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How Embedded Social News Grew My Content, Traffic, and Engagement, and Saves Me Time [Case Study]

ProBlogger

We update our blog regularly—with everything from live performances and backstage interviews, to commentary on upcoming album releases and the latest guitar gear. Our research led us to new social platform, ROCKZi. A social news platform. Do you use a social news tool on your blog?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Social Events (e.g.,

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A Review of the New Digg Images and Universal Taxonomy.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Are you submitting a news story? If it’s a news story, you can even choose a thumbnail (that will appear on the upcoming list or on the top right corner) if Digg is able to locate one for you. Here are four news stories on Digg’s upcoming list with and without thumbnails. Is it an image? Is it a video?

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These are the users who are familiar with networking on Digg (finding friends with similar interests) and checking not only the front page of Digg but the Upcoming page as well (which is far more important). This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall.

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How friendfeed Can Teach You About Your Friends

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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.

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Announcing the Newest Social Media Prince

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Hopefully we’ll see little David on social media sites in the upcoming months. And in case you are wondering, my good friend Sam has set up a gift drive , a totally unexpected but appreciated gesture. Thanks Sam — and thanks to those who have contributed!

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Techipedia Redesign is Finally Live

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I know there will still be some tweaks that will be made in the upcoming days, but I’d love your feedback on the new design. Second, the backend coding, for the most part, was handled by web developer Cesar Serna , who also did a fantastic job. Thank you so much for your hard work!

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