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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you need help at a bank and speak to the teller but the teller remains silent, is that good business practice? I’m sure that if iTunes actually included the customer in its feed, and if other Apple departments followed suit, there would be a whole lot more followers and satisfied customers. Is that even professional?

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The Blog Is Dead: Long Live the Blog

ProBlogger

Blogging is about content and community. If we break the web into the categories functionality-based sites (like online banking and ecommerce stores) and content-based sites, we see that there’s often not a whole lot of difference between “blogs&# and other sites in the content category. Blogging is about publishing.

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Tamar Weinberg is a Media Snacker » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Whereas before when computers were only found in banks and offices, media snackers have access at home, in school, or in libraries — all for free. Previously, to have a mobile phone, you needed a large bank account. Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? It scares me.

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Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. 18 Ways To Engage Users Online (A Guide for Community Managers) From Angela Connor: A Free PDF ebook with advice on how to get people to engage and interact with your community.

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Corporate Social Media Reading List

Koka Sexton

How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. 18 Ways To Engage Users Online (A Guide for Community Managers) From Angela Connor: A Free PDF ebook with advice on how to get people to engage and interact with your community.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s easy for people to tweet about bank robberies and to photograph live displays of computer errors in public places. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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