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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

One particular favorite was YouTube, which announced that as of this month, they had received the maximum number of submissions and would be shutting down for a decade , after which time they would reopen and announce the best video on YouTube. Still, Facebook dominates in this space. What's in question is how users will react to it.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ustream and YouTube Video blogging is becoming increasingly popular, especially now that smartphones have better video cameras, and there are apps to upload them to video services, such as Ustream and YouTube. You can also upload to YouTube, which is great because then you can also receive video responses. Answers Yahoo!

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Is Social Media Worth it for You?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Low Return Industries These types of businesses tend to take a long time to create return in social media. Answers Yahoo!

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A Brief Introduction to The New Community Rules: Marketing on the.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you’re looking at buying a product or utilizing a service, chances are you’re looking for the sentiment about that product or service as well. That’s why social media is important. I hope that doesn’t detract you from buying the book! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Why You Should Fix Your House Before Inviting People Over

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are three examples of brands that appear to be taking this message to heart: Fandango.com Best-known as a portal for buying movie tickets online, the site is actually quite diverse in terms of its content offerings. Calling attention to social profiles? Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

More people were reached using one advert or one advertising channel. Again, this was not new – the British Empire enabled inter-continental trade centuries earlier – but the mechanism was still similar: a product was global by being sold in a series of local markets. This then drove even more traffic to YouTube.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you don’t buy the extended warranty it costs you just to call and try to get help. Apple is never about the customer but their own bottom line and not begin engaged with the customers about issues through social media shows this even further. But I don’t consider it smart to try to convert new buyers.

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