Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change merely starts with Twitter; the conversations are then moved offline and interested parties are sent the phone number to the organization’s headquarters so that they can discuss how to help with one of the staff members in terms of getting involved to make a difference. Yes “Social media is all about making changes&#.

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Social Media Case Study MySpace Yahoo 172

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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. 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.

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Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Humans can relate to emotional content, and laughable content is always golden. If you’re in need of viral content , you don’t have to look much farther than videos that teach users how to do something. There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning.

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Whatever your motivation, your blog needs traffic to achieve those goals, and to do that, you need great content. Get Your Blog Read and Followed When it comes to the internet, there’s one golden rule that stands head and shoulders above the others: content is king. No one cares how smart you are, or how smart you think you are.

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Once funding goes in, it almost always follows that the site creators distance themselves from the “politics&# of the site (especially with a growing community), instead hiring “worker bees&# to partake in conversation (if at all) on their behalf. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Digg MySpace Reddit Yahoo 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

While some argue that StumbleUpon traffic is targeted, the broad nature of content categories and misclassification of content means this is rarely the case. As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. It is all relative to the content and the site.

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, if you know them and can actually have lengthy conversations with the person day after day, that obviously means your relationship has made it to the next level.) Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Truth be told, perhaps they do. But in general, there is no implicit invitation.

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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity. Good content and copywriting will win over new readers and customers. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Yahoo Conference Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. Deliver smart, innovative, to the point content that provides genuine value. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Social Media Influencer MySpace Consultant 229

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

Tagged as: 4x4 , 4x4 meme , meme , social media { 7 comments… read them below or add one } Chris Kieff March 31, 2008 at 8:59 am Tamar, Thanks for the link love and the response. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.

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Meme Blogger StumbleUpon MySpace 100

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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Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. So marking a conversation or message, to be found easily later, should be one of the first features implemented. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.

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Microblogging API MySpace Yahoo 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Everything is multi: multi-screens, multi-channeled, multi-conversations, and multitasking. But before I engaged in so many social media spheres, I certainly wasn’t as well-rounded as I was prior to my participation.

Meme 100

Meme Digg Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. One of the more recent fiascoes occurred when Sprint forcibly disconnected service for 1,200 customers.

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Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

It will be a conversation starter! Reply mark April 3, 2008 at 5:46 pm Hey Tamar – new site looks great! Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Reply Jake Matthews April 3, 2008 at 5:42 am very nice Tamar – really like your logo in your post replies. All rights reserved.

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MySpace RSS Yahoo StumbleUpon 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I became a lot more conservative in choosing my friends in Facebook (as broken down in the chart below) with a few exceptions because Facebook is starting to blend in with my social media enthusiasm. The Irony: MySpace Okay, so in my previous paragraph, I mention that you should be an early adopter of social networks.

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MySpace LinkedIn Facebook Social Networking 114

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

It’s about building relationships, spending time on the networks, and having regular conversations with the people you want to connect with who you will value for more than just helping move the needle and getting to the bottom line. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

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. In fact, most of them had already left.

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Digg Sites News API 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Part of this, for him, revolves around being approachable and building up relationships privately via direct messages or on the Twitter stream.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. It doesn’t do us any good if the content being passed around is garbage. In the case of newspapers, a few people picked what was front page news.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. You need to consistently work at building relationships and not let them be. And you need to be consistently monitoring the space.

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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant 221

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

That’s why you need to paint a picture that’s more meaningful and encompasses what “social media&# as a label really is. Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Customer Service.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Based on my findings, Problogger started in 2004, Copyblogger started in 2006, Daily Blog Tips started in 2006, Steve Pavlina’s Blog started in 2004, and Entrepreneur’s Journey started in 2004. Here at Kontera, we’re very focused on our ads becoming integrated with your content, not a distraction from it.

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Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

A Travelmole source, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “It is clear that RCCL’s Royal Champions initiative has created an uneven playing field, not only on the Cruise Critic bulletin boards, but, quite possibly, in regard to user reviews in their main content area. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream. Therefore, I suppose the nested conversations and time-line layout make complete sense. and social media sphere.

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So if you’re spending $200 a day on your Social Media campaign, and let’s say your product is $100 worth per item, let’s say you’re bringing 100 people to the website, and your Google Analytics shows a 15% conversion rate to a warm lead, and a 15% conversion rate of warm leads to paying clients purchasing one item.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Does social media convert?

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

This is especially true as the FTC plans to police sponsored conversations. Brand evangelism programs fall under the jurisdiction of sponsored content. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. They are cheerleaders on the sidelines and they’re rooting for your team.

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Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

I really try to get to know these people who I converse with online. Reply Nick Stamoulis August 12, 2009 at 9:38 am The power of social marketing has surprised many. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s great that you guys met up – and very coincidental too!

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Yahoo StumbleUpon MySpace Meeting 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In short, you’ll need to install the Static FBML app, add a custom tab, and learn the language, which is very similar to HTML, to create content that is appealing to your customers and prospects. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

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?

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Nobody wants to have to to a minority that seems to be unhappy with the content you’ve spent hours upon hours writing. Social media experts are no longer social media experts. SEO and social media are two entirely different things. Social media marketing, too, is now a reality for many. Here’s why.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

A few high profile folks have even called my readers lucky for getting great content without any up front monetary commitment. (If If you want great beginner social media content behind a pay wall, check out Exploring Social Media , a project I am working on with Jason Falls and some other great minds.)

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267