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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Let’s envision this scenario: a user has a support issue about an Apple product. Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. I’m going to stop there, though.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/19/2013

Social Media Marketing

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. It’s really mostly about chance, and like I mentioned earlier in the comments, luck and timing. Would you have known that it was created by an 18-year-old student in his spare time? It also depends on goals.

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves. Beyond the cool factor, Reddit is easily getting new users by paying attention to its user base and even creating surprises when not even necessary.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Apple = Innovation. includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff. RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Everytime they commented on his wall and complained, these comments were ‘auto liked’ which rubbed salt in the wounds. Reply Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 8:58 am Thanks for commenting, Lesley. Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags.