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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Email facilitates communications. Guess what? His response?

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They’re tasked with contacting bloggers about different initiatives, sending out story ideas and “press releases&# (hopefully with a social component, since those are preferred by many bloggers). That makes it a lot trickier and everyone is finding their way through this new landscape.

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Paywall for News.com and Online Community Social Media

Laurel Papworth

No journalists, except a journalists that now work in social media and a few bloggers now paid to bring their audiences and expert knowledge to journalism (blogournalists?) e.g. my partner Gary Hayes being published in Wired and The Guardian. Or putting out a Press Release on How Press Releases Are No Longer Effective.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

5 Ways to Increase Your Blog’s Search Traffic (Search Engine People): In Glen Allsopp’s guest post for Search Engine People, he says that you can increase your blog’s search engine traffic by applying some tactics to old (already published) blog posts. I published a social media marketing book.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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11 Characteristics of Highly Influential Blog(ger)s

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I didn’t publish this right when I started writing it in January because it wasn’t a polished piece. I published a book, which, ironically, I scored through blogging. People don’t actively return to those press release sections of a website because they’re written in corporate jargon.

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How to Get an Influencer's Attention

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t make me read a press release to figure out what’s special about whatever you’re trying to highlight. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. …and so on.