Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

Social Media 149

Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 149

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

And they mean it, too, saying "At TCBN we respect your privacy. Lesson # 5 Use Social Networks. He recently told me that every week they have a mini-presentation on one aspect of social media (past topics included ethics, social networks, and social bookmarking). social networking. social media.

Class 274

Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. social networking. social media.

Crowdsourcing 245

Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. aka the Semantic Web, is "the combination of mass collaboration and structured databases" (my definition) then I may have just seen the early signs of Web 3.0 social networking.

LinkedIn 109

LinkedIn Google Directory API 109

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

In case it isn’t obvious, Facebook wall posts are completely public to all your friends (unless you tweak your privacy settings). Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Excess converts to spam.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Is a fan page under the same privacy settings as the creator’s main Profile Page? For me a perfect page is one that really inspires participation, collaboration and ultimately leads to sales and building and reinforcing good customer relationships. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Applications URL 279

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Tom contacted me a few weeks ago with this idea and we’ve been working collaboratively on this project ever since. It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? You expand it.”

Twitter 196

Twitter B2B Crowdsourcing Hubspot 196