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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Let’s envision this scenario: a user has a support issue about an Apple product. Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. I’m going to stop there, though.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A 12-year-old resident of Missouri, Shelby’s Jericho website features a blog and has turned into a social good campaign with her promotion of charitable efforts for US troops , and even includes interviews with the cast and crew of Jericho as well as with US Air Force Thunderbirds and Alex O’Loughlin.

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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.

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Zicam: Loss of Taste and Smell - The Reputation Management Fiasco.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

with any other Social media campaign,if the content or the product’s not strong theres no pint in taking up the campaign Reply Daniele Rossi February 7, 2008 at 11:22 am I use ester-c when I feel a cold coming on. I pop in a good 1200mg every 2 hours and by the next day, cold is gone.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

Most people commonly try to target a huge audience with their Facebook ad campaigns where as many people have found the best strategy is to lots of ads, each targeting a tiny sub-section of users. You don’t need to see the Apple logo or even an iPod to have a good idea what those white earphones are plugged into.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In fact, in a test a colleague of mine ran with sponsored advertisements, the incentive-based campaign was much more successful than the original information-only campaign. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread. Can you get much actionable information out of it?

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Buyer beware.

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