Ignite Social Media

APRIL 30, 2018

What we learned from that experience is that many people in Congress do not understand how social networks work and that Facebook has a lot of action items to follow up on. Additionally, bots tweeted 89% of links to popular news and story aggregation sites. That should catch you up on all of the latest platform news.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Social media? Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot.

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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

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. That’s what’s new: a significant leap in efficiency. Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. The community had to react.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

They will have to fix this or risk really turning off their core community and fall into the, "oh, no, another annoying spammy tool" category. social networking. social media. social news. social networks. aggregators. That is easily fixable by LinkedIn. POPULAR TAGS. semantic web. mobile web.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

He recently told me that every week they have a mini-presentation on one aspect of social media (past topics included ethics, social networks, and social bookmarking). Since then, the students have formed their own vibrant community on Twitter. social networking. social media. social news.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In 2006, social media was building steam in the United States. With the rise of Facebook’s popularity, the launch of Twitter, and the surge of influence from social news sites like Digg, social media looked to be a great breeding ground for marketers to make their mark. And make their marks they did.

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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

MAY 19, 2008

My first social “network&# was also on AOL. I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. I’ve been on livejournal, wow, since 98 or 99?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Here are some rules of thumb to consider when considering a social media marketing strategy: Engagement is Everything I can’t stress it enough: social media marketing is a social activity! The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement. Great post.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

On the blog post to which I alluded in the first paragraph, I aggregated the most popular photos posted on Ben’s blog in the last decade and performed some social outreach on the news aggregators. The new Digg allows you to edit a headline before submitting it to the community. Rewriting Headlines.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Now that Friendfeed aggregates every social site you use (for the most part — they’re still missing some ), anyone can see that you’ve just thumbed up that article on how to find porn behind a WebSense firewall even though you may have done it as a favor to your friend. In one case because of privacy issues.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The initial sentiment was highly negative , and most concluded that the algorithm will penalize users who care much about the community and use it regularly. The math takes time to aggregate.&# (Lesson: Stop noticing things the second that they happen.) Both Kevin and Jay say that we should give the community the benefit of the doubt.

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