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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

There’s no effort in adding thousands of email addresses to an address book, performing a mail merge, and sending off a generic press release. Further, it’s “simply unrealistic&# for him to tailor his press releases to bloggers, and it’s “close minded&# for bloggers to expect this of him.

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What Kind of Online Community Do You Have Behind Your Firewall?

Social Media Strategery

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll The Social Media/Web 2.0/New "We'll have our own Wikipedia!" The Intranet development team.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. If you take a look at any one of their four accounts , you’ll notice one thing: they’re not using Twitter to converse but to broadcast.

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Twitter is a combo of “sound bite&# succinct press releases as well as a fantastic research tool. December 20, 2007 at 12:28 pm toodoo » ????? ????? Great article.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. .&# Touted as more of a “content discovery&# engine than a news engine, StumbleUpon lets you discover news, but not necessarily in a timely manner. Sorry, guys, it’s five years later. That’s not so much “news&# anymore.

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. If the post does not allow commenting, send a relevant press release to the editorial team showing that you have done your research and understand what the blog is looking for.

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Social Media Strategy from A to Z » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I’ve seen press releases, non-English releases, and everything else in between. Three years ago, I wrote that owning your community requires understanding of who they are. People love the prospect of submitting to Digg, for example, and some immediately submit the spammiest articles to the service.