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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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3 Golden Business Rules for Social Media Engagement

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A response came from a business owner who had the perfect answer on her website and directed the original poster to the website for a detailed reply. When I reviewed the poster’s account, I understood why. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. They might have to spend time doing instead.

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Learn to Walk Before You Run | Social Media Strategery

Social Media Strategery

DB Any statistics on adoption rates and times for internal social networking? DB Any statistics on adoption rates and times for internal social networking? If you look at the stats on contributing to Wikipedia you find that there are a very high percentage of older editors. Enjoy the conference!

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Social Pros 18 – Ike Pigott, Alabama Power

Convince & Convert

Eric : Yes, and maybe that’s the question, how do they define embracing social media? If it is embracing social media in the sense of prospecting, or does it mean embracing social media as having a brand outpost on a social network? tetanus, that will be the new official for the Social Pros Podcast.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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