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Socialympics: How Social Media and Blogging Has Boosted Sports Media

Convince & Convert

Sports have been played, enjoyed by spectators and covered by the media since well before the advent of smartphones and social media. But it’s no question that the development of social platforms has changed how we play, enjoy and cover sports. Twitter is the new sports ticker. Facebook is the new hub for fans.

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3 Angles to Create Magnetic Content with the Triangle of Relevance

Convince & Convert

major sporting events, current events, trending news and more. Include holidays, major TV or sporting events, movie release dates, school breaks, etc.). Whole Foods Market. This Little Piggy Went to Whole Foods Market. Twitter, Facebook, or microblogging posts (Vary to re-purpose content). of your target audience.

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Justifying Social Media to the Big Wigs

Social Media Strategery

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. 101 , buy-in , marketing , social media , web 2.0 For example, Aberdeen recently published a report on Sales 2.0

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

While this isn’t anything substantially groundbreaking, I propose this question: why is it that many marketers are not embracing the technology earlier? Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here.

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

His blog is full with regular small byte-sized updates about U2, sports, movies, and more. And Carl definitely is smart; affiliate marketing is a hard niche! She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable. Sean McGee is a huge U2 fan like his dad (yes, that Matt ).

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7 Truths About Social Media Marketing

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Why You Should Have a Secondary Twitter Account

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

My only questionable tweets are actually about business projects (yes, I am NameCheap’s new marketing consultant as Michelle Greer moves onto bigger and better things ). How does this relate to real life marketing? A good marketer knows that marketing outside your network is important. not so much sports fans).

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