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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch. There are even more bloggers. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. There are thousands of public relations professionals. Guess what?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Social Events (e.g.,

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Go Beyond Blogging – Multi-Channel Marketing via Online Media

ProBlogger

I’m not surprised if bloggers claim that 40-60 percent of their traffic come from search engines. This is possible if you have insider access to news, but if you don’t, being one of the first to blog about a story may result in links from A-list blogs and news outlets. Send out press releases.

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How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing

ProBlogger

I’m not surprised if bloggers claim that 40-60 percent of their traffic come from search engines. This is possible if you have insider access to news, but if you don’t, being one of the first to blog about a story may result in links from A-list blogs and news outlets. Send out press releases.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media.

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A blogger might say that he wants to write for a specific publication, sending emails and instant messages asking, “Hey, I really like that you write for this publication. &# Marketing type folk, especially those representing a company’s service or product offerings, turn to blogs and ask to be mentioned in the blog.

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