Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them. ABC News 7,482 8.4

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Social Media > Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up Thoughts on Digg’s Latest Features: Thumbs Up by Tamar Weinberg on December 17, 2007 Share When I was at Pubcon last week, Digg launched its highly anticipated images section.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Firebelly

JULY 23, 2010

Heres a simple primer, a list of do-nots that will help you to avoid some of social medias most perilous pitfalls. Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 20, 2010

10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News. 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed. An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites. An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites. Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So how well do major news sites perform in these areas?

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Do People Search for “Breaking News”? by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2009 Among news sites “breaking news” is a sought-after keyword phrase; I see it prominently placed in home page title tags all the time: And it’s not just general news sites.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media by Adam Sherk on January 4, 2010 I was going to post this last week but then opted wisely for letting myself enjoy a holiday break. Here’s wishing everyone an interesting and productive 2010.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. So far Google seems to agree.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! Anyway, on to the list! List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011. Here you go.

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Harp Interactive

APRIL 6, 2010

Backlinks, mentions and results for social news services such as Digg, Reddit, Newsvine & more, Mentions and backlink count from popular social bookmarking services including Delicious, StumbleUpon and Tweetmeme to name a few, Backlinks and search results on Micro-blogging sites, Answer Services like Yahoo Answers and.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 28, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News by Adam Sherk on January 28, 2010 Now that the first wave in the Apple iPad crazy-a-thon has past, I thought I’d do a quick round-up of what people are saying about the iPad from the perspective of the news media.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Twitterese — The new way to speak online | Main | Too much flash turns google off » November 13, 2009 social media marketings good news Interview with Dave Evan, Digital Voodoo and author of social media marketing, one hour a day Here's a quick recap of the video.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 6, 2012

With the new Facebook timeline, there has been a LOT of confusion, with some people arguing that you can’t re-organize photos at all with Timeline. The good news is that is false. In the past, I would go into Facebook and edit the photo and choose which folder I want the photo to live in going forward. see image) Clear as mud?

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Group lists top five social media risks for businesses By Sharon Gaudin As businesses increasingly try to figure out how to use social networking tools in the enterprise, an IT governance group has released a ranking of the top five risks social media poses to companies. Is Twitter actually moving away from the 140 character limit?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 30, 2008

Information Overload Research Group news wrapup. The article is currently at the top of the NYT most-emailed tech stories list, high on Techmeme , and is being blogged about all over the place. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Information Overload Research Group news wrapup : Comments. Email Dashboard.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

News Organizations on Google+: Which Pages Get the Most Engagement? The Fastest and Slowest News Sites in 2012. 5 Good Ideas for News Media Facebook Pages. Publisher Survey: Reddit Traffic Way Up, Digg Way Down. My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media. 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Advantage: SAINTS __ 2nd Quarter: Digg Ok, which team has seen the most activity on Digg? According to Digg’s search tool 1,549 Colts articles have been submitted, with only eight being promoted to the front page and three receiving more than 500 diggs. Please correct me if I’m wrong). How about the players?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. The major engines all produce some form of hot topic/trend list, and several third-party and social media sites do as well. Does this work?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 26, 2011

I was talking with John Shehata from ABC News yesterday about Facebook, and he brought up an interesting question. Facebook is certainly encouraging the use of the new subscribe button. Shortly after launch Facebook put up a list of media professionals that had already enabled the button. So what’s the right approach?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Alicia Keys Facebook Page: I’d Sign Up if She Asked Me All Cool by Adam Sherk on January 19, 2010 Want to use your Facebook Page to build out your mailing list? I noticed that in addition to the email list users can sign up for text and voice updates via mobile phone.

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Stay N' Alive

APRIL 16, 2011

A few weeks back, Eric Roach, Xydo.com 's co-founder and CEO, had lunch with me to show me a new, Digg-like network for sharing articles in a modern way. The service attempts to track retweets and shares across social networks to identify, automatically, what the top news of the day is. Xydo comes with a twist though.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Last week Twitter gave us their Top Twitter Trends of 2009 for categories like news events, people, movies, etc. And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. What were your top referrers/trends in Web search, news search, image search, blog search and video search?

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Super list of 50 social media links Have you ever wanted to know more about how to make a huge impact in social networking? I have collected a Super Link List from around the blogosphere for you to be all that you can be online! Leave a comment! Javo’s last blog post.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 26, 2010

Internet Evolution has come up with their first-ever list of the top 100 most innovative and influential people in the Web 2.0 In the social networking category, Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder of Facebook , beat out Kevin Rose, the Founder of Digg. News/Media. Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg. 3) News/Media. E-Commerce.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

So over the last few weeks my agency has dug up this list of easy-to-build backlinks you can get for any website. Create a local business listing for all of your offices. Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. An article submission site in the Digg vein.

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Sprout Social

JULY 21, 2022

To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. Form communities and discuss relevant news within them. Share news, articles and other content relevant to your followers. Examples: Pocket (pictured above), Digg, Pinterest and Mix. Directly connect with others.

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Types Social Media Microblogging Overview 145

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Weekly news magazines are declining, newspapers are shriveling, and industry trade magazines are downsizing. What do these trends mean for the future of news gathering and information delivery? Nor will they still be large monoliths attempting to maintain news bureaus worldwide. Examples range from Google News and Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 4, 2010

Facebook should be your social media hub of everything you have from company news, announcing events, offer tutorials, highlight videos, conduct polls and create community around discussions. But now with this new email feature you can upload your email lists and invite them to truly engage with you on Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). Digg died this week, basically, I guess Digg died several weeks ago but like it officially died this week. Listen Now. Why did it fail?

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Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Unfortunately, Technorati doesn’t actually judge the socially redeeming value of a blog; it only gauges popularity, so dumb blogs make it onto the list all the time. Here are a few that have made the list despite their banality. Balloon Juice. You couldn’t come up with a better name than Balloon Juice? There is no focus.

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Technorati Committee Survey StumbleUpon 137

Stay N' Alive

JUNE 12, 2011

One of the things I share on Twitter and this blog that I get the most comments on in real life has been that of Xydo , a personalized news service comparable to the likes of Digg , with a Quora -like twist (with the ability to edit, claim, and subscribe to topics of your choice). Xydo is a news service for all who like news!

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