Social Media Strategery

APRIL 27, 2010

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

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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.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Maybe the moderators of the forum you visit won’t care, but the incessant messages eventually annoy your followers and they’ll unfollow you, report/bury your submissions, or find another place to congregate that doesn’t include your spam. Want to self promote?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Three cheers for them! page views SEO ROI — 1.2

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves. It’s great to build a self-sustainable social network and then be able to sit back and relax while the users run the show. And Reddit doesn’t stop there.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

As a PI, I researched trademarks and products that may have had conflicting names with existing trademarks and I reported on the findings. In college, I worked as a student network technician and a Unix systems administrator. Building my first online community 4. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Events & ROI The Swix team understands that to understand social media’s true impact, you must track over a lengthy period, while simultaneously accounting for external factors that could skew results disproportionately. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix. Trade show.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. As I’m writing this, my Followers per Tweet (FPT) is 2.46 (21,395 follower, 8,687 tweets sent – note that some Twitter weirdness has been massively reducing number of tweets sent reported in some cases). Im Jay Baer.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Discussions on Day Two centered around the right balance of policies, rules, guidelines, and best practices for internal wikis; the risks of open vs. closed networks; and the need for open/transparent communication between IT and the user community. tools like blogs, social networking, wikis, etc. 1) Enterprise 2.0

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Higher Calling Media RT @SadieMHarris Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] [link] [link] MyCrowd.ca Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Stelzner This free tool may become your your new favorite social media companion (you really should check this out!) link] [link] Tom Schneller Is anyone using NutShellMail to manage their social media? I haven't used it, but looks interesting [link] [link] Meylah Community Anyone use NutshellMail? This, I'll try.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

If your goal is to create a truly collaborative environment across your organization, remember that a community like Intellipedia just doesn’t grow overnight. Start small and start with something that’s familiar to your user community. DB Any statistics on adoption rates and times for internal social networking?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In the age of the real-time Web, when every customer is a potential reporter, and there’s no place for brands to hide, you cannot rely on sloganeering. So, I peeked at YouTube. link] Jan_B @jaybaer is on a roll this week!

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The executive has to realize that to effectively use social media, you can’t designate somebody or some group as “the Web 2.0 It helps to have examples of other social media/networking successes by organizations similar to yours, so they don’t feel like they’re mavericks. guys&# handle that. The Whole. :

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content without community, without approachability, without humanization and kinship is ineffective. photo by AMagill ) More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Why You Should Use a Content Rationale Report Why D.I.S. Of course, content alone is not the answer. What do you think?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

We talk often about what department should lead social media, how to get leadership buy-in for social media, or what technology should be used, and while those are important discussions to have, you should be focused on identifying WHO should be leading the social media initiatives. Who leads the social media initiatives then?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

&# And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. A Social Anthropologist, Hidden In Your Keyboard Flowtown enables you to enter any email address, and the system instantly reports back where and how that address is connected on the social Web.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies. I encourage all of my fellows in government to find ways to meet their mission needs through community building and social media technologies.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

How did you resolve the various reporting/privacy requirements of hosting comments on a.gov server? When we stood-up our TSA blog in January 2008, there was no guidance on what the reporting/privacy requirements were for government blogs. How much, if any, outreach do you do on other blogs/social networks?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

If you’re trying to retain customers, your social program is more about listening, problem resolution, and turning customers into advocates. Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Didn't make it any more fun to send the reporting around, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. more here: Crushing the Myth of B2B Social Media | | Social Media Consulting … Share and [.]

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

There was not one mention of the possible loss of smell or loss of taste reported on numerous websites by real people (who have no relationship to one another and simply want to report on a fact and not a myth). 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Simply stated, you can upload a profile picture (200 by 600 pixels maximum, though there are some reports that 180 by 540 pixels might work instead) and start filling out the relevant details about your business. Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

link] Patrick Garmoe I'm not an attorney either, but from what I little I learned from covering courts four years as a reporter taught me, was that you never actually say you're sorry, because then you're actually admitting guilt. DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Really, Jay?

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 22, 2009

Combine this with the fact that research shows that a stable and supportive social network improves health outcomes for people with a wide range of conditions, from the common cold to cancer, and the potential for social media to fundamentally change how we view our healthcare, how we view our health , is phenomenal.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics. link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. Rebecca Kelley , Search Marketing and Social Media Consultant : A social media marketer needs to be an active participant in the social media sphere.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?) I’d be honored to have you join me.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. That would be a interesting exercise, wouldn’t it? Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

You actually need to involve yourself in the blog’s community, commenting and showing that at the minimum, you have a long term invested interest in the blog’s success, and not only when it’s beneficial for you. In the real world, networking in person can also help. They might already be trash-talking you.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Somehow, thousands of B2B companies seem to have come to the conclusion that because they aren’t being mentioned 65 times per hour on Twitter, that social media doesn’t matter to them, or their customers. At present we're seeing people dabble without a strong PR / Communications strategy behind them. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

(This is especially important now that Google and Bing are incorporating social content into real-time search results). Coming from a communications background, content calendaring (and then on the flip side, tracking metrics back to that content and program calendar) is something I've encountered a lot. Im Jay Baer.

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