The Realtime Report

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Last week’s events revealed several interesting new statistics about Twitter, including information about mobile use and brand engagement on the platform. The highlights: 60% of Twitter users access the microblogging platform on mobile devices. promoted tweets have an engagement rate of between 1% and 3%. days ( CNET ).

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

The flip side to that is that not everything gleaned from monitoring social media activity is accurate or reliable. A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. Newspaper journalists were the most likely to report using no social media tools (21%). What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Proactive Report

MAY 7, 2014

Key Findings: 78% of US journalists check social media for breaking news. use social media to find sources for stories. journalists said that social media are very important to their work. spent between 30 to 60 minutes every day on social networking sites. use it to find additional information about a topic.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks. Social Events (e.g.,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. The issue, of course, is engagement. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. It’s like any other news medium.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

5 Ways to Begin Building Your Personal Learning Network 1.0 1-Join a professional social network. technology) and EduBlogger World (for education bloggers) and I launched a social network called iTeach/iLearn (enhancing instruction with tech across the content areas). Join My Social Networks.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 29, 2010

As mentioned, Hoist is a browser-based working platform build on the idea of social networks. From an organizational perspective, the platform makes it possible to manage diverse flows of information and process and secure these into knowledge, available to all employees at any time.

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Not only are they helpful in ensuring that everyone in a company understands what is expected of them, they can also be a way to empower your employees to feel comfortable and confident in engaging with customers or clients via social media. List of Social Media Guidelines and Policies: Company Name Document Name Link.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 26, 2010

This also confirms the fact that it is crucial to send out a message of clarity – and also a different and memorable opening and closing part, as mentioned before in this blog post. Do you have some other important points to add?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Here’s a feature’s list, broken down by features that each service already contains: Plurk: Karma – an awesome feature that keeps people engaged, and gives users a goal. All this communication and web socializing takes too much time (even if it is fun). It’s something to work towards, and opens up other options.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

A while back, Todd Malicoat wrote about linkbaiting hooks …however, each and everything he says in his post can be mapped into the social media sphere. To increase the odds of meaningful conversational engagement, the initial dialogue should be ultra-resourceful…or humorous…or controversial…or valuable…or… How to do this successfully?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. As a localization expert involved in Social Media Marketing I often observe real culture clashes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

I guess it’s assumed in social spaces that when s/he initiates the friend request, you can comment on anything on their Facebook wall or tweet back at them about something personal or even comment on a photo. If either parter is using social media professionally and you’re not, respect their need to do so and keep your distance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

By engaging the wedding party and having them dance down the aisle spontaneously, people watching the resultant video really felt the momentum. Genuine You don’t always have to engage in expensive video production to promote your wares, nor as the marketer do you have to create the video yourself. They got excited. They laughed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Introduce yourself, engage in the community, and let them learn about your brand. You need to have a thoroughly compelling social piece. Those who engage in social media have an inherent thirst for interesting information. The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. Our primary goal when developing a social marketing strategy should be to establish conversation parameters.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. If you’re considering social media marketing for your business, no matter what size your company is, listening and engagement is key. Reply Louis Halpern December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am Brands should engage with their audience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Your social media pages offer places where people interested in your ideas are already gathered, so you don’t have to take a “hit or miss&# approach to beta testing. It showcases your company’s personality Engaging through social media lends itself to more personal contact with customers.

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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

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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

In that way, I wish Quizlet, an online application to make learning vocabulary fun and engaging, was available back when I needed it. I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Certain niches are more likely to see greater returns from social media. High Return Industries These industries tend to see high returns in social media marketing, quickly. Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories.

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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.

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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

The Way of the Web

MAY 25, 2011

And at the same time, everyone will love and share the service because they’re involved, engaged and that’s what social networks are all about.

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Social Media Strategist Develop comprehensive social media strategy, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace), blogs, video, stand-alone social newtorks, social commerce and more.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Post-Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, interest in other social networking sites has spiked significantly. Some names may be familiar to you while others are completely new, but a quick search on Google Trends reveals that old or new, people are looking for the next, best microblogging platform.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The internet and technology ownership has changed everything: digital TV, mobile phones, iPods, weblogs, instant messaging, [and] social networking. But before I engaged in so many social media spheres, I certainly wasn’t as well-rounded as I was prior to my participation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few months ago, Brian Solis talked about an off-topic pitch about a social network for plants. Somehow, I think nature lovers would be more interested in socializing shrubbery.) I just wrote several posts on Brian’s PPBPR as well as moderating a Social Media Book Discussion on it. I’m sure you can relate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. izmantot soci?los

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

This moment essentially marked the beginning of social media influencers. Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. Try it free today.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Therefore, the only combination of the two that would appear to work is to practice sharing on the web and as Tamar suggests – engage. It would appear then that those who profess to expertise in social activities, by default, are not.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. Superlist of What Not To Do In Social Meda From our own collection of casestudies and articles about what not to do in social media- mistakes, blunders, failures, etc.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. Superlist of What Not To Do In Social Meda From our own collection of casestudies and articles about what not to do in social media- mistakes, blunders, failures, etc.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Social media guidelines are also different from community guidelines, which set the rules for public engagement with your account or group. Take Hootsuite Academy’s free course Implementing Social Media Governance within your Organization. Share your company’s social media strategy. Educate on social media best practices.

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