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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

So here’s a simple rule of thumb to live by: if you’re going to launch an external social media initiative – even something as simple as an official Twitter handle – make sure it’s properly supported on your primary website and via your email communications. Calling attention to social profiles? Calling attention to mobile apps?

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s why T-Mobile succeeded with a flash mob. Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s why Susan Boyle’s “Britain’s Got Talent&# audition video is now hovering at 86 million views.

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. And that’s the key differentiator of social media: we, the consumers, can have one loud voice, that companies and other people listen to.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here’s 2006. 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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Blogging: Social Media is Not Only About Social Media Sites

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Don’t wait until you need a story published, or until you want to be used as a source. Larger companies may mobilize a large fundraiser, but smaller companies can host smaller community drives as well. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Get to know the press before you need something from them. All rights reserved.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

At the same time, the concept of “free&# is empowering individuals to become publishers, as any individual can now harness free software online to create his/her little on place on the web. Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! Now, the mobile Web is here.

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