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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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BrightEdge Awarded Patent for Operationalizing SEO

Bill Hartzer

Inventors: Yu; Jimmy (Foster City, CA), Yu; Sammy (San Mateo, CA), Park; Lemuel S. Cerritos, CA), Yip; Rolland (Foster City, CA). Assignee: Brightedge Technologies, Inc. San Mateo, CA). 12/855,668. Filed: August 12, 2010. What is claimed is: 1.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Genuine You don’t always have to engage in expensive video production to promote your wares, nor as the marketer do you have to create the video yourself. Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Funny Don’t you like making people smile?

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Citizen Journalism: Who is a Journalist Today?

Proactive Report

Almost half of all Americans (47%) now get some form of local news on a mobile device. Apple released the first iPad in April of 2010 and sold 3 million within 80 days. 3 out of 5 tablet owners consume news on their tablets and many news publications have created a tablet app.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social media should not continue to give off the mindset that it’s easier to get things for free. Lisa Barone made a really good point last month when she said that her productivity went up as a result of respecting her time. Sadly, it absolutely has. I’ll Respect My Time. ’ How right he was! Probably not.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In a post made by Seth Godin, he writes : My rule of thumb is this: every person you turn away because your product or service isn’t right for them turns into three great customers down the road. Even if your product is terrific, if your service is horrible, don’t expect your customers to stay. Answers Yahoo!