The Way of the Web

AUGUST 23, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Making some real world changes… A lot to (Halo) Reach for… → Should Philadelphia be taxing bloggers? The bloggers in question have earned as little as $11 in two years. The initial response was that Philly was being ridiculous, as ReadWriteWeb and Marketing Pilgrim both show.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

What content will this blog have that you won’t be find anywhere else? I’ve found that there are a ton of resources about the principles of social media and how those principles can be applied externally. link] An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog | Social Media Strategery [.] The Whole. :

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← How Leo LaPorte is saving my relationship… The best social games on any platform… → Should PR and Marketing pay bloggers to post? But by removing the emerging practice of paid posts, suddenly one relatively easy method of generating income has been removed for bloggers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on January 19, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Samir Balwani , the founder of Training Social , a resource for those interested in social media training. This inherent cost needs to be included in any equations you make when allocating resources. Is Social Media Worth it for You? Could I add one to your list?

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Keep providing guidance and resources to your employees. Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. Customers change, the needs of communities change, technology changes, social media changes, everything changes and is dynamic. And there is always the next new thing.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Joe Pulizzi’s new book Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter and Win More Customers by Marketing Less (McGraw-Hill, 2013). Repurpose All Your Content. This means thinking mobile first as part of your channel strategy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. This turns bloggers sour, thinking that everyone in public relations or blogger outreach is just a spammer. It’s time consuming to look at which bloggers to target, read posts, and then write a personal message to the blogger along with the actual pitch.

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Jason Yormark

JANUARY 12, 2010

If you are a serious blogger or a digital marketer, it’s a must have. It’s one of the few resources that is free that allows you to monitor keywords across the web. Of course this only really works if you use Feedburner (which many bloggers do), but my blog subscribers skyrocketed once I started using FriendFeed.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 13, 2010

Not just for traffic (although that was nice) but really just to get to know other bloggers. I had to make a choice between continuing to comment on a lot of sites, or spend that time focusing on the content I put on my site. The Disqus commenting system. In mid-December, I was able to make time for blog commenting again.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

After all, spending time, money, and other precious resources on social media marketing before you have an understanding of what it can do for you is kind of like putting the cart before the horse (not advisable). Interest them with compelling and useful content, contests and giveaways, etc. Why do businesses need social media?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 3, 2017

A lot of bloggers barely plan their posts (if they plan them at all). While some bloggers feel that planning kills their spontaneity, I find a plan liberating. Prominent bloggers who removed comments – Steve Pavlina, Seth Godin, Copyblogger (brought them back), Michael Hyatt (brought them back). – Use Disqus / FB comments.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

To increase the odds of meaningful conversational engagement, the initial dialogue should be ultra-resourceful…or humorous…or controversial…or valuable…or… How to do this successfully? Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Smart, optimized content. And guess what?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Get Your Blog Read and Followed When it comes to the internet, there’s one golden rule that stands head and shoulders above the others: content is king. It is vital to master writing great content on your blog.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The fear is that a few thousand writers will produce enough content to severely distort the internet ecosystem and lead to a web ruled by low-quality content which targets the lowest common denominator. Now they’re about to get hit by an army of content writers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

But yet, despite perhaps not having substantial manpower or resources available, Epic Change has made waves of epic proportions in the social media charity world — at least from my perspective. It’s emotional content in whatever media you express yourself best in.&# He calls this “social media human resources.&#

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Unfortunately, the same lack of content leverage applies to photographs as well. Why isn’t the Manifesto it’s own tab? Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Your personal brand can take some good points if you communicate to yourself and to others that you are into the creation of your brand and that you are prepared to spend the time, money, and other resources to make it the best in its field. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2013

These articles are powerful, but often I find myself speaking with people who don’t have a blog yet, or are using Blogger or custom made, cumbersome platforms. We’ll go through a step-by-step process, including tools and resources for each step, to set up a WordPress blog that is optimized for social and search marketing success.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

If you’ve ever spent a Sunday evening clearing out the contents of a website or blog anti-spam filter, you’ll identify with the decision of Dave Winer to turn off the comments on Scripting News. And having commented on Twitter and received some replies from Dave, I wanted to expand on the subject.

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SocMed Sean

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Recognizing A Blog-Owner VS. A Blogger. Interestingly enough, there are also 2 types of bloggers. They surround themselves with every gadget, book, and resource they can leverage to improve their content, enhance their writing skills, and even make more money. They worry about terms like: monetizing content for a blog.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

Recently, a group of green bloggers banded together to raise individual $1 donations from their readers. Among other things, it is a social media experiment and the exploration of a new content distribution model. This content was originally written by Mashable’s Josh Catone. You can follow Max Gladwell on Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Each of these strategies requires different tactics, resources and success metrics. link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Are you using Facebook just because of its size, or do you have a concrete rationale for participation? Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content. Thanks for sharing such a superfantastic resource. Thanks for sharing such a superfantastic resource. Thanks for sharing such a superfantastic resource. Will tweet and FB now. link] Jon Buscall Great project, great interviews! Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. Incidentally, these internal links are also a SEO positive) 4.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

An argument that I often hear is, “why should I spend the time hassling with some blogger with a few thousand readers, when millions read the New York Times? Aren’t I wasting resources that could be used on securing media with a larger audience? Reaching out to an influential blogger is like knocking down that first domino.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms. link] ethan Hi Josh, Great feedback will share with the team. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing , Social Media > Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content Top 6 Ideas for Incredible Viral Content by Tamar Weinberg on October 29, 2007 Share As many of us alluded to earlier this month at SMX Social Media , viral content is king.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 12, 2009

In collaboration with Chris and a few other team members, we pitched the idea to our leadership as a low-cost, low-resource opportunity to network, collaborate on some of the tough issues facing our team, learn from other members of the team, and have an opportunity to get involved with the rest of the team beyond their individual project teams.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Since then, Bulbstorm has run several more Idea Challenges promotions for Tornados, with a success level that’s pretty astounding. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

And every year, I hand pick the best articles that I’ve read and compile them in a resource that I hope will last a long time. I painstakingly go through these resources with the hopes that these posts will serve as references for you in years to come. What Makes People Share Content? Here’s my list for 2008.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. Create a content ladder to leverage and syndicate your content.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

McCann : We know not just identities, but also a second order of information about your content publishing frequency, density, and topical focus. And even another order that includes content interactions – who consumers and retweets your content? We can now associate a tremendous amount of data to individuals.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Have them document EVERY question they receive. This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. The appetite for tools content is huge. Extra resources are important.

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