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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting. Seek out communities that address the needs that your company also addresses.

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Andrew Sutherland, 17 Year Old Creator of Quizlet ยป Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The major “Web 2.0″ ″ and social networking technologies that have been created in the last several years have been a major boon for consumers and web users. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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Confessions and Reflections of a [Former] Digg Addict

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Follower Manager Statistics Now that we’ve gotten the filters out of the way (which is overwhelming but gives you solid control over your activities), you can dive into this amazing feature. between 40 and 40000). Age of account. Tweet frequency.