Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 16, 2013

Social media is good for more than just marketing or schmoozing. Here are a few I recommend: Google Alerts. Google Reader. Google will notify you when those keywords are mentioned online – in a blog post, on a website, in social media, or wherever. TweetDeck or HootSuite.

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Laurel Papworth

JULY 4, 2012

I teach classes on social media monitoring – computer classes – and the students set up iGoogle to find and monitor Media, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, images, key influencers, keywords, CEO and brand mentions and so on. Google Reader doesn’t have gadgets. Could Google have done better?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. In fact, I have to go on record right now as saying that reading blogs is only a small part of what makes blogs powerful for learning. RANT ALERT! )

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can also follow these directions for adding Buffer to your Google Reader. Then you can share posts you are reading in Google Reader to your Buffer. Considering the way I use Google Reader , this is a definite plus. per month for unlimited social accounts and posts in buffer. My Twitter Strategy.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 17, 2012

This Week in Social Media by Social Media Examiner – A weekly recap of the latest news and features directly from your favorite social networks and application providers. Photography Links by Light Stalking – Recaps aren’t limited to just online marketing blogs. Productivity Tip.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

With the breadth and depth of social media services out there, it’s no wonder that we often find ourselves lost in the vast array of services. Shannon Paul is a social media manager at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and blogs on social media for business at Very Official Blog.

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Kikolani

MAY 4, 2011

I am a huge supporter of using certain Twitter automation tools applications to help users manage their Twitter accounts and give them more time to focus on other things, like actually interacting with their followers. Even My Favorite Blogs Have a Few Posts I’d Rather Not Share. Here’s why. Follow me on Twitter.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Overwhelmed by following too many people on social networks or subscribing to too many blogs. Here are some simple ways to organize your sources of incoming information on social media, email, and blogs. I have a habit of subscribing to blogs that I like, and so do many other people. StumbleUpon Shares.

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Justin Levy

JULY 23, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking 12 Cloud-Based Tools to Stay Productive Written on July 23, 2010 by Justin Levy in communications , organization , productivity , technology 2 Comments - Leave a comment! I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Let’s start with the blog post. I am a huge advocate of the business blog.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is Episode 30 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Eric Schwartzman , online social media training provider, entrepreneur and the best-selling co-author of Social Marketing to the Business Customer. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 5, 2008

Social Media Consumption: You Want Signal or Discovery? Filed under: mba — Tags: friendfeed , social media — Hutch Carpenter @ 10:18 pm. In yesterday’s post A Definition of Noise , I talked about two types of social media consumers. Both for time spent on social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Social Media > Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service by Tamar Weinberg on June 18, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Samir Balwani of Internet Marketing blog Left the Box.com.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

There may also be times where you want to only share writing by you, and if you have a lot of guest bloggers on your site as well as guest posts on other sites, having a full RSS feed for your blog won’t do. CDATA[Social Media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">[link]. <description>

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Alicia Keys knows how to do it. Users who sign up see a second video with a thank you message from Keys.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 14, 2013

These activities typically involve collaboration with multiple groups including tech, edit and audience development as well as the SEO, PR and social media teams. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS. Social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

And these three social networks, which were based on very similar concepts, predated the Facebook that we know and love today. As I commented on the VentureBeat blog post, I knew about the concept of a Facebook before it even caught on. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Over the years, other services came online, Delicious got acquired by Yahoo , RSS readers (like Google Reader ) came into play and, well, things just started getting messy again. From taking physical notes of things to check out, to using Google Reader to having specific folders in my email program for areas of interest.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over by Tamar Weinberg on May 12, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Hugo Guzman.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the more interesting, maybe even downright controversial aspects of social media is actually measuring results. This morning, when I popped onto HootSuite, I saw this tweet from Brankica of How to Blog Like a Star. It’s bloody difficult to track every bit of traffic from social media in Google Analytics!

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a software application and people follow your product, by all means, set up a Twitter feed and let your users subscribe! A social media user might want to call people’s attention to a recent stumble, blog post, or website. Twitter can indeed satisfy many goals.

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Kikolani

JUNE 4, 2013

Today, I’m going to look at one that can help you find new people to connect with, identify the most valuable people in your community, cut through the noise, and strengthen relationships with those who are most important to your business or blog. Social Media' Why I Use Commun.it. See who you should follow or unfollow.

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Ari Herzog

JULY 16, 2010

You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. You will comply with all applicable data protection and privacy laws relating to Your use of the Service and the collection of information from visitors to Your websites.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve been including it in my e-signature for a while now, and have incorporated it into my website as well as this blog (you’ve probably noticed the Tungle widget on this blog, even if you haven’t used it). When people use it instead of email to schedule meetings, it really saves time. But I should try it.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Business , Websites > You Can Learn a Great Deal from a 17-Year-Old You Can Learn a Great Deal from a 17-Year-Old by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2007 Share I must have first heard of Quizlet through Lifehacker.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Social media is exactly that: “social.&# If you’re going to dive in the social media world, you need to understand what it means to be “social.&# Empower them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging > How Young is Too Young? by Tamar Weinberg on June 10, 2010 Share I started blogging at age 20. Today, there are young bloggers who have their own websites and blogs. How Young is Too Young?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner is a powerful application that manages the more high level management Twitter tasks for you, from managing followers/friends to changing your profile design and then some. I have getting involved more and more with social media such as Facebook and Twitter for business clients and Tweet Spinner is definitely of great help.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > Is Social Media Becoming Boring? Is Social Media Becoming Boring? by Tamar Weinberg on April 14, 2010 Share For most, social media is new and fun.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old.

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