Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 5, 2013

The first is a response to Yahoo! Image: phunkstarr via Flickr, CC 2.0. Whether you are a manager, an entrepreneur, a solo PR pro, a 20-something worker who is a cog in the machine at this point in her career, or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, you are well served to always consider others thoughts. While I disagree with Ms.

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Atom Thought

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

What happens if Yahoo also launches a social platform around it’s email service integrated with flickr? If you noticed, Google Buzz has already opened itself up by integrating Flickr, Picassa and twitter among other apps.So, the game has just begun, and may take a very different turn in future. Can this beat Linkedin?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 22, 2012

Clearly, the experiment of Facebook as a publicly traded company isn’t going well, though I think it is still too early to be called a failure. How ironic, then, that I believe taking the company private again will benefit it in the long term. Google is much more like Apple, Facebook is more like Yahoo!).

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Twist Image

MAY 19, 2012

Faced with bankruptcy--and realizing this deal costs the company a million or more a year--American decided to try and shut them down. How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet - Gizmodo. When I first rediscovered the Web in 2004, it was WordPress , Wikipedia , Flickr and Delicious that revealed to me a new future.

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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2010

Yahoo has decided to sunset some of its services, and that includes social bookmarking site Delicious. But before you panic about Delicious, it looks like there may be a future for them after all - just not at Yahoo. In their own blog, Delicious states that they will in fact remain open for business - just not with Yahoo.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Whether you are a business with brick and mortar stores or a company without borders, you should be tapping into the growing number of local audiences seeking products and services in their own locality. Flickr and Panoramio geotag and display these images in a mapping context. Google has added geotagging to Blogger.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, If you’ve got a highly visual product, use Flickr and Pinterest; if you can make video part of the mix, set up a company channel on YouTube and Vimeo. Four Worthwhile Link Sources.

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Social Media Marketing

JUNE 19, 2013

The lesson: if you represent a company, the content you create - even if ranting about another business - reflects on your company. Yahoo is supposedly acquiring Qwiki , an app that turns photos, sound and video clips into short movies. Image credit: Chris Blakeley (Flickr). What are we to make of all of this?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 22, 2013

I have clients right now who use their personal email addresses for work, and have seen quite a few other iterations of a business name incorporated into a popular email provider, e.g. “MyBusiness” [a] yahoo [dot] com. A company branded address seems more professional. Image: cascade hiker via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. Backed by Yahoo!, But the rise of Instagram as a deft and light app that allowed seamless integration into sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more made some wonder if there was a future for Flickr.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

Great news for Delicious users: the service has been acquired from Yahoo! As you may recall, in December I reported that Yahoo! Why has Yahoo! There may be a time of adjustment as AVOS re-launches Delicious, but the company's intention is to add new features and grow the service overall. What's next for users?

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Stay N' Alive

JULY 17, 2012

People keep saying Yahoo engineers and employees are going to feel less-likely to want to leave Yahoo now that + Marissa Mayer is the CEO. Here's why: Yahoo needs a complete reboot. If Marissa's smart, she'll kill just about everything except a few core projects the company is good at, and start over. Yahoo mail?

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 17, 2012

The first test prep company to teach students how to beat standardized tests was Kaplan Inc. The company was able to create a strong brand in the test prep industry, eventually growing in popularity and rivaling Kaplan Inc., So what can you do if your company is in Princeton Review’s position? Image: jeffweese via Flickr CC 2.o.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 22, 2013

Yahoo gets with the program, Google makes some major overhauls, Nutella goes nuts on a fan, teens know how to use privacy settings (and Twitter!), The Platforms Yahoo has had a big week. billion and overhauling Flickr for a more visually appealing experience and a free terabyte (TB) of storage for all users for free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

It’s incredibly easy for someone to put up a web page and show how much they like or dislike a company. You’ll get exposure to case studies of companies that do this well and review cases of companies where listening severe impacted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. How can I market effectively with Flickr ?

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Tweaklibrary

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Alphabet is Google’s parent company while Larry Page is Alphabet’s CEO (the 8th richest man in the world), and Sergey Brin is Alphabet’s President (the 9th richest man in the world). Microsoft and Yahoo! had a deal wherein Bing will power Yahoo!’s Click Here to browse on Yahoo. Mail, Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Just because you’ve heard that other companies are doing it doesn’t mean that social media will magically work for you. It finds your customers Companies using traditional marketing methods (e.g. It introduces your brand Is your company new? What are your goals? This builds stronger relationships over time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. 4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. I would add that social media has changed the game for companies. Specially Google, Yahoo and Msn. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. The big catch: Epic Change is not a large company at all. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If it was a Comcast product, you’d get a near immediate response from Frank Eliason , the company’s Director of Digital Care. It can instill faith that your customers have in your company. It can make all the difference in nurturing a positive perception of your company. Empower them.

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Laurel Papworth

MARCH 28, 2012

Online social gaming company, Rockyou with 32 million gamers, and $129,000,000 of funding, got fined $250,000 for revealing the usernames and passwords of their online community members, and putting at risk their webmail (Gmail, Yahoo etc) accounts. due to a TEN year old hack. fibbing about robustness of security. Astonishing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Reply Eddie Gear October 7, 2010 at 9:43 pm I can come across so many companies that do not even brand them selves in the fear of being considered as SPAM. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo! Building relationships takes time, energy and effort.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 13, 2009

Between online storage, email, web servers and my pictures, I use different companies for different things. I have lost my interest in Yahoo though I do follow their company information like the new CEO Carol Bartz. I have a Yahoo email address but I hardly use it. Flickr Rocks! Leave a comment!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm Lets say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. If you upgraded to the latest version of Yahoo! rocking out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. This may be nothing more than a refresher course in the Captain Obvious department but even the savviest of companies is still missing the boat. A lot of big companies I try to engage with don’t want to talk back.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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The Marketing Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

Subscribe to Blog Updates Feedburners Stats Email Subscription My Company About Hi, I am Daksh author of themarketingblog & co-founder of Iffort, a web-strategy & digital marketing consulting firm. The study says, among the top three search engines, Google sent the most visits to the four categories below.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Courtesy of Dean Meyers Flickr. companies say they plan to award base salary pay increases in 2011. Yahoo HotJobs has also seen a significant rise in positions with a social-media component, says a Newsweek article. Companies are fast realizing that personal use of these tools does not equate to expertise. 98% of U.S.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

Reply Lauren Kates May 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm OH MY GOD I have come across this EXACT situation with my company and was looking for an article just like this. Some companies are doing a good job but there seems to be a huge disconnect when it comes to some of the really big players, too. Answers Yahoo! It’s much appreciated.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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Saying It Social

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

“According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence. And 85 percent believe a company should not only be present, but also interact with its customers via social media.&# Buzz Index – Today?s if yes, please explain.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

If you work for a company that just had a Super Bowl ad, a real time search will give you a window into how people interpreted the advertisement. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site. Answers Yahoo!

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 5, 2007

Check out wis dot dm “We already have Yahoo/Linkedin Answers. Subscribe to Blog Updates Feedburners Stats Email Subscription My Company About Hi, I am Daksh author of themarketingblog & co-founder of Iffort, a web-strategy & digital marketing consulting firm. August 6, 2007.5:51 Do we need another site ?

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