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JULY 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Industry News > Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them by Tamar Weinberg on July 1, 2010 Share Inspired by my recent post on How Young is Too Young? ,

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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). These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. Here are some key ideas and takeways — as well as inspirational bloggers you might want to follow — who can help you realize that dream. Eloquence My three favorite bloggers are Brian Solis , Lisa Barone , and Adam Singer.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Social media, on the other hand, allows you to connect directly with the audience you want to target, on common ground, and build relationships. For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. You won’t be able to scale your brand on fifty social networks.

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OCTOBER 5, 2012

50 Essential Tools I Use For Blogging and Freelance Writing – As a freelance writer and professional blogger, it is essential to have a reliable arsenal of tools that allow you to promote your blog and manage your business. Here are 50 to help you with marketing, social media, promotion, productivity, and financial management.

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MAY 12, 2010

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly Still not sure how to take action on this rule of thumb?

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JUNE 10, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging > How Young is Too Young? Today, there are young bloggers who have their own websites and blogs. A resident of Western New York, he’s not just a blogger but a podcaster. How Young is Too Young?

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Advertising Building your personal brand is about interacting with others and establishing your credentials. Logging onto social networks only to propagate self aggrandizing propaganda will turn off potential clients. The best you can do is explain it as clearly as possible.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. We both have difficult jobs. That’s just fine.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Your Status Matters Twitter is not just any kind of social networking site. That’s the model that works best for bloggers, and it works the same for social media too.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

This turns bloggers sour, thinking that everyone in public relations or blogger outreach is just a spammer. It’s time consuming to look at which bloggers to target, read posts, and then write a personal message to the blogger along with the actual pitch. However, if you want really good coverage, you’ll do it.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing > How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search by Tamar Weinberg on April 22, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Evan Britton, founder of Sency. I wanted to find out why.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

For those die hard SEO practitioners who don’t see the value in social, this article shows the last few months’ impact on search engine rankings. Ultimate Blogger’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization : There have been a lot of guides on blogging and SEO, but this is the latest and has good info.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News. This is not a real example, readers.) It’s not a way to pawn for votes on other social networks. Still stuck? Thanks Kristi !)

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JULY 15, 2010

favorite bloggers loves using big words, but I realize that I spend 3-4 times longer on this blogger’s posts than I do on all other posts because of the verbosity and complexity of the prose. To be a great blogger you’ve got to think like a reader…Thanks! What’s a good example of this?

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you do it right, tie your release to a current news item the media is interested in and then present it in the right format, you’re likely to see your news content on the evening news, in print or on a media website. One example is a company that offers temporary office space. Learn to think like a citizen journalist.

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JANUARY 23, 2008

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. Does social media convert?

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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.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Three cheers for them!

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks. Most of my social network profiles are business-related, however I have reserved a couple for friends and family only.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show).

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. You can have a create a network or a group bookmarking account so that anyone can add new bookmarks, tags to existing, and add comments.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Accept a New Normal When I talk about accepting a new normal , I’m talking about two different aspects of life. Take my own situation as an example.

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JULY 8, 2008

What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? There are days when marketers may have to serve as internal evangelist by introducing key stakeholders to social media.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

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. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Alone Doesn’t Cut It Social media marketing alone is not enough. There’s a lot more to marketing than just being social. For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. SEO and social media are two entirely different things. Demanding more is selfish. We consume, but do we act?

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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. You can promote your social media profiles by integrating offline media. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Little did I know that once I stepped out into the real world that I’d meet teachers that were both knowledgeable and caring, and Chris and Gary are examples of both. .&# I realized that I’ve had nary a teacher who really excelled in both areas. The bottom line is that both Chris and Gary are really nice guys.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

How to Nail a Job Interview (and Actually Get the Job) (Brass Tack Thinking): This particular article actually doesn’t talk about hiring via social media, but has some good advice for general job seekers. Here are other examples about how to leverage the popular video sharing site to get a job. Yeah, you guessed it. Enough said.

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. Twitter as a news breaker. Your mileage may vary. This, too, is useful.

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MAY 5, 2010

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral).

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MAY 13, 2008

The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent. For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack. For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In that particular post I looked at the green industry from the perspective of a blogger and shared some of my findings. After that I’m going to give two examples in different industries showing how you can use these services – and the information they generate – to your advantage.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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