Almost Savvy

AUGUST 17, 2010

In fact, the net result is that the business comes off looking disconnected and less interested in their community than they are in hawking their wares. It seems like the cool thing to do, sure, but does that make it smart? In short, no. Bad form all around. Spammy posts are all about them. No @ replies, no engagement. (Or

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Its awesome to have a lot of friends, and even more so being active in the hottest blog communities. But with messages coming in from other MyBlogLog members & the communities you follow, on top of your many friend requests and updates, we understand that sometimes all those alerts can be a bit much. XOXO, Tilly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You can also choose a very aggressive spam filtering method that will consider any DM with a URL as spam. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Tweet content: URLs. If a high percentage of the user’s Tweets are filled with URLs, you might not have an interest.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Even though we're all just the text of our name or a simple avatar/pic to each other, we're all real people inside. We've been talking about what “our community&# looks to our blog for, and a quick peek at the blog analytics showed me that over 60% of visitors are first timers and not long time readers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

You could also add your social media profile URLs on your business cards, in your catalogues, on your flyers, etc. Another way you can integrate is using your social profile URLs as your website when leaving comments. If you are AT&T and your avatar was the face of your CEO, you’re doing it wrong. Thanks, Kwame.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. btw, mind using full URLs in the future and not shortened ones?

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