Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media – even a simple reputation monitoring program – is a time intensive proposition that requires daily vigilance. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

It can’t be fed, it can’t clean up after itself, and it definitely won’t like you if you don’t burp it. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. &# question a hundred times. Thankfully, now I am.) You Need to Nurture It A newborn is unable to care for itself. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Definitely not being led by internet marketers. As for harvesting emails, the jury’s still out, but it’s definitely not the first (or last) network to go down this road. Reply FreeMarket Media Group March 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm I am pretty liberal when accepting friends on the Social Networking sites.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Anyway, I just got off the phone with a new client out of Canada, and we had nearly the same conversation that this post covers. Thanks for sharing.

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Proactive Report

DECEMBER 21, 2010

EyeforTravel published their 2011 Trends and their number one pick is the increasing need to integrate social content and activity on your corporate website. The rate of content sharing on Facebook has increased 500 percent in the last six months. the average Facebook users now shares 12 pieces of content a week.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In short, you’ll need to install the Static FBML app, add a custom tab, and learn the language, which is very similar to HTML, to create content that is appealing to your customers and prospects. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Apparently, according to Interspire.com – hyphenated websites like www.free-website-templates.com would rank higher than comapanyname.com if both their sites had identical content. In the context of outbound marketing, community management tends to be oriented around content creation & distribution and conversion tracking.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old. Simply change the tag in the URL to whatever you write about and you’ll find popular content around that topic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Consistency If you want your blog to be recognized as a household name, you better be consistent at providing quality content on a regular basis. Bloggers like Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent , who don’t have a team of bloggers at arm’s length, offer content on a very regular basis (in Valeria’s case, 6 days a week).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Think instead about social media traffic, good content, a cleanly coded website, slow progressive growth, and your site’s authority. This post is a somewhat technical approach toward dealing with duplicate content issues. How many of these new tactics have you adopted? Does Google PageRank Really Matter? :

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For those of you interested in continuing to follow the subject of "Social Media U," weve compiled an OPML file that contains most of the sites mentioned in this post. Alternately, you can just subscribe to a "best of" RSS feed here. Features , Social Web , Trends. classroom , education , gen y , opml , social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, jwz posted a great piece on how to access Facebook via a feed reader. I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. 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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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 26, 2010

More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. This description of StumbleUpon has been taken from the book: StumbleUpon [is] a social content discovery engine with bookmarking features. Instead, find the cream of the crop of your content, your best works.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

A few high profile folks have even called my readers lucky for getting great content without any up front monetary commitment. (If If you want great beginner social media content behind a pay wall, check out Exploring Social Media , a project I am working on with Jason Falls and some other great minds.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Sure, you can just pay someone to promote an article here and there, but at the end of the day, people are not regularly reading your content. You know, going back to my own history, Facebook [Fan Pages] and Twitter weren’t around when I started offering social media strategy. It’s social proof but nothing else.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

We’re not the only ones who do this but we’re definitely helping them communicate. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. Lacy : It’s interesting that you compare the News Feed and Beacon.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The official definition of crowdsourcing from Jeff Howe, is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call." Kluster Launches at TED: A New Product in 72 Hours. social networking. mobile web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

, also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader. Based on specific criteria, normally actionable takeaways and evergreen content, I review the content and post it here to share with Techipedia readers and new visitors. SEO: Strategy.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles. Integration Audit Am I integrating my social media profiles? Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site.

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I promote good content. I promote new people. Devoting a mere 15-30 minutes every day to keep the content fresh and engaging should be sufficient. I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. My primary was connected to FB and I found I didn’t like my FB feed scrolling as fast as I twittered.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Pay Per Click Marketing : PPC is another search engine marketing strategy that utilizes contextual advertising; based on a search query or the content of a web page, ads will appear. Social Media Marketing : In social media marketing, you are tasked with leveraging the social space through its media to market your products.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

This 17 year old girl claimed she wasn’t allowed on the social networks, but knew how to navigate them with uncanny skill for a newbie, and knew when to fold up shop when the consensus had turned against her. i’m beginning to think that a concerted effort needs to be done to notify the copyright holders of the stolen content.

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Social Media StumbleUpon Communities MySpace 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Add Content to Your Custom Tab If you go view your Page now, you’ll notice when you click the “>>&# tab there is now an “FBML&# option in the drop-down. Let’s add some content to it. To add content, click on “Edit Page&# again on the left below your Page image. Now you need to customize it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The bottom line: If your content is good enough to stand on its own, it will be Retweeted. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. Social news is about reciprocal relationships.

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

You can’t automate social media , and while it’s very compelling to do so, if you’re a big brand, we can tell. However, who really just builds up a Twitter or Facebook and lets it churn out content on a daily basis without any oversight or manual interaction? That’s not how social media works. Great job!!

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Why feed counts mean absolutely nothing (and never really have). A lot has changed from the days when Digg was the only share button people used on their posts and – besides going directly to a website – RSS was the most common way to consume blog content. The magazine industry is crumbling. They really don’t.

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Sites Industry Blogger News 96

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

WordPress SEO: Definitive Guide to High Rankings for Your Blog is written by WordPress optimization expert and coder Joost de Valk and gives you some great tips on how to use WordPress in a search engine friendly fashion. What is the Definition of SEO? How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Someone, though, recognized the content and reported it to the original blogger who rallied his audience and successfully had this original blogger amend his document. Despite the fact that he had over 50,000 Twitter followers, his entire feed was a broadcast. However, following their home Twitter feed was really difficult.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I’m a content/podcast producer, so I’ve spent literally hundreds of hours talking and writing about the types of movies (and other products) I love. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds. It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. Information overload is a real problem for many web users, and one way to cope with it is to filter your RSS feeds so you only see what you want to see. RWW Daily by Email.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. Anyway — when it comes to Facebook, point #1 is definitely a huge conflict with #12. So while people are clueless, Facebook is definitely more and more at fault because they are not educating these users.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I’ve heard about dozens of businesses who created Facebook Pages, pouring their hearts and souls and development hours into crafting content and attracting new fans, only to find out that their account disappears without a trace. After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds.

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