Saying It Social

APRIL 11, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Social Networking For a Cause: The Power of Online Communities I’d like to use this blog post to step out of our social-networking-for-business mentality and talk a little bit about using social networking for special causes.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Idaconcpts

MAY 4, 2011

Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. According to Digg’s top brass, these changes were meant to bring in more revenue to the site, giving corporations and companies more control over content and more exposure for their own content. The Problem with Digg.

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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. When should I use Digg ? The best part? The only substantial cost for you is time.

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

You could post on community review sites or live-stream it to the masses. Community blogging sites. For brands, social media networking sites offer an opportunity to build awareness, create a community of customers and followers and drive traffic to websites. Form communities and discuss relevant news within them.

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Laurel Papworth

APRIL 26, 2011

How do you respond to a negative comment in an online community, on Facebook? Unless they go off and create an anti-community such as Dell Hell, alert the Press and continue to pursue their point of view. Law as bullying tactic rarely works, it just incenses the community. Shut the Page down, ban the commenter, suck up to them?

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2007

47 am News from Other Blogs Jump to Comments Vogue’s India Launch Click to Read. Read here Bathroom Blogfest 2007 Read here The comment contest winner Read here Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit Leave a Comment Filed under News Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 28, 2010

Which is why I prefer to have my communications group work with them much like they have always worked with the media. An Advocate is an individual we know perhaps via social media that tweets about Avaya or retweets about news coming from Avaya. I draw a hard line between Influencers and Advocates. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Twist Image

JULY 14, 2012

"When the news broke this week that DIgg would be sold for about $500,000 , it kind of depressed me. For years, I saw Digg as one of the most modern ways for Infovores to consume, comment and share the news. Is this real news? (Because of cooking safety, cleanliness, unhealthy, etc) - Reddit. Probably not.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. Listen Now. Why did it fail?

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 8, 2012

Consumers Trust Their Family, Friends, And Online Reviews When Making Purchasing Decisions More Than Television, News, Or Product Web Sites So what? In their article Friending The Social Consumer , Nielsen reports that: More than 40% of consumers go online to check reviews and consumer feedback before purchasing consumer electronics.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Strangers become friends.

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Mindjumpers

JULY 15, 2010

3 things the campaign is doing right: • Giving something back to the community – the videos encourage people to engage with the Old Spice guy and manages to give something back you can look at, thus giving the user a sense of ownership and seeing concrete results. It’s a simple idea, but is creating a lot of buzz and PR.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Through social media, you can find out what online communities your existing customers belong to.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 2, 2008

Introducing LinkedIn News & the redesigned home page. Announcing LinkedIn News. Detroit News film criti. Community Guidelines. QuickList ( 0 ). Site: Home. What is LinkedIn? Rate: 1 ratings Sign in to rate. Views: 288. watch in standard quality. watch in high quality. more share options ). fewer share options ).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

Facebook should be your social media hub of everything you have from company news, announcing events, offer tutorials, highlight videos, conduct polls and create community around discussions. But now with this new email feature you can upload your email lists and invite them to truly engage with you on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. And for that reason, you should join–now. See the surge?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

First, a study of 33 million unique users from Chitika’s network in September showed that visitors coming from Facebook and Digg were more loyal than those coming from the three major search engines and Twitter. For many news sites (especially poorly optimized ones) search engine referrals are still considerably below 20% of total traffic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

How do you get your news? In the past I have variously read newspapers, watched TV news bulletins, read news.bbc.co.uk and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. Now it seems I get most of my news from Twitter. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

On the other hand, if you seek alternatives to traditional market research, then you need a vendor that specializes in sentiment capture and community analysis. All listening platforms collect data from numerous online sources — news sites, blogs, and other Web sites. Which media sources are relevant to your goals? Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Oblivion If you are an expert on a subject matter, you should know the latest news, findings, and opinions about it. People often advance themselves as a technical expert on a brand, but seem unaware when that brand is in the news for having a defect or a major product announcement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

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. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

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. The SXSW Twitter feed helped many communicate with each other and even allowed for individuals to meet for the first time.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. An article submission site in the Digg vein. Devalued a bit in Google’s new Panda update. Also in the Digg and Reddit category. You get a link in your profile , and you can submit news stories and articles.

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Actually it’s less ranting and more just quoting news stories and adding a few extra words that are supposed to make us angry, depressed, etc. It’s just a bunch of randomly compiled links to other news stories about celebrities, politics, vegetarianism, welding, and just about anything else you can think of. Zero Hedge.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

Twitter became (and still is) the headline news of the modern age. The rise of Twitter was accompanied by the slow demise of RSS and Digg, as the surging popularity of the 140-character kid made many previous pointing and info-gathering technologies unnecessary. It’s a collection of observations and links to other observations.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 21, 2012

The good news is, if you can add and subtract, you can succeed in social. They should also be passionate about social media, as well, since the role of a social media community manager can be a tough one. S = Strategy – Note: S DOES NOT EQUAL Sales (more on that later). –Sean Share this on Facebook Tweet This!

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

A common mistake in social media is that companies will dive right in, setting up a Twitter account or Facebook page and blasting out tweets and status updates about their latest company news and new product announcements—and then wonder why their Twitter following isn’t growing and there’s no interaction on their Facebook page.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612. MH Group Communications says that “Porsche had the highest community rating in the Community Index with a score of 5,448, followed by BMW at 3,681 and Audi at 3,612. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Add new comment. Microsoft news RSS feed. Friday, June 27, 2008. Research Centers. Anti-Virus / Spyware / Spam. Compliance & Regulation. Firewalls / VPN / Intrusion. Cisco Security Watch. Microsoft Security Watch. LANs & WANs. Broadband Services. Ethernet Switches. Metro Ethernet. WAN Optimization. VoIP & Convergence.

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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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Proactive Report

MARCH 19, 2010

According to an analysis of social sites by online advertising network Chikita published by Mashable, people go to Twitter for news, MySpace for games and entertainment, Facebook for news and community and digg has a mixed bag. Digg came in second place with slightly over 16%.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product. Social Bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo, Bmaccess; the distinction from social news sites is s bit blurry). Social Events (e.g.,

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Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Little Web Giants

JUNE 30, 2014

The last few years have seen many in the SEO community proclaiming that social bookmarking sites are dead. Digg Terms of Use. Your goal is to become a valuable member of the community and not just someone spamming their own content. Digg add-on for Firefox. Digg browser extension for Chrome. Hacker News.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

great for use on news sites like nobosh. Diigo ~ more than a research tool - a knowledge sharing community. Community Guidelines. Site: Home. Diigo V3: Highlight & Share the Web! Social Bookmarking 2.0. Rate: 47 ratings Sign in to rate. Views: 31,977. watch in standard quality. watch in high quality. more share options ).

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