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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog.

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Building Trust: A Relationship is Not a Newsletter Opt-In

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’m not connected to the LinkedIn individual who spammed me, but he still took the liberty to use my email address for his personal gain in a completely unsolicited fashion. Tagged as: facebook , linkedin , opt-in , permission marketing , relationships , social media , spam , twitter { 5 trackbacks } Hostage Marketing: Hot New Fad For 2010?

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca It says, “we are not hip, we’re still living in the old days.”

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. Neither the tweet or the follow up direct message was responded to in a timely fashion. The Facebook page could be totally overrun by bandits and they’d never know because they aren’t paying that much attention.

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Writing on social media strategy has still gotten me my share of dance and fashion clothing pitches. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Would you really want to become another Lois Whitman ? I’ve yet to blog about either.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At the same time, I think it’s imperative that kids, both my age and younger, get the opportunity to play outside and experience nature, family, and some good old-fashioned reading before they start using computers heavily. She’s “blogging&# in an offline, old fashioned, paper journal right now.

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