Writtent Blog

JUNE 25, 2013

Would you read something about a 2012 political election, or best practices for using MySpace? The software behind Trapit never stops searching the web for the topics you care about. The social network holds loads of potential as a content creation resource for startups or companies just beginning to build out their persona insights.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Are there specific markers that indicate readiness within companies? Organizations evaluated, bought, and deployed software that everyone was supposed to use.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). Twitter can indeed satisfy many goals. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. It’s the same company that did the net promoter scores that kind of come up with a social media score that’s kind of parallel to that.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 21, 2013

It was the same year Facebook launched for Harvard students, the year after the arrival of Myspace, and two years before Twitter arrived. There’s no cookie or tracking software which can account for that. Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm. In March, 2007, I joined Twitter.

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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. A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 3, 2011

note: Neither my company or I have any financial interest in Inigral or the Schools App - I am writing this solely from the perspective of an SMCEDU Advisory Board member]. They run into issues when they try to approach it like “administrative” software, as if it’s going to work precisely within their business workflow. It doesn’t.

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 21, 2013

It was the same year Facebook launched for Harvard students, the year after the arrival of Myspace, and two years before Twitter arrived. There’s no cookie or tracking software which can account for that. Back in 2004, a film named Fröken Sverige was released, starring Alexandra Dahlströhm. In March, 2007, I joined Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Companies have to engage with their buyers, especially the early adopters, and make sure they’re happy.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

When I was in school, we had a TV, the stereo, and the (one) family telephone, but we certainly didn’t work with one ear to the phone and an iPod earpiece in the other ear while typing on our MySpace pages. Using a recording software and a microphone, you can “view&# vocal inflections, pitch, and thickness of the voice.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

How many developers have the liquidity to host their own software? Is that due to the natural progression of success (all big companies are eventually vilified) or a fundamental shift in Apple's brand promise as ultra hip and very convenient? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

With others who address me as Jennifer or Dakash, I wonder if these individuals representing both small and large companies really realize that their lack of research reflects poorly on their clients. Some have gone as far as outing the companies who have trodden down this path. I’m sure you can relate. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

As the world continues to watch the devastation caused by the BP oil spill, it shines the light much brighter on the impact that major companies have on society while increasing consumer concerns about business practices. If a company is “doing good,” don’t be shy about talking about it. Don’t be Shy.

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Diva Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Follow Dede on Twitter @clutchmagazine Facebook MySpace Angela Benton is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb 2.0. Her experience spans a variety of industries including consultative relationships with companies such as UPS, Bizjournals.com, Realestate.com, and Lendingtree.com. BlackWeb20.com

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

3rd party services are usually owned by the individual not the company. a companys success in content management is inversely proportional to the amount of information that is exchanged over email.â?? For example, MySpace grew by 609% in one year, from just under 3.5 million members in October 2004 to over 24 million in 2005.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. This makes no sense.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? s companies can use technology to place users in control of information, and is home to ongoing discussion about the user revolution and Enterprise 2.0 enterprise software. Software Abstractions. More info here.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. Show them aspects of your company that they didn’t already know. a customer needs to be able to trust in the company's product.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Either copy this feed address and paste it into your news reader software or click the relevant one-click subscription button: Feed URL: One click: Close. Google, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook are all incredibly young organisations. Our workforce is 50% female, a record for most companies in the sector. or become yesterdayâ??s

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. So, obviously the key players, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and MySpace made it onto the list of networks that they researched.

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Diva Marketing Blog

JANUARY 1, 2009

My second wish for 2009 is to find a software that not only provides Donna Lyons-Miller , GourmetStation 2006 I wish blog people would chill & be more open minded to innovation without damning those that try new things. Plus many more companies need to start blogging. So a 50% wish accomplished rate is pretty good.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2010

You will automatically know if you should be on MySpace, Flicker, or restrain yourself to Facebook. I do agree to some extent that a company needs to maintain its brand personality across all channels. Infact if you notice once you understand the brand person the way around comes with ease.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

My company has clients across the federal government, and I could get a meeting with pretty much any of them just by saying that I lead our social media practice and I’d like to discuss how their organization could take advantage of social media. By contrast, Twitter is in its infancy and already being embraced across government.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many social media software packages (great ebook analysis of them here) can provide highly detailed reports on the impact of social media programs. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0 link] jaybaer It will.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. my {Myspace|Facebook} group shared this {site|website} with us so I came to {give it a look|look it over|take a look|check it out}. my|our||my personal|my own} blogroll.|. Someone in.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

list of each team’s contact info on company intranet) would give people a taste of collaboration and encourage other small steps. list of each team’s contact info on company intranet) would give people a taste of collaboration and encourage other small steps. To further, social media are just tools and a means to an end.

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Socialized

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

MySpace, once thought to be the domain of teenagers, and Facebook, initially established as a network for high school and university students, both have large numbers of users in the age 45 to 65 bracket, but age continues to be a barrier to both social network and general Internet use. We are advertis’d by our loving friends.”

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

In no particular order, here they are: Make Friends In the Industry Community Managing is super easy when you’re working for a well-known tech company in the middle of Silicon Valley. But what if you’re Community Managing for a company that makes matchbooks? Who are the heavy hitters? An audience just sits and listens.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Will Facebook continue to grow and dominate the web, or is it headed for a fall like AOL and MySpace before it? Using a software service such as MailChimp allows you to add a simple sign up form to your Facebook business page and also get some great tools for creating the newsletter.” Why Facebook Could Disappear by MediaPost.

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