SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Worker Smarter - Rather than spending your time surfing sites or reading tweets, have the content your really care about delivered to you using RSS feeds or through targeted Twitter lists. I’d love to see a link in the comments. Have you written a blog post on managing time effectively? –Sean.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Overwhelmed by following too many people on social networks or subscribing to too many blogs. Twitter Lists. Twitter now allows you to add Twitter members to Twitter Lists , which helps you easily organize people you are interested in following by topic. Facebook Friends List. Other Twitter Cleanup Methods.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Fortunately, with a little strategic planning and implementation of some very helpful tools, you can accomplish your social networking/social media marketing tasks for the day in a very short amount of time. Blogs lend so many benefits to a social media marketing program that they really can’t be overlooked.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Thanks to an idea from Michele McGraw on ways to prep your blog before an event, I decided to do two lists for newer readers as well as people I meet at Blog World Expo later this week. This first list is a compilation of the top posts on Kikolani, as determined by PostRank ’s engagement analysis. Commenting.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0 1-Join a professional social network. technology) and EduBlogger World (for education bloggers) and I launched a social network called iTeach/iLearn (enhancing instruction with tech across the content areas). Caution: Limit your reader to five to start.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

by Adam Sherk on October 29, 2009 This week Google unveiled Google Social Search , an opt-in feature that provides additional search results with content from a user’s “social circle” of friends and trusted sources. The same goes for the sites and blogs you follow via Google Reader.

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Socialized

MAY 14, 2010

If you want regular updates, set up Google Reader or create a Google Alert on the words “Facebook&# and “privacy.&#. I have also created a Twitter list of Internet law and privacy experts. The principle regulator of social networking is, in the U.S., Know Your Rights as a Consumer. In the U.S.,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

Using one or two of these methods may work in getting your news, but I’d say that a healthy combination of blogs and these social networks ends up giving me what I want. Reply sebbastian July 2, 2008 at 12:36 am Social networking is acting like a mirror now , people now feel no need to read newspapers daily or watch T.V.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? Alicia Keys knows how to do it. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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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. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 8, 2011

Blogging, Tweeting, Tumbling, Facebooking, Formspringing, checking your Klout score, commenting on Flickr, reading your Reader, keeping up-to-date with online communities and discussion boards …. First, I cleared out my Google Reader. Guest post by Steff Metal. … and that’s just on Monday.

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Kikolani

JULY 19, 2013

How to Follow Your Favorite Blogs without an RSS Reader – As Google Reader shuts down, writer Sharon Hurley Hall asks whether marketers need an RSS reader any more. 16 Must-Listen Business Podcasts – Social Media Explorer authors weigh in about their favorite podcasts that they regularly listen to.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Some news sites are supplementing content links with direct questions and comments to users, but this does not appear to be happening in any significant volume. To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. NPR 489,413 513.5

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2010

I follow a number of different news sites (and other companies) on Twitter, Facebook and other social media, and each of those accounts is linked on my Google Profile. I’m also subscribed to 368 feeds in Google Reader including a wide range of blogs and news sites. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 22, 2011

Here’s a list of what I use that makes me productive, from time savers to the must have tools that rock my world. Rapportive is a social CRM, giving you important information about the person who is emailing you. Google Reader. Google Docs. The comments are all yours. [ Rapportive FTW. Or something.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 10, 2013

I love that it syncs between multiple sources (it has a complete list on its site), which helps avoid dupes. Newsle syncs with your social networks, and then sends you an email when any of your contacts are “in the news.” But you can keep track of who you meet, what’s going on with them, etc.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. Does this work?

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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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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

7 best methods of list building. Best paying Google Adsense words. 5 powerful ways to use Google Reader feed creation tool for SEO. Social Media. 23 reasons you should not fear social media. Tips for web designers from an Internet marketer’s perspective. A quick look at mobile web design.

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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. One of the ways that Twitter has been used (other than listed above) has been by conferences like South by Southwest (SXSW) and Gnomedex. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Plaxo: contacts, calendar and e-cards As a social network, I think Plaxo is pretty dismal, no matter how much it tries to Face-Twit-book-terify itself. I realize this is a bit of a Google-heavy list, but many of the folks I know depend on the suite for their work (and more). Sign out Leave your comment here.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

94 89 17 huffingtonpost.com 94 87 npr.org 94 87 19 cbsnews.com 93 89 csmonitor.com 93 89 21 chicagotribune.com 92 89 22 newsweek.com 91 89 In the table home page authority is used to break any ties; if both scores are equal the sites are listed in alphabetical order. Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? {

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 12, 2013

Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk How to Identify Your Own Top Trends by Adam Sherk on December 22, 2009 Yesterday Facebook shared its Top Status Trends of 2009 , providing insight into what terms most commonly occurred in users’ status updates. main profiles, personas, individual staff members, etc).

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

While a number of smaller markets and weaker teams are at the bottom of the list, I didn’t expect to see the Miami Heat down there. The Lakers and Magic get to enjoy the fruits of being anointed to Twitter’s ‘Suggested User List,’ and thus the skewed standings. Great work, Adam.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 12, 2010

Related posts: Newsweek’s Tim Geithner Interview Live on Facebook: Don’t Forget to Link to the Video Afterwards Borrowing Content Was Happening Long Before Blogging Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Comments (2). |. One of the big questions Im frequently asked about using social media is whether or not the tools "work." " Depending on the questioner, this can mean a variety of things, but underlying everything is one issue--will my department or organization improve if we use social media? Comments (5). |.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector. Your own personal online social directory of where all your friends are! We give you a list of all the people you consider a contact, and all the social web sites they are using. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

PostRank has a comparison tool that uses its Domain Activity API to measure total engagement based on user participation across multiple social platforms. PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Social media users are doing their part too. Related posts: 5 Ways to Deal with Seasonal Dips in Search Engine Traffic Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? But on the first page I saw a link to a “Where to Donate&# page, which I’ve added to the list above. The recent earthquake was a tragedy.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

7 keyword suggest tools beyond Google – tools to help you come up with varied anchor text. The redeeming qualities of links with a bad reputation – the good side to link building via blog comments, directories, and non-keyword anchor text. Social Media / Social Networking. On My List.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 17, 2009

So the question is, how do you get on the list? I also hear that Twitter is bombarded with requests to get on the list, so they don’t like people asking anymore. 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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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To what degree that happens depends on how well Google does at improving the interface and functionality. Related posts: Google Social Search: Are You in Your Target Audiences’ Social Circles? Does Google Want Brands in Your Social Circle? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

7 comments… read them below or add one } Marty November 19, 2009 at 6:48 am Great post. One question: Your grid lists the Patriots as having the most Twitter followers with 30k but the text claims the Chargers as No. Really interesting stuff, I wonder how these match up with franchise valuation? 1 with 28k so…which is it?

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Adam Sherk

MAY 13, 2009

Through Rich Snippets you can draw greater attention to your listings in the search results, which helps to increase clickthroughs to your content. You can follow Google’s guidelines for marking up structured data to learn how to do it, including the specific properties for reviews.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

As of today the article is #1 (after some embedded news results) for the query “michael vick eagles”: Related posts: Do Google’s Expanded Domain Results Apply to News and Video Listings? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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