Kikolani

MARCH 29, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. 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. For me, FriendFeed is the #2 driver of traffic to my Web site, behind only Google.

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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. I have found that if you tap into all of its features, its the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network. Posted by Tilly McLain on June 23, 2008 at 11:19 AM in New Features | Permalink. |. Posted by Tilly on June 11, 2008 at 02:04 AM in New Features | Permalink. |. rocking out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 7, 2010

They have REALLY engaged social networks. It seems no matter what they post, their readers and followers respond and engage with them as a result. There is a misconception on social networking sites that you are either a conversationalist or a marketer. Digital schomoozers. You know the type. They are there.

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Industry Hosting Social Networking News 248

Kikolani

MARCH 22, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Mashup Resources Klout FeedBlitz 128

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? But yet, despite perhaps not having substantial manpower or resources available, Epic Change has made waves of epic proportions in the social media charity world — at least from my perspective. Why social media?

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As of now, it will integrate will services including Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, and Google Reader. Take a look at the high-level overview from Google and let me know your thoughts. 13 Signs That You’re At a Tech Conference Social Media Stats – It’s Raining Content! Facebook is absent from the list.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks.

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Activities Social Media Policies Social Networking 216

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Consider the impact that Facebook Open Graph protocol integration will have on your existing on-site community features and social functionality. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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News Module Widget Facebook 149

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

What functionalities do you think WordPress, vBulletin, and other common platforms need to be able to better develop communities? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular? Again, super post!

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. Here are a few tips and tricks to get started developing your own personal learning network: Join a Social Network. There are quite a few networks on Ning that center around teaching and learning.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Twitter has major problems with uptimes, Plurk is missing some major features, and Brightkite is having issues with Verizon. But they all shy away from implementing features that worked, from other services. Threaded Comments – one of the largest feature missing out on Twitter was the ability to actually respond to someone.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

“Social media&# or “social networking&# – which term is correct? Whats more, I just added new fruitful blog names in my Google Reader. Super Sunday: are you ready for some… advertising! by Davina Brewer. from Mizz Information. Where to use keywords in corporate blog posts , by Lee Odden.

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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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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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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

The truth is that there are no shortcuts to community building , it requires sustained time, effort and dedication: at least to create a community that is truly activated and interested. He’s the president of Human Business Works , an online education community for small businesses. Chris Brogan.

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Tools Tips Marketing Social Media 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show). 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Talent Management, and Employee Engagement (a PDF file) that finds: 52% of organizations that adopt blogs, wikis, and social networking tools (among others) achieved best-in-class performance levels compared to 5% for those that didnâ??t. software that links to networking site (e.g. ability to connect with potential recruits.

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Project Web 2.0 Module Wiki 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are also the most likely to pass the word along to their circle of friends, family, and acquaintances (a prerequisite to “going viral” within social channels). However, if your website and email messages don’t call attention to these features you’ve lost out on the opportunity to reach these folks and make these things happen.

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Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. I’m going to stop there, though.

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Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

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 guess Im so used to my Google Reader, that I automatically go there, and it will take some time to train myself to do otherwise. But I should try it. Read All About It!

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Plaxo Products Tools Class 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. Thank you very much for the feature!

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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Journal 241

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media experts realise that you can’t control what people say about you online, but you can continue to focus on putting out your best work possible, whatever your medium can be. Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. I take it everywhere I go!

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Social Media Influencer MySpace Consultant 229

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

« NBA Launches Social Network | Main. I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. Now, when I find something I want to save I use this feature and send it to a secret contact in my address book. Gmail does not have a to-do list feature - yet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Kikolani

APRIL 15, 2013

Do you have a burning question you want to ask the support team at a popular social network, but you gave up because you couldn’t find the actual contact form through the endless maze of self-serve support documentation? Request for Community-Created Page Review. Report an Issue With Location Features. Trademarks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Comcast did it early, and Frank Eliason today (who, by the way, is featured in the book I wrote) is really the role model for excellent customer service using online technologies. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The point is that consumers now have a more potent aggregate power: someone with a problem can now reach others with the same problem faster, build a community around this shared problem easily, and mobilize lots of people behind the common cause more efficiently. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

You can see how many people are subscribing to your RSS feed and from which sources, and if you use the new Google Analytics integration, you can see how many clicks each individual post is getting from feed readers. Again, this is very basic so if you’re looking for something with a lot of features, this won’t be for you.

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Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. It also reminds you that Facebook is one of their social destinations on the web, but that you might be interested in their YouTube page. Give them a reason to want to communicate. I know I would.)

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Spend at least one hour each day reading about social media - I’m not sure when it happened, but reading, whether it’s blogs, books, newspapers, etc., In 2009, I’m going to move reading back up my priority list and start dedicating time each day to my Google Reader, my stack of unread books, magazines, and Twitter stream.

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Gov 2.0 Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 77

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is Episode 30 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Eric Schwartzman , online social media training provider, entrepreneur and the best-selling co-author of Social Marketing to the Business Customer. Jay : Yeah, be careful. Upload it to Udemy.

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