Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Five Productivity Tools for PR Pros August 25th, 2010 Tweet A few months ago, I wrote a piece on communicating effectively with a virtual workforce for IABC’s monthly e-zine, CW Bulletin.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

I took the opportunity to contact some of my esteemed friends and colleagues who are experts in their field and asked for their advice on their favorite little known social media secret and social media tools, including their own if they had them. Currently I’m doing this on Google+. I see a bright future for the Google.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts. Scribd allows people to read a piece of writing, share it with others, and provide comments on it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

The New Community Rules talks about the important role social media has begun playing in our lives. Fortunately, we have social media communities to inspire us. Access to these social media communities is free. How does one actually make their great content something people want to talk about and share with their friends?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

Text Comments: 12. Sign in to post a Comment. Text Comments (12). Show: all comments. Change this to see only comments above a certain value. Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb. great tool! Diigo: By far the best social bookmarking tool out there! Great tool, I love it.

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Kikolani

MARCH 18, 2013

This week, I had the privilege of taking a new Twitter tool for a spin. While the tool was developed with brands and businesses in mind, there are lots of benefits for bloggers as well. While the tool was developed with brands and businesses in mind, there are lots of benefits for bloggers as well. Benefits for Bloggers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

The more you read, the better and more prepared you will be to communicate through various social media channels. Use tools such as alltop.com and google.com/alerts to find the right blogs and new articles, and then subscribe to them through RSS using Google Reader. Before you get active on social networks, start a blog.

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Jason Yormark

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

My fav app to find everything on the go, and read reviews from the community. I don’t really blog with the app, but monitoring comments is very useful on the fly. Synchs with Google Reader seamlessly, and I can easily stay up to date on my fav blogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Your tweets, posts and comments should all be coordinated to meet the ultimate goal, which is to establish trust, build your brand, and increase sales. In order to tap the potential of this fabulous marketing tool, you’ll want to first determine if social media can meet your goals and objectives.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Many educators in successful schools are involved in their schools professional learning community and perhaps they even collaborate with other schools in the district, city, state, country or beyond, but Innovative Educators also have personal learning networks (PLNs) enabling them to connect with other learners around the globe.

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Kikolani

MARCH 29, 2013

Google Reader’s Demise is Irrelevant for Blogs – The demise of Google Reader will have no impact on blogs and blogging. How Quick Sprout Gets 176 Comments Per Blog Post – As of right now Quick Sprout has 62,232 comments, which took place over 353 blog posts. Here’s how I did it.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 10, 2011

The next time you are online and find a blog that you want to subscribe to, like mine ( shameless plug is at the bottom of my article ), click on the RSS icon and you will be asked to add it to your Google homepage or to Google reader. Choose ‘Google homepage’ and the feed will be added to your iGoogle homepage.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - Ive tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. Share your own thoughts in the comments. The Core Philosophy: Google Reader is a database and a feed reader.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

Lauren: Our team started the NBCLocal account a little over a year ago because we wanted to be part of the Digg community in the most transparent way possible, and we wanted to connect the national and international Digg community with interesting local stories. What are your aims for that profile?

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Benefits of Blogging This five part series covers the benefits of blogging, including having a worldwide audience, building a community, strengthening your interests, learning Internet marketing skills, and becoming an authority in your niche. Commenting. Blogging Tips. Getting Overwhelmed? Get Organized!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It isn’t uncommon to see people sharing articles on FriendFeed, including all the images from the post, and then copying the entirety of the text into the comments section. I have earlier written about comment fragmentation and why it matters from an article author’s perspective.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Techipedia readers can use code Tamar for a 15% limited time discount when registering. Because of the nature of the marketing tool, each industry differs to the point that people just aren’t sure. 3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We first gave you a place to show off what you are up to with New With Me, and gave you the tools to find out what places you hang out at. We are taking that last step further and showing you the neighborhoods where your friends hang out, and giving you the tools so you can hook up and hang out there together! Comments (3). |.

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JUNE 27, 2008

tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. Tools in Your Professional Practice. tools in my professional practice. technologies to help me communicate, collaborate and connect with like-minded educators amazes and inspires me. The power of web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They hear about tools, put forth a miserable effort, and are either too busy or just lazy. Just do it while giving back to the community as well. They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. I blog and comment too, however; 1. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Want to self promote? Engage in dialogue.

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As of now, it will integrate will services including Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Reader. Related articles which may interest you: Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter What is Your Favorite “Real-time&# Tool? It will be rolling out over the next week.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

tools give all of us an opportunity to participate in and manage our own learning. isnt about the fact that learning professionals can now publish learning content without going to a webmaster or needing highly sophisticated tools. Comments (2). |. t use these tools grew engagement by a mere 1%. (An TrackBack (0).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. If you keep at it, that number will double and triple, but you must keep at it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# More importantly, Epic Change has a mission to empower individuals to tell stories in order to acquire financial resources to make positive change in their communities. Why social media?

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ProBlogger

MAY 11, 2012

Over time experience will teach you how to do this , but you also need the right tools. You need tools that will help you spot the hot topics at that very moment, generate list upon list of high-converting long-tail keywords, automate some of your processes, and even show you the best places to publish your content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Many people stay to themselves, failing to participate in the community and to build rapport with others in the same field. Lickshunmewah October 9, 2010 at 9:21 pm { 14 comments… read them below or add one } Laura October 7, 2010 at 9:56 am I have noticed that a LOT of people have unrealistic expectations for their business.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Another way you can integrate is using your social profile URLs as your website when leaving comments. If you haven’t already, get measurement tools to measure all your social activities. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. You can also get Google Analytics installed on your Facebook Fan page.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

The site does not resolve on smart-phone browsers, and if they sell products online, their e-commerce platform has no social functionality (no review functionality, no commenting functionality, etc). Reply Hugo from Zeta May 12, 2010 at 2:43 pm Thanks for the comment, Lauren! The design and UI looks like it’s circa 1997. Subscribed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Twitter as a tool to communicate during conferences. After attending SMX (I’ll post something on that soon) and SES NY, I realized that Twitter is a useful tool for conferencegoers to communicate their whereabouts or to share breaking news and announcements. Twitter as a marketing tool. What are my top picks?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

2 comments… read them below or add one } Peter Robert Casey January 16, 2010 at 2:14 am I like how you summed up the misperception of social media being a popularity contest: “While building up followers is great, it’s what you do with that following that really matters.&# Great work, Adam.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

in the comments below, today I corresponded with Greg Galant , CEO of Sawhorse Media, the company behind Muck Rack. As Twitter is so popular with the journalism community it seems a natural choice. Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

These new “Internet Marketers&# take Twitter by storm, using automated Twitter tools in abundance that give them the true appearance of expertise. It’s a great tool, but it’s not one you’d exclusively want to dedicate your Twitter efforts to. There were fans on the Facebook page, but what is keeping them there?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

While a traditional search engine would show you news stories about the quake, a real time search showed you people’s comments and experiences – in real time. There are a variety of tools which help you to navigate Twitter and the real time web. Lastly, another free tool to check out is TrendsMap.

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Kikolani

APRIL 15, 2013

Request for Community-Created Page Review. You can also discuss issues with other users in the Facebook Community Forum. You can also post issues in the Twitter Customer Community powered by Get Satisfaction. How to Contact Google+ Support. Please share your social media support experiences in the comments!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Beyond learning about your users, FriendFeed allows users to comment on content within the site itself. Here’s a secret, it’s a great tool for tracking your favorite users too. Comments there @ FriendFeed is what’s *most* intriguing to me. link] Persistent Searches: Save searches so you can revisit them.

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