generated Content is Changing SEO : This is an analysis of how search results changed in the last year alone and how it impacts your business. How Social Media Affects Content Relevance in Search : Why is social media so important? Here’s an analysis of the impacts of doing so. Get more reviews, people!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). The genius of this plug-in (and the reason it’s named after Seth Godin) is that you can set one message for first-time visitors, and a second message for repeat visitors.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

Facebook for me is a lot of work, for a small audience of people who are not in the learn, buy or convert mode. Twitter is the one social network where you can really be someone’s “friend”, as cheesy and rainbow-filled as that sounds. Forums Message boards are really the first internet form of social media, after IRC.

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Twist Image

JUNE 12, 2012

When people got more comfortable with the Web and browsing on their own, the beginning of blogs and message boards (which happened in parallel) were an indie-like fairground for independence. By forcing websites to build in-Facebook apps, the online social network is able to keep consumers locked in on Facebook, without ever leaving.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. So while we manage many pages, we don’t buy FB advertising for all of them, some clients do it through their media buying agency.

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