Remove Applications Remove Examples Remove Microblogging Remove Social Bookmarking
article thumbnail

Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly Still not sure how to take action on this rule of thumb?

article thumbnail

10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. 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. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

His second point got me me thinking about what I’m going to write about now – in what ways can the government use social media to make a difference in their day, TODAY? What are those things that they can do with very little effort where they can start see the value in social media?

Gov 2.0 56
article thumbnail

3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The short answer for me is usually applicable to everyone, though. 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.

article thumbnail

How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Beyond learning about your users, FriendFeed allows users to comment on content within the site itself.

Plaxo 103
article thumbnail

Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Reply kevin May 9, 2008 at 9:15 am Rankings on social media breeds a pointless competitiveness that I just don’t get. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart.

Digg 100
article thumbnail

20+ Cool Social Media and Web Tools

Webbiquity SMM

Need a way to edit video and photos without the expense and overhead of a pricey editing application? You’ll find all of this and more in this collection of tools and reviews of some of the coolest free or low-cost social media monitoring and web tools so far this year. Twitter) and social content sharing sites.

Tools 188