Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content by Adam Sherk on July 30, 2009 Executive quotes in press releases are notorious for lacking any kind of substantial information. Greg Jarboe July 31, 2009 at 6:03 pm Great example, Adam.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. This is all about content. If all you do is push content, then that’s a pretty one-sided relationship don’t you think? 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube.

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Kikolani

JULY 4, 2010

Without further ado, here are the contest sponsors with blogs enabled with CommentLuv for your content pleasure! FamousBloggers is a great site to find lots of informative bloggers who know how to educate their readers on the art of blogging , social networking , and making money online. CommentLuv Enabled Blogs List.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Reviews in particular offer a good opportunity for publishers as many content sites produce multiple types of reviews on a regular basis. Through Rich Snippets you can draw greater attention to your listings in the search results, which helps to increase clickthroughs to your content.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 28, 2009

CNN.com places a “Story Highlights” section with bullet points to the right of the headline, for example : While a great feature for users, article highlights are also an effective SEO technique. While editors and producers should always be encouraged to incorporate literal text in their headlines, in reality this won’t always happen.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The recent partnership between Foursquare and Canada’s Metro is a good early example of the potential that exists. Metro will provide Foursquare with location-specific editorial content such as reviews, tips and articles on points of interest. I’d love to see a partnership between The New York Times and Foursquare.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

As a blogger, there are numerous tools at your disposal to track how your content is doing. Another is the popular “Add This&# which also offers analytic information. Because if you are creating content, you are likely distributing and promoting that content in variety of ways, including social media.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

First, a quick look at how news content is currently being included in real-time search results. In its “Latest results” Google blends results from Google News and Google Blog Search with updates from Twitter and Facebook Pages, offering multiple paths in for news and content sites.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

News and content sites are a natural fit for participation and Facebook is encouraging news site adoption by showcasing sites that are already experimenting with it. So I thought I’d take a look at some early examples of Facebook Open Graph integration on news sites. You can jump to the end for the Takeaways ).

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

It looks great when there are a lot of retweets; when there aren’t many it can weaken user perceptions of the content. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It’s called Small Rivers , a tool for bloggers to network content and audiences started by a small team on the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL Campus, who wanted to find an easier and better way to connect communities of shared interests without having to leave their own website, blog or social network.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

In the rules of the promotion, or otherwise, you will not condition entry to the promotion upon taking any action on Facebook, for example, updating a status, posting on a profile or Page, or uploading a photo. But as of today (Monday) the sweepstakes content is still up on the JVC USA page and the promotion is still running.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 30, 2009

However from an SEO perspective there is a downside, as syndication creates duplicate content issues. Search engines don’t want to show users multiple versions of the same content, so when an article has been syndicated it’s likely that one version will be given prominence – and that may or may not be the original.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

search did have data on the URL in the most recent Muck Rack press release, reporting 65 clicks: That doesn’t measure up to the hundreds or thousands of clicks that popular content often gets via Twitter, but press releases are in a different category. So I wasn’t able to learn anything meaningful there.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

It is also interesting that despite that low score the profile is still in the 99.4th percentile: Perhaps @ColonelTribune is more popular among industry professionals (as an example of a great Twitter persona ) than typical users and news consumers. Or maybe Twitalyzer missed the boat on that one. What do you think?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

For example: Let’s say you are searching for volunteer opportunities in Silver Spring, Md. Relevant content is, and will continue to be, key to reaching searchers. If you focus on one thing, focus on this: creating timely, engaging content that meets the needs of your target audiences. received 13 percent.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

While designed to help Google News better interpret and categorize the content in the sitemaps, the tags also provide publishers with additional chances for exposure. It also has the potential to do the opposite; users may disregard non-editorial content such as press releases in greater volume now that it is easier to identify.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 2, 2008

So, while information is much more readily accessible and that changes some aspects of knowledge work, the bigger change is the ready access to more people and more of what they know. The key question is often â?? Mail (will not be published) (required). Subscribe to Viplav Baxis Meanderings by Email. formal methodologies. classroom learning.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

With this in mind, it is beneficial for news and content sites to take a diversified approach to Twitter, offering a range options for users to subscribe to. While the variations are limitless, the main opportunities include: Content Broadcasting – this is essentially RSS feeds on Twitter, used for simply pushing out links to new content.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Skip to content. My Blogroll. New information and concepts from outside the group can open members up to the possibility of improvement. For example, a powerful minority within the marketing department of a tool manufacturer engages a consultant to do a market survey. Contact Me. My Articles. My Workshops. Recommended.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

When you are posting online it is essential to make it as easy as possible for your readers to share your information with their networks. Now that your blog is done, you still need to find content to share with your networks throughout the rest of the week. Finding content to post can turn into a big “time suck”.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

I always referred to it as something like “a website with dynamic content and social media capabilities.” Our community was now creating the bulk of our content. With Google Analytics I can see if people are engaging with our blog’s content and then use that information to adapt to the preferences of site visitors.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

This person isn’t responsible for writing all of the content, but they can responsible for herding and nagging in addition to making sure that some specific strategic topics are being addressed on the blog The Other Details Blogroll. You can use this information to determine what people are most interested in.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

This person isn’t responsible for writing all of the content, but they can responsible for herding and nagging in addition to making sure that some specific strategic topics are being addressed on the blog The Other Details Blogroll. You can use this information to determine what people are most interested in.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

I compiled the figures by looking at the profile boxes on channel pages and from YouTube’s search results, for example: Not every site shares the same information in its profile but I pulled as much data as I could. So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 4, 2010

First and foremost is the ability to create official profiles and automatically submit content, which publishers are hoping will turn Digg into a friendlier place for mainstream media. For example Phoenix New Times, WGNTV and Seattle Weekly all have 0 followers as of today). But how will users respond to the new format?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Lead, don’t lecture In my view, a lecturer gives students information, expects them to listen, and assumes that they will absorb what they heard. Teach your readers to take ownership of content. This cultivates a thinking community where information is evaluated, and then adapted and built upon.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

You love classifying knowledge and organizing content into taxonomies. Andrea goes on to inform me that "Martin Roell and I will be starting an English languaguage collaborative blog in a couple of weeks.". I select recipients based on nature of content situation. Topic maps in content management. 2:30:10 PM. 1:22:30 AM.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2008

tools should be used strictly to enhance specific learning objectives set forth within a certain content area. concepts for students to think through, various resources and content segments to process, or ideas to construct.â?? there must be a certain amount of content preparationâ?? Multimedia Content. Reynard notes â??there

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

While government use of social media is often highlighted as best practice examples of open government, they’re by no means the only examples. Generate a greater variety of content on your site and update it regularly. “Upgrade your “Contact Us” form with a name and contact information&#.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 2, 2011

With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number. Here’s how we did it.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

I can’t just post draft content out there – let me get my manager to review this first.&# An example is a blog called ‘Mini-Microsoft’ where some dude just voices his opinion about life inside Microsoft. What’s worrisome is side-effects such as leaking of information and trade secrets.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 15, 2012

In those days, the idea was to provide access to information. Instead of being a helpful way to share relevant content with our readers, we’ve come to view them as a way to increase our SEO. We’ll put the odd blog in our blogroll, if we even have one. The internet was not a commercial place back then.

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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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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

Also, I can appreciate the financial challenges of original content media. From a content perspective, the biggest challenge is living so far from Washington, DC, where much of the open gov & Gov 2.0 One great example is what Gov 2.0 It just felt appropriate to separate the brands and content. chatter is centralized.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 17, 2009

and how this concept is fundamentally changing the way our government operates and the audience wasn’t filled with Chief Technology Officers, Chief Information Officers, Directors, or Secretaries – it was filled with scientists , contractors , members of the media , webmasters ,and start-ups. biappedge ?????? ????-?????

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