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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting. The issue at hand is not the fact that the company was virtually unknown.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users.

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Plutter Kite: The Ultimate Micro-Blogging Service

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter has major problems with uptimes, Plurk is missing some major features, and Brightkite is having issues with Verizon. Twitter went about this in the right way and it’s opened up a host of new applications, tools, and scripts. Most of these platforms are too young to be killing anything, and are generally unfinished.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. social networking.

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How to Use Facebook for Business and Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Another great way to do this is to host polls where you can get customer feedback. You’ll find that as your page grows, you’ll likely be tasked with handling customer service issues. Be on your best behavior — after all, good customer service is good social media marketing. Do we need to create a new tab?

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

A few nights ago, I went to the bloggers/Twitterers briefing for News.com new digital subscriptons for news hosted by Chief Executive Officer – News Digital Media and The Australian Richard Freudenstein and The Australian’s editor Clive Mathieson. Bottom Left: Member to Host (paywalls, Freemium).

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Quantum Entanglements: The Social Media Scandals

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

She was created and portrayed entirely by her “mother&# , Debbie Swenson, a middle-aged Midwestern housewife with some serious issues. The initial responses were mild and respectful, and even with that there were vehement objections from close Kaycee friend, web host, and confidante the BWG (Big White Guy, Randall VanderWoning).