Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Monitor our conversations? We see them online on Facebook and Twitter, though we’re not always quite sure what they’re doing there. Are they there to sell products? Reply to customer complaints? Are the same strategies they’re using applicable to small businesses without the same brand recognition?

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Josh S Peters

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

I’ve thought about doing a Get to know a Guru series for a while and interviewing the “A listers&# , but Craig highlighting people in his Twitter community who aren’t exactly the “Elite&# is just plain awesome. It is great to get to know people in the community and you're a smart guy.

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Posted by Irene Koehler in Facebook , Networking , Social Media on February 25, 2010 | 3 responses As the blog’s readership and community have grown, I’m continually impressed with all of you. I’d like to do a better job of bringing you all into the conversation. We’ve become friends.

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Josh S Peters

MAY 11, 2009

This post is being sparked by conversations I’ve had recently with my own father. I think our parents could get a huge benefit from sharing and being part of the grid and forming their own niched communities even. This is not a belittleing or condescending post. Perhaps it'll be of use to you. Nice approach!

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Josh S Peters

AUGUST 21, 2009

I’ll also be setting up a FaceBook fan page for it this weekend for contest and community purposes. We’ll be giving away some signed copies as promotions and doing some other stuff with it too so watch out for that here or on the books website TwittFacedTheBook.com (coming very very soon).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In Membership blogging partially meets our needs for community.

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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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Josh S Peters

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Much Much more and more to come I am incredibly excited to be working with this project, and to help manage the community. Tweet This Post Tags: Community , Disclosure , GoEverywhere Written by Josh Peters « Previous Post Next Post » nlgordaz What's your twitter address? 'll check and say.

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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. Social Media is all about how effectively you build conversation and become part of an ongoing conversation. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Almost Savvy

APRIL 6, 2009

Even more global conversations about weather, kids, spouses, dogs are more preferable to me than “just had a rare hamburger and sweet potato fries&# posts. For me, one of the interesting things about social networking is that all of these kinds of conversations are going on in the same place at the same time.

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Almost Savvy

JUNE 23, 2010

I get this, but I don’t get why I see these same abbreviations in emails or other communications. Say what: I’ve heard people of all ages use text-speak in conversation. Trust me, it’s a special experience to hear LOL or WTF during a conversation.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

It is with the greatest love, respect and true geek-envy that I offer the following signs that you’re at a tech conference: While watching conversation among big-time “personas&# on stage, I find myself trying to calculate the percentage of time spent discussing true content as opposed to time spent discussing each other.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. They also often require large investments to create an initial community.

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Josh S Peters

JULY 22, 2009

Horny Toad not only has some amazingly soft clothes, but they have a social media presence that is helping create and maintain a community of loyal fans around them under both the Horny Toad and Nau activewear brands. If there is a great conversation happening on Twitter, bring the subject up on your FaceBook fan page (and or blog).

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Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Facebook users know that this is where the magic happens – all the news, gossip, updates and conversation. It’s a gentle reminder to never make assumptions when it comes to technological intermediaries for conversation. Why would she have blocked me? Had I done something to offend her? Was I wrong? Thanks for writing this!

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Josh S Peters

JUNE 11, 2010

She facilitate s inspiring community around her blog, which is known as SCG – Super Cool Gang. She is “shipping” blogs and vlogs for Inspiring Ship ments blog. Ivana’s “Live CV” will tell you more about her journey in moving pictures. You can follow her on Twitter @ IvanaSendecka or simply “feed yourself “with Inspiring Shipments RSS feed.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’m virtually engaged – listening to conversations and building relationships online. I began replying to his tweets at both ends of the day and, from there, we struck up quite a wonderful conversation.? Tony Uphoff) Are you “listening&# to conversations on Twitter? No, not that kind of engaged.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

What amazes me is that Andrew, with no idea of where this was headed, took the initiative to build an extremely successful community. It’s important to me to be an actual member of the Quizlet community, not just some executive looking down at a bunch of growth statistics. They’re Quizlet’s biggest asset.

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Josh S Peters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This type of blatant ripping off is just not acceptable in any way, but what I didn’t expect was what followed from the local (and even out of state) community at large. Now of course being the concerned citizen I am I reported them as spam, and also alerted Mozy of the affront via Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! I’ve seen this on Microsoft’s PR depts.

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Josh S Peters

JULY 24, 2009

Brunton has had a Twitter account for over a year and recently have picked up the pace and have been engaging their community more through it. Their Twitter stream is broadcast on their home page and a they have a FaceBook Fan Page that they use to distribute information about products and to communicate with their fans.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Increase conversations about your brand, change the current online sentiment of your brand? The platforms you need to be on will become very clear once you start listening and looking for your niche and conversations surrounding it. After you’ve found these people join their conversations. What do you want to do?

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

You should also know which keywords have the best conversion and which ones are costing you the most per click. Studio525 has been trying this out for a while and is seeing a positive conversion rate in his efforts. These keywords should be translating directly into your Twitter searches.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. Do you mean conversions? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! It also depends on goals. Ad clicks on videos?

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Josh S Peters

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Using social media to enhance what you’re already doing and tap into your existing networks and communities has a lot of underlying power to it. It really is like having a built in fan base right when you start. Do you have a newsletter you’re running?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Private brand communities vs. Facebook. I’m not sure it’s broad vs targeted as the main difference, necessarily, as there are a lot of narrow B2C uses of social media (like invite-only brand communities and such). Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube. link] Jay Baer Thanks for the comment.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The guy was a complete stranger, yet here we were having a delightful and very natural conversation. We talked about our kids, observations about life and social media.

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

ink shorteners are very prevalent in today’s online communities. Josh Peters I agree with your sentiment Ari, and seeing the CTR (Click Through Rate) of using my own link shortener vs that of Bit.ly is what's caused me to keep using my own as the primary vs bit.ly

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. It’s about building relationships, spending time on the networks, and having regular conversations with the people you want to connect with who you will value for more than just helping move the needle and getting to the bottom line. Have you read The New Community Rules ?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. Says Lisa Beatty, “We want to bring women into the conversation, but also into the solution. It’s on JaneNation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It’s awesome people can promote knowing trick in the book about facebook and twitter, but do they know how to read the subtext of a situation and really get in someones world in a conversation. Made me laugh when I compared it back to Roberts comment about focus on communicating rather than tools. Shaw, 1856-1950 Jose G.

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Twitter – Setup your keyword monitoring for Twitter conversations. Watch your conversion rates for that page and see how it compares to others used in you other campaigns and the regular site pages. Empower your community to talk to about you and have them build the social proof of your business’s value.

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 31, 2010

The reason I am very adamant about using these services is because they generate leads, conversation and business. It definitely adds to the conversation! I have several connections on LinkedIn that do not use Twitter and occasionally they will start conversations based upon my tweets. Thanks for the conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, if you know them and can actually have lengthy conversations with the person day after day, that obviously means your relationship has made it to the next level.) 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Almost Savvy

JULY 15, 2010

Talk (And Listen) To Me We’ve all read the advice that the most effective ways to leverage the opportunities to build relationships with new people online is to be engaging and interested in them, by having a conversation that includes both listening and responding. I’m also happy that Karen shared the post with her community.

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