Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Here Comes Google Buzz Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match Shopping Cart Your shopping cart is empty Visit the shop ? Please add your thoughts. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! You might also be interested in these: Coming Soon: An Interview with YOU!

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Social Media Lijit Reputation LinkedIn 145

Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Here Comes Google Buzz Happy Holidays! If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Related articles which may interest you: Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends Helping Kids Stay Safe Online. Is SocialShield the Answer? I Don’t Care Where. Ready for Yet Another Social Platform?

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Social Networking Astroturfing Lijit LinkedIn 191

Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I am most interested to know what you, the AlmostSavvy community, want to know from them. And…to further show my appreciate for you, the AlmostSavvy community, do I have a deal for you! I’ve got a few extra invitations to Google Wave and will randomly select some of the commenters. I want to hear from you!

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Mobile Lijit SMS LinkedIn 113

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

Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Several people have told me that I should “monetize&# it by placing Google ads on it – but others say that that would just ruin my credibility and would reflect badly on my interior design business. Posted by Irene Koehler in Blogging , Social Media on October 13, 2009 | 4 responses I am *so* not a Las Vegas person.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Some of these sites also offer the ability to have commentary, including Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed, SocialMedian, and many others. For me, FriendFeed is the #2 driver of traffic to my Web site, behind only Google. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Almost Savvy

AUGUST 3, 2010

We combine information from several sources; at the moment, these are Google Profiles,Gravatar, Plancast, Rapleaf. Here Comes Google Buzz What is Your Favorite “Real-time&# Tool? Stack Overflow and Twitter, as well as thousands of organisations’ public websites. social networking sites) and private (e.g.

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Tools Privacy LinkedIn Applications 238

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued. What can you learn about me? Perhaps they’re insomniacs.

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Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. For the bonus round, I recommend staying up to date via LinkedIn’s community superhero, Mario Sundar. Update at least every three months.

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Finally, keep in mind that if your question can be answered through a google search, perhaps you might want to search google rather than asking a question here. Your example of generosity of spirit ultimately will serve not only the Twitter community but larger society well. What do you think? Are you game?

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Finally, keep in mind that if your question can be answered through a google search, perhaps you might want to search google rather than asking a question here. Your example of generosity of spirit ultimately will serve not only the Twitter community but larger society well. What do you think? Are you game?

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LinkedIn Lijit Survey Reputation 204

Almost Savvy

JUNE 5, 2009

Great work on your site, including the video spot and the other links to social media sites especially the “Call me&# through Google Voice. I have the widget code for my own Google Voice, but haven’t placed it yet on my site. And, no worries about setting up Google Voice. Your perspective is important to me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

PPC ads are often based on search terms (keywords) you bid on, as in the case of the ones we see on Google everyday. The easiest thing to do is to setup your keywords to be delivered via RSS to the feed reader of your choice (google reader, bloglines, etc).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

That level of communication really teaches your readers.) I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl! I take it everywhere I go!

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Register for.tel for free) Posted by Irene Koehler in Branding , Business , Career , Networking , Tips on February 23, 2010 | 47 responses We all want to be found more easily online when our friends, potential clients and employers Google us. What would be the advantage of posting the information on a.tel site versus a Google Profile?

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Directory Domain Name LinkedIn Reputation 223

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Its awesome to have a lot of friends, and even more so being active in the hottest blog communities. But with messages coming in from other MyBlogLog members & the communities you follow, on top of your many friend requests and updates, we understand that sometimes all those alerts can be a bit much. XOXO, Tilly.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

For example, if you were to google “Paul Scheer&# you’d get many hits on an east coast actor/comedian. At least, it might appear this way if all you knew about her was what you found online. world, we can easily choose how much of ourselves we reveal and to whom. In the virtual world, things are much more complicated.

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Reputation Lijit LinkedIn Virtual World 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. But, like good Social Media community members, I’m thrilled to be able to help my parents out and give back as well! &# question a hundred times. Thankfully, now I am.)

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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant 221

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I have been using Netvibes for more than a year now and similarly to the use case in the presentation I have tailored my start page to fulfill my needs in certain contexts (trips, translation tools, tech news, community and collaboration). Lijit Search. Tony Karrer. widgetOlab. eLearning 2.0 eLearning 2.0 Powered by BlinkList.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! My friends, do you respect media snackers?

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Almost all my knowledge about social media has come through Jim and today (but probably not as you read this) if you type ‘Women’s personal development’ into Google I am number one. However we connect on Twitter and on other social networking sites, it’s all about engagement. I’m engaged.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

tools to develop professional learning communities for international school teachers, at an introductory level. The best way to do that is using an RSS reader like Google Reader or Netvibes. feature in Google Reader, which brings all of your address book contactsâ?? apps such as Google Reader and iTunes U. Lijit Search.

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Education Web 2.0 RSS Wiki 154

Almost Savvy

MARCH 25, 2010

Here Comes Google Buzz Shopping Cart Your shopping cart is empty Visit the shop ? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! 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? Ready for Yet Another Social Platform?

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Hotels Conference Transportation Eventful 160

Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Empower your community to talk to about you and have them build the social proof of your business’s value. Facebook can be used to help gather video testimonials and customer photos by allowing your fans to upload their own content and link to reviews of your products. Let’s use Twitter as the example in this one.

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Campaign Social Media Brands Marketing 113

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business.

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Metrics Strategy How To Tourism 130

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Spam engineer guy Matt Cutts has his own blog where he talks about his personal life and all things Google. These choices may be better for Digg in the long run.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. Spread the net.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur. Give to your community. Join the Community. Who said that blogging was dead? Customer Service. Offer value.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff. We've been talking about what “our community&# looks to our blog for, and a quick peek at the blog analytics showed me that over 60% of visitors are first timers and not long time readers. Consequently, I have two recommendations. First, never blow off a post.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant RSS 119

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), but a right-hand location on content sites. I completely missed it in the first two headers, but noticed it readily in the third. I also prefer the overall design to #2/3. A little help for the rest of us.

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