article thumbnail

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.,

Review 152
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. However, if you want really good coverage, you’ll do it.

article thumbnail

Super list of 50 social media links - Koka Sexton dot Com

Koka Sexton

10 Habits of Highly Efficient Social Media Power Users Blogger or Mind-Reader? blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 50 social media links. [.] ¬ Social bookmarking is a cornerstone to my marketing.

List 85
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 One blogger mentioned it in a review.

article thumbnail

10 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Killer Social Media Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested.

article thumbnail

10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Delicious Social bookmarking is a great way to share interesting links that could aid in the development of an idea, education, and/or marketing efforts. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users.