ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Whether we’re blogging with words, videos, audio files or images, regular updates to a site—even one like microblog Twitter—are generally regarded as “blogging&#. Forums, which can also be considered within the content site category, tend to be more conversational, and less get-the-facts-to-you focused.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Your target market might be hiding in a niche forum somewhere out there. Offer value.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. Social media marketing, SEO, and forum marketing are the great ways to expand your market coverage. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Bloggers like Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent , who don’t have a team of bloggers at arm’s length, offer content on a very regular basis (in Valeria’s case, 6 days a week). Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Smashing Magazine ), among other things.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Conversely, with a slightly more generic subject matter (and the occasional gag post), Online Marketing Banter seems to be a little more popular with Stumblers. And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. It’s really not that hard!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Even a recent thread on Cre8asite Forums discussed this, kicking off by someone stating they find social media very intimidating. To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

My top three forums include Cre8asite Forums , Webmaster World (which is mostly free but also has subscription-only discussions), and High Rankings Forum. In the last few years, he moved his forever-changing content online in the format of members-only training guides and forums. Conversion expert.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. In an effort to make Facebook data more public, Community Pages let people share ideas, thoughts, and their interests in a fully open forum. Of course not. The process is risky.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). I’ve never even tried friendster.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I think you can struggle in either SEO or social media if you haven’t built up clients and are beginning from only a few assorted examples of work you’ve done for yourself. What if, through your client work, you were tasked with work requiring you to work on a completely different niche — for example, fashion?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. You can’t only write comments on forums. Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As a guide to crafting an effective social media policy, you can emulate or combine ideas from one or more of the many social media policy examples now posted online, including the 57 social media policy examples from Dave Fleet or the more than 100 examples posted by Ralph Paglia. Forums and discussion boards.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

That’s to say that if you use a public forum to insult, attack, or demean others on your personal time, you may find that impacting your company by association. It is nice to see people having an honest conversation. Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind. Also, I like the way you wrote to Julian. Just my 2 cents.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 25, 2018

But note that the Facebook algorithm prioritizes content that sparks conversations and meaningful interactions between people, especially those from family and friends. Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking site for sharing text, photos, links, videos, audios, and more. Tumblr – 642 million MUVs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : On the other hand, if you are Brian Solis, you need to know what to do as an expert and where to listen to the ongoing conversations. Scared of Social Media? You May Already be Pro!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. I explicitly had this conversation with this guy this morning… and I got the sense that he was overly generous. It usually ends the conversation right there.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Dirk Singer uses data from an ExactTarget study to show that “US Twitter users in April 2010 were far more likely than general Internet users to post to forums (75% vs 25%), blog (72% vs 14%), comment on blogs (70% vs 23%) and post ratings / reviews (61% vs 20%). be conversant, and retweet others among his best practices.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Rand Fishkin uses pretty pictures to explain the importance of social media marketing and how you can apply it to get better traffic, more conversions, brand awareness, and more. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&# Social Media: Under the Microscope (SiteLogic): Matt Bailey compares the traffic spikes to conversions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart. Really, try Propeller, you’ll meet some amazing people there and have actual intelligent conversations. (I

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. I’m currently running a Twitter and YouTube contest, for example.

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