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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Even a recent thread on Cre8asite Forums discussed this, kicking off by someone stating they find social media very intimidating. Through bad reviews, forums, and a threat of a class action suit organized through a website, HTC listened and now the consumers got what they wanted – a software update is promised for the end of March.

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I have a team of several community managers who work for me and we try to balance this several ways: News can be posted on our forums by individual community team members, but is posted from “Turbine Community&# if it’s a blog post on our bespoke social networks (my.ddo.com and my.lotro.com).

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

5 Important Web Video Lessons for Small Business Owners (Mashable/OPEN Forum): How are you going to make your video stick? How to Write Effective Press Releases in the Age of Twitter (OPEN Forum): It’s not really just the “age of Twitter&# – it’s the “age of social.&# Is it in your pitch?

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

Microblogging. Microblogging is the practice of publishing short content updates to platforms such as Twitter and Tumblr. A post refers to any social media status update, photo, or video, or an item shared on a blog or forum. User-generated content (UGC). See Vanity metric. See Social media management platform.

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