Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

Branding is particularly relevant for small and medium sized businesses or start-ups who are looking to start or increase their social media voice. The book begins with some branding 101 and then provides examples of the benefits of Wikibranding. But before we get started: what exactly is a Wikibrand?

Review 142

Review Company Klout Policies 142

Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

There are social media sites, social bookmarking sites, review sites, shopping sites…I could go on and on about the type of other sites (other than search engines) that might use this meta data. For example, you might create a spreadsheet with all of this data: URL. Title (from the title tag). Yes, I did.

Engineering 112

Engineering Widget Social Bookmarking RSS 112

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

For example, from SocialOomph, you can also schedule Tweets, even bulk upload them. Some are free, some are part of their paid service. I tried their paid service and I just felt that that overall, the services were clunky and in some cases, redundant to tools I like better.

Tools 163

Tools Klout Policies HootSuite 163

Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. By the way – I love the $2 bill as an example of social media currency. 640 Million on Facebook. Million users on YouTube. Think about it.

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Lurker Klout Policies Consultant 203

Kikolani

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Twitter Direct Messages: Best and Worst Practices Examples of the common types of automated Direct Messages sent through Twitter, plus your thoughts on the types of DM’s you prefer and despise. Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO. Your Favorites. Best of Blogging on Kikolani in 2009.

Postrank 130

Postrank Social Media StumbleUpon HootSuite 130

Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

Let’s look at some examples of ways you can give away free products to help you make money. How Giving Away Product Makes You Money – People love free. It doesn’t matter what you sell, if you offer something for free, people will feel like they are getting the best deal of all. Related Posts.

ROI 126

ROI Social Media Google iPad 126

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplement your email list with your contacts’ social network info? Find out if the username or vanity URL you want is still available across dozens of social sites? Display a feed of brand-related comments from a variety of social networks on your website? Create video emails? JustUnfollow. DialogFeed. ** 5 Stars.

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Tools Social Media Lithium Sysomos 206

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Week 5: Get social. Week 8: Social bookmarking and Library 2.0. A good example of a community wiki in practice. Week 2: Flickr and photo sharing. Create a flickr account and post a photo. Week 3: Play week. Play with an Image generator. Play with LibraryThing. Week 4: RSS feeds and Feedreaders. Install a feed reader.

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Web 2.0 Library Wiki Exercises 100

Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

His second point got me me thinking about what I’m going to write about now – in what ways can the government use social media to make a difference in their day, TODAY? What are those things that they can do with very little effort where they can start see the value in social media? Add RSS feeds to your website.

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Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Social Media Wiki 56

Kikolani

JANUARY 29, 2010

40 examples of typography inspired in web design. Monday I attended the Social Media AZ event in Tempe and learned a lot of valuable information on blogging, social media, and SEO thanks to a great selection of speakers. What is a good starting budget for an online business ? Businesses can help Foursquare survive.

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Mashup Resources Adsense WordPress 116

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

See, for example, the Aitkens wedding blog. See, for example, the H5N1 blog or SCOTUS blog. Take, for example, the BBC Editors blog ([link] where there are over a dozen authors yet one personality comes through: people who are passionate about news and feel strongly that the editorial decisions they make are based on sound reasoning.

Types 113

Types Conversation Badge Journal 113

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

There is some stuff coming out around "Personal Learning Environments" for example, take a look at: ePortfolio Model and the Concept Diagram for Personal Learning Landscape. For example, if you look at the diagram from the post I cited above: Jeremy has a good model of the likely elements along the bottom. where the "."

Web 2.0 122

Web 2.0 Research Tools Wiki 122

Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

After you’ve published your blog, you should post it on your Facebook Business Page , tweet it on Twitter , share it on LinkedIn , bookmark it on social bookmarking sites, and post it on document sharing sites. While that sounds like a lot of posting, there are some tools to help you streamline this process.

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How To Google Reader Social Networking Ping.fm 132

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

UPDATE -- Check out comments for some GREAT examples of this weeks challenge. " These kids are a tremendous example of looking at the assumptions and issues within an existing system and beginning to ask important questions about why things are the way the are. Remember--this is "no pressure" fun with Web 2.0,

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Project Web 2.0 Wiki Flickr 234

Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

For example, instead of telling me that there are 150 Million people on Twitter, tell me how many people on Twitter are talking about the same things I am. It isn’t that we need a tool that does everything. There are some tips, but they are essentially 101 tips.

Postrank 134

Postrank Analytics Tools Klout 134

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. And that differentiates StumbleUpon from the other social “news&# networks.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In Tonys screencast example (below), "Moodle" and "WizIQ" are the two search terms hes using. You can download Social Media Game Cards here from the conference workshop page. Also note that on the conference page I included some examples of ways to use social media specifically for learning.

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Project Web 2.0 Module Wiki 265

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

However, did you know that you can bookmark on del.icio.us Then your bookmarks are easily mined from your nerve center. This works for any RSS feed, not just bookmarks. How to blog from Gmail (Gmail + Wordpress/TypePad/Blogger + IMified). Using Gmail as a Massive Database. I revel in information. Cant get enough of it.

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Bookmarklet Yahoo RSS Feed 238

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados?

Plaxo 103

Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Let’s take article marketing as an example. Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Make it easy for your readers to share your posts by installing social bookmarking plugins like SocialMarker and Digg Buttons. But again, it all depends on you and your situation.

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Directory Press Release RSS URL 55

Mindjumpers

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Tweet Pinterest, the social bookmarking tool for images and videos launched in 2010, has become a new favorite platform for many of us – myself included. GE is a great example of how to leverage and feature user content with a board only devoted to fan photos taken during their #GEinspiredME campaign. million in September.

Brands 271

Brands Social Bookmarking Retail Statistics 271

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. Social Media. bookmarking. Popularity: 17% [ ? Share This. Select Category. Blog Council.

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Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

To view bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, type in: [link]. To view bookmarks tagged with two or more keywords, type in: [link]. So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in: [link]. An example for all you productivity junkies might be “tag:gtd&#. Newsmasher.

Social Bookmarking 235

Social Bookmarking Delicious Google Reader RSS 235

Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Let’s me explain, using a specific example. Let’s say, for example, that you’re browsing Google+ What’s Hot page, and see a photo or image that someone shared. Then, you could upload the image to your own feed/timeline or simply share it on another social network. Social Bookmarking Social Media'

Google 122

Google Social Bookmarking Feed Feedly 122

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For example, a news release may be written, search-optimized and then distributed through wire service like Marketwire or PRWeb. But it may also be sent to specific journalists and bloggers, who need to be followed up with, shared socially, and have any questions or comments responded to. How much website traffic did it drive?

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Findability Directory Social Bookmarking B2B 197

Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

The actual answer to “when was the first social media site launched” is debatable. SixDegrees was certainly one of the first, but you have to define what a social media site is before you can say which is the first. So, how old is social media? They also debuted Reels , an Instagram video feature , in 2019.

Social Media 145

Social Media MySpace Tumblr Foursquare 145

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, the ACLU  and civil libertarians might want to promote use of the tag "safeandfree" to aggregate posts about reforming the Patriot Act. To get started, visit the popular social bookmarks manager del.icio.us  or another social bookmarking Web site and pick a tag that for your organization or cause.

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Tips Drupal Open Source Social Bookmarking 174

Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Other cool features include allowing people to subscribe to your blog via email, and being able to add email and social bookmarking links to the bottom of your posts. For example, I use Gmail for my email, but I login with an @viperchill.com address and have even replaced the Gmail logo with my own.

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Resources Netvibes Marketing Delicious 77

Kikolani

APRIL 7, 2010

In the above examples: The auto warranty companies could add facts to their advertisements which would prove their authenticity above the scammers so people could trust them. One great way to use social media is for customer service. For example, if you have a Facebook Page setup, your customers might ask specific product questions.

Social Media 165

Social Media Social Bookmarking Hotels Social Networking 165

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Features , Social Web , Trends.

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Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Ultimately, I used a combination of continued social sharing, reaching out to people I knew directly (via email, instant messenger, etc.), social bookmarking, and creating supplementary content on popular article marking networks (back when those were great traffic generators).

Engagement 141

Engagement Module eBook How To 141

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For example, if Acme Widgets wants to rank for the very competitive phrase “widget management software,” and their corporate site is at acmewidgets.com, they may want to use the URL widgetmanagementsoftware.com for the blog. An alternative approach is to treat the blog as a separate entity with a meaningful URL.

WordPress 185

WordPress Hubspot URL Widget 185

Kikolani

OCTOBER 26, 2011

properties, social bookmarking sites, forums, just to name a few. Let me give you an example: Dumping every single keyword in your KeywordLuv link is a huge mistake; the kind that can minimize all your link building efforts. This is a good example of deep linking , i.e. linking to your internal pages instead of your home page.

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Comments FeedBurner NoFollow Blogosphere 167

Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

Health, gambling, forex and gaming industries for example, are very competitive online. The phrases in the example above are considered to be long-tail phrases as they contain more words and have a much smaller search volume, but they’re also easier to rank for. Let’s look at ViperChill as another example here.

Industry 76

Industry SEO Strategy Directory 76

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, the priorities for a PLE are different for a tertiary student, a university administrator, an instructor, a working professional, or an adult who persues an eclectic path of lifelong learning. This article has been compiled after tracking recent conversations in the blogosphere and following social bookmarks.

Web 2.0 165

Web 2.0 Wiki Metadata Social Bookmarking 165

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The following is a simplified example. Well, here’s how: Technorati : Type in the word of the topic you want, for example “learning&# , “history&# , “atheism&# , “education&# or whatever you want and you’ll get a list of recent blog posts tagged with those words. --> Passion-Based Learning.

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FeedBurner Web 2.0 RSS Education 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and others â?? Instead of centralized, instructor-controlled learning, PLEs are distributed, social and learner-centric. As this examples of organizing PLEs indicates, each learner will create a different collage of tools reflecting their personal preferences and learning needs.

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Wiki Aggregator Social Bookmarking API 184