SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

.” 12) Before hiring a social media consultant, familiarize yourself with these 10 questions. 13) Before you engage in social media, be sure you have a product or service that people like. If they hate your company, your product or your service, that will be amplified online. A set of tactics that can be measured.

Social Media 279

Social Media Klout YouTube Foursquare 279

Idaconcpts

JANUARY 10, 2011

A place holder’s main purpose is to get indexed in Google, and to see how high you can get it to rank with the least amount of work possible. It must be an exact match because Google holds a lot of weight in the domain name in terms of their ranking system – and it must be a term that isn’t too competitive. Tweet This!

Domain Name 131

Domain Name How To Social Bookmarking Directory 131

Bill Hartzer

MARCH 5, 2010

We all check our email on a regular basis but we may forget to browse the websites of companies that we’ve done business with before. There tends to be what I call a “newness factor&# in that some search engines, especially Google, will give some additional “brownie points&# to you when your content is updated.

Engineering 144

Engineering Social Bookmarking Syndication Newsletter 144

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more.

Press Release 200

Press Release Tips HootSuite Alltop 200

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Social and Alternative Search Engines. Wildfire Social Media Monitor. Create animations? JustUnfollow.

Tools 206

Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos 206

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

This saves time, effort and money in the long run, but it’s a step too many companies skip over. Strategy: it isn’t just the tools you’ll be using, but also establishing goals for what you’d like to achieve in social media, and allocating time and resources to do the job. Social Events (e.g.,

Review 152

Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 16, 2010

You want to reach out to people who have not heard of you or your company before. Company Announcements – When you make official company announcements, you first need to coordinate them with your PR (public relations) agency. After all, that’s logical.

Press Release 143

Press Release Engineering News Social Bookmarking 143

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

After all, spending time, money, and other precious resources on social media marketing before you have an understanding of what it can do for you is kind of like putting the cart before the horse (not advisable). It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. It introduces your brand Is your company new?

Social Media 269

Social Media Strategy StumbleUpon Digg 269

Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 4, 2009

Alexa is a subsidiary company of Amazon.com typically known for its rankings of websites. Longer if the article has gone popular or hot on a social bookmarking site like Digg. The news site should also be in Google News and in Yahoo News, which also helps. These don’t stay around for a while, a few hours at best.

URL 112

URL Types Social Bookmarking Digg 112

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. Google Docs If you want to share and collaborate in the creation of documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, then Google Docs is the best way to go. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

Crowdsourcing 192

Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We support embeds from Youtube, Google Videos, BlipTV, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Viddler, Yahoo Videos and several other approved sites only. link] Slide 30: the long tail of people Slide 31: Day of the Long Tail Peter Hirshberg, Chairman, Technorati [link] Slide 32: The three forces of the long tail â?£ Embed Video? Are you human?

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Folksonomy Web 2.0 Wiki Collaboration 270

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. This may be nothing more than a refresher course in the Captain Obvious department but even the savviest of companies is still missing the boat. A lot of big companies I try to engage with don’t want to talk back.

Social Media 272

Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

While not all social functionality will make noticeable impact on your SEO efforts, certain ones like blogging can literally become the centerpiece of a successful SEO strategy. After all, what’s the point of ranking well in Google if the user that finds you in the search results can’t fully engage with your site from his/her smart phone?

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 20, 2008

Google Favored Over Other Search Engines By Webmasters (Nov. 16, 2007) — Website policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a preference for Google over other search engines, say researchers. > Google Bookmarks. Technorati.

Energy 124

Energy Biotechnology Newsvine RSS 124

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The Jordan Rules): This is a great chart and article on the best social media channels for both B2B and B2C companies. Twitter Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google (97th Floor): Yes, Twitter is that important. Here are 10 reasons why you as a company entity should avoid it. Share This or Else!

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

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. Companies that didnâ??t Technorati Tags : workliteracy. Technorati Tags : workliteracy.

Project 265

Project Web 2.0 Module Wiki 265

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered! 9) Most companies have “hearing systems&# not “listening systems.&# Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Communities 117

Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

“What are good companies to target? Overall, the questions were basic and I worried that the individual was looking to target companies for clients before actually understanding the nuances of the culture of Internet marketing as a whole. Training Social : Samir Balwani has worked tirelessly to provide one of the most (the most?)

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have been using StumbleUpon as my social bookmarking tool this year and I wanted to share with you all of my favorite links from the past year broken into categories. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008 I do a lot of surfing.

StumbleUpon 55

StumbleUpon Flickr iPhone Social Bookmarking 55

Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have been using StumbleUpon as my social bookmarking tool this year and I wanted to share with you all of my favorite links from the past year broken into categories. Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Top 1000 Favorite Blogging Links of 2008 I do a lot of surfing.

StumbleUpon 49

StumbleUpon Flickr iPhone Social Bookmarking 49

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Analytics & Research In a survey across thousands of large companies who actively monitor their stats online, only 35% stated that they actually changed their website based on what they saw. Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available.

Resources 77

Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Webbiquity SMM

JULY 12, 2010

In all but the smallest companies, there are often multiple individuals tweeting, networking and even contributing to the company blog. What: what type of information will you use to attract a social media following? Update your company’s Facebook page? What is your company aiming to accomplish through social media?

Report 191

Report Social Media Strategy Policies 191

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Because virtually 100% of companies are now involved in social media—whether they acknowledge it or not. Even without any formal plan to use social media, every organization with more than a handful of employees (and many under that benchmark) is present in social media because people are talking about them.

Policies 180

Policies Social Media Guidelines Plaxo 180

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

But fundamentally, 1) there are now far more online venues than just your website or blog where you and/or your company be found (social media pages and profiles, articles, videos, etc.), Social Media and Search Optimization Integration by SEO Wizardry. Google on Manipulating Search for ORM by Outspoken Media. ** 5 Stars.

Tips 179

Tips Press Release Reputation B2B 179

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

I eager to see some Mixx functionalities especially the groups that can really reshape the Digg frontpage and push usability up for users… ok maybe marketing companies pushing for digg frontpage won’t be happy, but hey its a community, there’ll be always good opportunity, just gonna change the approach. Answers Yahoo!

Digg 100

Digg Sites News API 100

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2011

use automated social bookmarking tools like IMAutomater and Shareaholic tips for increasing traffic to your blog. J-P De Clerck reports that less than half of companies have blogs, despite the fact that “blogs are real social media hubs and cornerstones of inbound marketing.&# What’s Up, Blog?

Tips 176

Tips Sysomos SEO WordPress 176

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks. services like social bookmarking or photo sharing. Software development companies are keen to make their product or service a nexus of attention. A PLE could be implemented as a mashup.

Web 2.0 165

Web 2.0 Wiki Metadata Social Bookmarking 165

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

500 companies now call social media “very&# or “somewhat&# important to their marketing or business strategy. The early agenda is to earn your way into a trusted relationship,&# Bob Wheatley explains how to build social media marketing programs around what your audience cares about, not your corporate messaging.

Social Media 198

Social Media Tools Tips ROI 198

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? How about a real-time search tool to see what’s being said about your company or any topic of interest right now? Interested in an easy way to stay current on key Google Analytics traffic stats from your desktop?

Tools 188

Tools Social Media Radian6 CoTweet 188

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

Social Media 200

Social Media Tools Strategy Tips 200

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Build ego searches using Technorati and Google Blogsearch. Use Google Reader to store your ego searches. Use WebsiteGrader.com to make sure your site is well built in Google’s eyes.

Social Media 280

Social Media Brands Technorati RSS 280