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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

E.g. it’s almost a safe bet that events like the #Oscars or #SXSW will have a large group of people following the hashtag before, during and after the given event. This means there can be great value in timing news or relevant content around these popular events in order for them to have an engaged audience to spread the message.

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Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I ran a panel at the Penny Arcade Expo just over a week ago called “Community Managers: More Than Forum Monkeys&# in which we gave an (admittedly brief, as we only had 40 minutes) overview of CM in the game industry. This is probably one of the areas that the Community Managers Group should begin to focus on!

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StumbleUpon Etiquette Guide and Best Practices

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. Brief Overview of StumbleUpon Since everyone is mostly raving about Twitter and Facebook as of late, I’m going to briefly define StumbleUpon and explain how it works.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. In a specific case, I manage a few LinkedIn groups so my email address is far more visible on the site than I’d like. Many call this spam.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Top 5 Ways to Marketing Your Business with LinkedIn (Social Media Examiner): I have a client who said that this worked. 5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix (Online Marketing Blog): The personal account and company group is the beauty of an effective LinkedIn marketing plan. Enough said. C’mon.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. It’s a bit like group therapy. Yup, it’s true. It felt good to be exclusive.

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