Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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. For me, FriendFeed is the #2 driver of traffic to my Web site, behind only Google.

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 3, 2010

I’m kind of into social networking (you may have heard). I’ve built a wide network of people that spans countries, industries, and areas of expertise and interests. We combine information from several sources; at the moment, these are Google Profiles,Gravatar, Plancast, Rapleaf.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Here are a few tips and tricks to get started developing your own personal learning network: Join a Social Network. ve all heard of MySpace and Facebook , and while those are great ways to connect with friends and colleagues, an even better place to start is a social network with a focus, like Ning. Comments rss.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I’ve got a few extra invitations to Google Wave and will randomly select some of the commenters. So, when you comment, please also let me know if you’d be interested in a Google Wave invitation. If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Even if you aren’t, please share your thoughts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

What I like most is the combination of RSS feeds, bookmarks and widgets in one tab (section) according to a context. I still need to work on linking to other social networks and to openID. Bulgarian Social Networks. Special Track on Knowledge Sharing using Social Me. How do social networks benefit us?

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Posted by Irene Koehler in Twitter on December 7, 2008 | 22 responses LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter – Wherever you are online, it’s all about networking. Finally, keep in mind that if your question can be answered through a google search, perhaps you might want to search google rather than asking a question here.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

As far as Custom search concern, you have to create new page with page title “Search Results&# and paste the code from Googles Search results code text box. I have also created a WP theme with Google Custom Search. I beleive you have already created Google Custom Search in Adsense account. Is your RSS dude taking a crap?

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Posted by Irene Koehler in Twitter on December 7, 2008 | 22 responses LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter – Wherever you are online, it’s all about networking. Finally, keep in mind that if your question can be answered through a google search, perhaps you might want to search google rather than asking a question here.

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LinkedIn Lijit Survey Reputation 204

Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Related articles which may interest you: BREAKING NEWS: It Takes Work To Get Ahead New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends LinkedIn-apalooza! In the virtual world, things are much more complicated.

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

4 Tales of Accidental Twitter Friends) Posted by Irene Koehler in Business , Networking , Social Media , Tips , Twitter on November 17, 2009 | 16 responses It’s true, I’m engaged. However we connect on Twitter and on other social networking sites, it’s all about engagement. I’m engaged.

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Engagement Twitter LinkedIn Reputation 233

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Gab Goldenberg writes a search marketing blog for which he has plenty of good arguments for you to follow by RSS feed. Tagged as: blogs , college , forums , law school , seminars , social media , vbulletin , wordpress { 2 trackbacks } What Can I Do For You, Commentators?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

LinkedIn remains my favorite social networking tool. requesting recommendations from those within my network, 2.) Subscribe to the RSS feed and get lots more! Chris Brogan advises businesses, organizations and individuals on how to use social media and social networks to build relationships and deliver value.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

4 Websites I Visit Daily My first stop every day (and numerous other periods during the day) is my email, which is hosted on Gmail or Google Apps. I dabble in social media sites, particularly Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. If that answer doesn’t suffice, I can assure you that I visit Google at least once daily.)

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 25, 2010

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! Related articles which may interest you: Social Networking Friends vs. Real Life Friends New Tool Makes My Email Work Harder and Smarter Who Influences You? Ready for Yet Another Social Platform? Plus, get a free book) Coming Soon: An Interview with YOU!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Find Missing Links in your Social Networks with MyBlogLog Connector. Use Connector to fill in the gaps in your personal social network. Whats cool about this is that it makes your Messenger contact list really come alive, transforming it into a socially aware RSS Reader. share an item on Google Reader.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. I certainly do not support the Draconian position that somehow social networks threaten email’s existence as a marketing channel. Will you spend some time thinking about how to integrate your social messaging, not building a throne for it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. Sometimes I see your postings first in my RSS reader, sometimes in Buzz. I turned off the posts on Buzz mostly for the issue that Google doesn’t truncate the posts.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant RSS 119

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? but a right-hand location on content sites.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur. Let me port my RSS feed to it and be done with it!&# Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. If you take time to see what other community members find interesting, then you might get inspired to craft content that would be interesting to the social internet at large. Still stuck? Check out these viral ideas.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. get Twitter mentions of your brand via RSS or email) or use a service like Backtype (backtype.com) to see comments across blogs and other social media sites (such as FriendFeed).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Me Too Agencies realize how hot social media is, and they are scrambling to add social media expertise (real or imagined) to their services mix. In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Does social media convert?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Reply Dana Bacon April 14, 2010 at 12:42 pm Social media without the “social&# is a shell of what it could be. I love reading new content via RSS, Buzz, Twitter, FB, etc. Don’t turn my Twitter stream into an RSS reader. It is something that always amaze me when I am talking about social application.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to be Human – Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] mycrowdca (MyCrowd.ca) Twitter Comment RT @instaboy – My favorite is 6. Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [.] I have subscribed to your rss feed as well. Thanks again.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I – and my generation-mates – belong online using twitter and connecting with people through social networking? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! My mom, who would never touch a computer or even a typewriter in the past, now searches Google for every cooking recipe known to man.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I – and my generation-mates – belong online using twitter and connecting with people through social networking? If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed ! My mom, who would never touch a computer or even a typewriter in the past, now searches Google for every cooking recipe known to man.

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Blogosphere LinkedIn Virtual World AJAX 175

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

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