Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

For example, “Here is my review of the best restaurant in New York (link pointing to your business).” Digg is great for traffic generation, and while not the powerhouse it once was, is still a large community. An article submission site in the Digg vein. Very active with highly engaged users. Foursquare.

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Hubpages Digg Foursquare Repository 167

Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Strangers become friends.

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Influencer Digg Social Networking Communities 85

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

Social Media 278

Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Kikolani

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Moms, on the other hand, aren’t hanging around Digg or Linkedin. This runs the risk of spreading you and your resources too thin to actively test any marketing strategy and it may wear you down as well. Be Active in the Community. The crux of social media is the sense of community that is on the network.

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Trends Social Media Tumblr Campaign 142

Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

As an example, Bloomberg Businessweek cites that fewer than 4,000 Facebook users have clicked the “like” button for Fidelity’s Page and about 9,000 have done so for Vanguard’s. As another example, Schwab, which began sending Twitter feeds in mid-June 2010, has 277 followers. Meanwhile 4.2 Conclusion. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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Banking Mobile SMS Technorati 137

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

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. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. This is not a real example, readers.) Great, now we have that out of the way.

StumbleUpon 181

StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

Social Media 191

Social Media Research ROI Technorati 191

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). Digg is now part of social media and will be explained in the final chart. There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook.

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Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

Twist Image

JANUARY 8, 2011

Answers can be voted up and down (ala Digg ) and you have the ability to follow the individuals and topics that are of interest to you. Here's a great example: Someone asked: What do people at Twitter think of Facebook? Imagine the ability to really ask serious and honest questions of your consumers and community members.

Questions 111

Questions Foursquare Digg Journal 111

Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

So I thought I’d take a look at some early examples of Facebook Open Graph integration on news sites. Consider the impact that Facebook Open Graph protocol integration will have on your existing on-site community features and social functionality. You can jump to the end for the Takeaways ).

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News Module Widget Facebook 149

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Social media marketing is a tremendous challenge, especially now that the market has become saturated with experts who clearly think that bringing their Digg front page success means that they’ve just launched a successful consulting business and can immediately sell their services to the highest (lowest?) My response: WRONG.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, they use a green background on Twitter, black background on their YouTube channels and maybe red on their Facebook fan page landing tabs. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Examples of baits are: graphics, eBooks, whitepapers, scripts, website themes, coupon codes, etc. Are my profiles well branded?

Questions 277

Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Choose metrics that make the most sense for the tactics you’re employing, and monitor results to determine which activities to increase and where a change of course may be needed. For example, she devotes six pages to why companies shouldn’t rely on interns for their social media strategy or execution. Social Events (e.g.,

Review 152

Review Social Media Marketing Handbook 152

Idaconcpts

AUGUST 18, 2010

Take iPhone coupons questions, for example. Join Online Shopping Communities. This site is sufficiently active enough to provide some great information that’s updated regularly, it’s moderated well so there’s no spam or irrelevant content, and it has a simple interface so new users integrate quickly. GAP, Wal-Mart, Amazon etc).

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Questions Social Media iPhone Applications 137

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Create your own marketing system I recommend that people take a portion of their day to learn as much as they can about what people are saying about them, as well as review competitor and partner activities, and peruse industry trends and case studies. Before you get active on social networks, start a blog.

Social Media 240

Social Media Brands How To Social Networking 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful.

Social Media 272

Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 5, 2008

19 am Recruiting Lessons from Google Jump to Comments How does Google manage to be different everytime Their recruitment advertisement in today’s Times of India Ascent is another example that ! Books on my Plate August 6, 2008.3:19 The world’s no.1 OTOH, a candidate screens the right companies for his job.

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Google Startup Web 2.0 FeedBurner 113

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Encourage Community Interaction In the simplest form, have a Facebook wall and ask your fans questions or share cool company or even personal insights with them.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

For example, by looking at ProBlogger, we are being told that the owner is not an amateur but a pro blogger. Let’s take Techipedia for example. For example, if I’m blogging to tell you the importance of traffic then I should also tell you how to get traffic in the same post. For example, my blog is three months old.

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Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

ProBlogger

JULY 22, 2014

Google+ is a fledgling community when it is compared to social networking giants like Facebook and Twitter, but its social signals have the most impact on search ranking results. The king of social networking sites, Facebook has an active community of over 900 million. Upvotes on Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon.

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Engineering Social Media Foursquare StumbleUpon 55

The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

If you are still evaluating the platform and are trying to estimate the possible returns, here are a few tips which you would want to consider: It doesn’t work for all – Business & Stakeholder Introspection Creating a campaign on Facebook & nurturing an online community requires a lot of time and effort.

Web 2.0 152

Web 2.0 Startup Metrics FeedBurner 152

Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. The great thing about Twitter is that anyone can sign up and easily find his “community.&# Digg, however, is really hard to “game.&#

Social Media 80

Social Media Strategy Digg Forums 80

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. Digg: Newsworthy, Informational, and Funny Chris also mentions that he has used Digg as a news source. Twenty-two minutes after it hit the front page, it sat at 2099 Diggs. He was 28.

Social Networking 101

Social Networking Digg StumbleUpon Social Bookmarking 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us No need for the traditional media to be the conduit of communication. If so, how?

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. It seems the activity level has fallen off. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

Marketing 279

Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Tweet activity. These are: The number of friends and followers they have. You can set the follower-to-following ratio range in this section.

Applications 179

Applications Review Statistics URL 179

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. The problem: he was not at all active on the high profile blog and hadn’t written a single comment. Why not get acquainted with the community now and before it’s too late?

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Blogger Press Release Marketing Instant Messaging 132

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

To see how Muck Rack stacks up against the competition I checked the volume of activity on some other Twitter press release services, but there aren’t a lot of apples-to-apples comparisons to be made. The answer lies in how much additional value the services can provide in terms of exposure and activity.

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Press Release Twitter URL RSS 145

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. Others aren’t. No, it’s still not a clear picture.

Social Media 163

Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. The first is personal.

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Social Media Influencer MySpace Consultant 229

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

Hotels 245

Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Communities of practice. For example, in this case you might focus on what it means to be a professional and the upmost importance of learning. Actively build your social networks so you can tap into them when needed. • Digg this. --> --> Trackback Pings. Keynote Speaking. Workshops & Seminars. Whitepapers.

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Diagrams URL Technorati Exercises 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

Communities 237

Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Schedule those important activities in your weekly calendar. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. Lately, I’ve been creating graphics with screenshots to point out specific examples. Bit you are the exception!

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250