Almost Savvy

AUGUST 17, 2010

However, their Twitter account had only been linked to their Facebook fan page, meaning that all of their posts on Facebook were automatically broadcast to Twitter. In fact, the net result is that the business comes off looking disconnected and less interested in their community than they are in hawking their wares.

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Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve heard that all businesses should have a Facebook page. Are you actively working to build new relationships with key influencers in your field of interest? Who Influences You? Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! Tell me the one thing that I need to do.”

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Excellent questions poured in via email, Twitter, the AlmostSavvy Facebook page , and comments on my blog. Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust , a must-read for those interested in building valued business relationships through social media. You certainly didn’t disappoint!

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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. “I want to have 100,000 Facebook Fans in 2 weeks, and I am a start-up business that no one knows… &# It is hard to explain to people how it all works when they have this type of expectation.

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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. Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

In fact, I don’t think becoming a social media expert is something that people should be worried about; they should be focused on becoming expert communicators instead. Influencers accept that they have a position to hold and won’t abuse it for a quick buck. Highlight Others Do you ever read the tweets of Chris Brogan?

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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. Even better it can be measured.

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Almost Savvy

APRIL 6, 2009

Who Influences You? Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! Related articles which may interest you: BREAKING NEWS: It Takes Work To Get Ahead New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends LinkedIn-apalooza! Ready to rev-up your profile?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up. I’ll be back in a couple weeks. Thomas for five days.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Love, friendship, camaraderie, influence, credibility, trust, authenticity all add up to relationships. If we choose them well, our network of influencers expands our knowledge and our reach exponentially further and deeper simultaneously. Learn to explain your expertise easily to people who have influence. When Fewer Is More.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. This isn’t by coincidence.&#

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

While there were other sites listed as having information about Melanie, I selected Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) as my last stop in the ?Discover On her Facebook page, I found all sorts of photos ? My advice to Melanie was to reconsider how she feels having the content of her Facebook page visible to business associates.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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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. So you tweet and facebook for a living! Really, many people trying to describe Online Community Managers, end up sounding like this: Others may know what Community Manager is, but don’t know exactly how much it entails. for a living.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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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. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 25, 2010

Related articles which may interest you: Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter Who Influences You? Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed !

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

All of us have influences. Tell me in the comments who influenced you and why, and you could win a copy of the uber-classic book “ How to Win Friends and Influence People. Tell me in the comments who influenced you and why, and you could win a copy of the uber-classic book “ How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. mentality there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. It’s so new that the community is being created right now as we speak. You got us excited about the community…gotta go play now. See the surge? Ride the wave!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Have you tried out Flowtown?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] unmarketing Thanks a lot Jay.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 22, 2008

With the advent of LinkedIn , Facebook , Twitter and an endless list of other networks, our connections are global. Who Influences You? Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! Long gone are the days when we personally knew all of our neighbors, let alone our business contacts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. That’s not the point.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 1, 2009

Who Influences You? Reply Dan Foley says: March 27, 2009 at 10:33 pm I like your idea of dropping the address and using the real estate for my twitter, facebook and linkedin links. Additional comments powered by BackType Click ‘Like’ to join us on Facebook! Ready to rev-up your profile?

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Josh S Peters

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Building your reputation and community while strengthening your brand over time. You don't know if someone saw your facebook fan page and then bookmarked your website to come back to later. Reach, impact, influence, etc don't really do a fair job. Awareness is awareness no matter how you get it.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Linkedin is for people you know. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Google is undoubtedly huge and they could simply shrug their members off like Digg does to its much smaller userbase, but instead they engage the community and that’s why Google is such a positive brand. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Future Plans for Facebook For now, Facebook doesn’t allow outside access to Facebook fan page metrics, so that’s the one large hole in the Swix data set. Mr. Lake believe that access will be granted however, allowing his company to deliver a whole suite of new Facebook data points into the Swix system.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook. That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social. Here’s your chance to get to know it and learn about 3 ways it can influence your social media! You’re thinking that I’m crazy. Relationships.

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