Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. It’s about humanization.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. You market, by not marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Uniquely, though, Fixya has partnered with some companies to provide an official channel for crowdsourced tech support. 22 Comments. Graphic Design.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. After all, Facebook could eat the web. I know I would.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

How to Develop a Social Media Strategy: A Roadmap for Integration (Very Official Blog): Shannon Paul did an amazing job on this post that presents questions and answers that will help companies consider their goals for the creation of a social media strategy. Why not see how some companies are gaining from it right now?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Smashing Magazine ), among other things. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. While I used to write for two huge blogs (Lifehacker and Search Engine Roundtable) that required 4-6 posts per day , I know how incredibly difficult it is to do this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Reply Todd Mintz July 29, 2010 at 1:40 pm If I think the person is just after free information, I give off a “skunk smell&# sorta vibe…it usually scares them away : ) Though I’m a bit of a sucker for a free meal (if I like the company I’m with)… Reply Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 1:45 pm LOL, I do hear you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

SEO for Facebook Pages Your Page is visible to search engines! Now that you’ve created your custom landing page, keep in mind that search engines see the page layout in the same way that someone who is not a fan of your page would see. I am not a programmer and can’t say whether this page I admire uses the FBML.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Quite frankly, I don’t think there’s really a good person running the company. A good company leader would actually recognize that a social news network implies that there are participants involved and that the users are the most important part of the service. Duymadim.com: Bunudam?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical). Marty Weintraub – @aimclear.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : The SEO Success Pyramid : Matt McGee talks about the process of making great websites. Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection : At Search Engine Journal, Ann Smarty has compiled a list of the most valuable tools to perform SEO analysis. Every post is a winner! What is the Definition of SEO?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder is a co-editor of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE Magazine. For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. He also founded Search Engine Watch. Do something epic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Dan Schawbel, recognized as a “ personal branding guru &# by The New York Times, is the bestselling author of Me 2.0 , a national speaker, and the publisher of both the award-winning Personal Branding Blog and Personal Branding Magazine. It also shows up on all search engines. Photos by Shutterstock.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

The magazine industry is crumbling. As Ruud Hein points out over at Search Engine People, their homepage is also huge. That’s more than five times the length of the New York Times homepage at 3,900 pixels. To be exact, it’s 22,000 (!) pixels long. TechCrunch has never cared much about page views. Gawker editor A.J

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