Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Jim Tobin: Today I’m happy to share with you 15 lessons it took me 15 years to learn in social media, and I’m trying to make it have 15 key takeaways for you to use today. A bit of a reminder, I’m Jim Tobin, I’m the founder and CEO of Ignite Social Media. They’re not really mapping the social network.

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Pixlee

APRIL 4, 2017

Back in 2007 when Chris Messina —then a designer at Google—suggested the use of hashtags on Twitter for creating “groups”, no one thought the little pound symbol that could become as widely adopted for news feed sorting and searching as it has today. The issue is, as with most things involving social media, how do you track hashtags?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It can be easy to forget, in our passion for a cause, that others may not start out with the same level of engagement or the background information needed to grasp a complex message. Toronto : Imagine Canada , 2007. Google Analytics. Social networking. December 2007 (11). November 2007 (12).

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Diva Marketing Blog

MAY 23, 2012

About Brandswatch : Launched in August 2007, Brandwatch develops tools for monitoring and analysing social media conversations. Joel is the Community Manager at Brandwatch where he is responsible for all of Brandwatch’s presences online, including social networks like Pinterest. Our interview is with Joel Windels.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2007. Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. Social Media: Who Can Show Us the Real Value?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. 4 Reasons Many Big Brands Downplay SEO : Why aren’t all Fortune 500 companies engaging in SEO? Not anymore — it’s about social media (which typically encompasses blogs too).

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Social Media Strategist Develop comprehensive social media strategy, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace), blogs, video, stand-alone social newtorks, social commerce and more.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. People visit social networking sites because they want to have conversations that dont involve sales pitches.

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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. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2010

Social Media by its nature works on two levels one is engagement levels with the members and the SEO level. If we go a little deep both engagement and SEO get better with consistent efforts.They require the time factor to get established. Social networking sites like Facebook have drastically changed the way we use the Internet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Your social media pages offer places where people interested in your ideas are already gathered, so you don’t have to take a “hit or miss&# approach to beta testing. It showcases your company’s personality Engaging through social media lends itself to more personal contact with customers.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

There was no engagement and his ratio of followers to following was close to one-to-one. But that was a few months ago, and I’m naive enough to think that others won’t be so silly in their online engagement activities. The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

I asked several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants. Social media success is about being engaged.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 22, 2011

Rapportive is a social CRM, giving you important information about the person who is emailing you. If they’re connected via social networks, you get their picture, their location, and job titles, in addition to their Twitter feed and Facebook updates (if available) and links to their social profiles.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Take ownership of building engagement with your readers. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience. Focus less on the number of eyeballs, and more on engaging the hearts of the right readers. Teach and engage readers through challenges using various mediums.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Analytical Blogs that take a good look at data and analyze it clearly are hugely resourceful. Brian Solis does this with regular status updates of everything in the social media marketing and PR universe. That’s why you need to engage in other communities, on Twitter, and anywhere else you may find them.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 22, 2019

Although it joined the game a bit later than some of the other popular social networks (Instagram launched on October 6, 2010 while Facebook started in 2004, Twitter in 2006 and Pinterest in January of 2010), Instagram certainly has made a name for itself in the industry. Video posts receive 38% more engagement than image posts.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Analytics & Research In a survey across thousands of large companies who actively monitor their stats online, only 35% stated that they actually changed their website based on what they saw. Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. Engaging on the Pages Themselves Let’s take another issue that more people can relate to. I can’t!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Perhaps this is a fact that her agency overlooked, so as a good friend, I told her that it would be in her best interest to learn about approved tactics through the many free blogs , to engage in acceptable and informative (though not free) SEO training , and to read the best SEO book/training program (aff). Buyer beware. Comparison shop.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Challenge for the Social Media Consultant In social media marketing, you can easily become book smart. See, it’ll take an incredible amount of time to engage in the education, but when it relates to social media marketing versus SEO, there’s something missing in the equation: experience.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

” I was asked this question while on a Q&A panel back in 2007 while at a conference in Las Vegas. ISO Settings in Digital Photography – I wrote this in 2007. This is the question that I was asked back in 2007 while I was in Las Vegas at a blogging conference. In Today’s Episode Examples of Evergreen Content.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

” I was asked this question while on a Q&A panel back in 2007 while at a conference in Las Vegas. ISO Settings in Digital Photography – I wrote this in 2007. This is the question that I was asked back in 2007 while I was in Las Vegas at a blogging conference. In Today’s Episode Examples of Evergreen Content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

The “pitch&# was to offer a quick solution to increase their content and social networking offerings in a very rapid and inexpensive manner with minimal risk and resources required. They were talking to me, talking to each other, contributing - there was total engagement and attentiveness. November 2007 (11).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

| SMO ABC March 4, 2010 at 10:23 am Facebook : Facebook Fan Page : Search Engine Optimizician March 8, 2010 at 1:11 pm WELSTech » Blog Archive » 122 – Social Networking Show and Tell March 10, 2010 at 6:02 am 4 reasons why you need a facebook fan page | CONFIDENCE IS AN INSIDE JOB ™. Be creative!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Crane (1972) first described the loosely-affiliated but highly interactive networks of scientists as "invisible colleges." Additional information on this project and extended case studies will be published in a forthcoming book, Science on the Internet (Olson, Zimmerman, & Bos, 2007). Author Index. About JCMC.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

RowFeeder is built for just such as circumstance, with tight Excel integration (version 2007 and newer) that provides both raw data for geeks to pull like taffy, plus canned reports that are better than most. For social media professionals inclined to get their mathematical hands dirty, it’s a winning combination.

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