Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve learned that Roger Smith Hotel is a boutique hotel with event rooms suitable for parties and workshops. We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s located central to Midtown Manhattan (Grand Central Terminal, perfect for out-of-towners!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Many of them (more than half) were individuals I met at search conferences, but other conferences (SXSW, events that Mashable was involved in in the capacity of host or media sponsor, and the first IZEAFest) also represented my Industry connections. Some of these friends have mutual real-life friends (outside typical industry connections).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. You may find opportunities to host real life events, be them at conferences or whatever else. Why not invite your Facebook fans to a special event at your venue? Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. Way too oldschool.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. These posts are not in response to newsworthy events, nor are they displayed in any particular order. FriendFeed Groups – The Fast Track to Content and Community (Knowthenetwork.com): How can you use FriendFeed groups to your advantage? Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

This is probably one of the areas that the Community Managers Group should begin to focus on! Editorial content (developer diaries, tutorials, etc) -In-game live event support -Real-life event organization and support, e.g. trade shows, player gatherings, etc. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Here we go with the highly-talked-about keynote presentation at South by Southwest… Just like an Apple keynote, they tried to build up some serious momentum for this event. Personally, having sat next to Daniel Terdiman of CNet, I heard (and understand) both perspectives after having liveblogged the entire event.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Personal accounts of everyday events is what made Dooce and the Bloggess so successful. This is the kind of content that spreads beyond the typical blog reader to an entirely different group of people. Go to local or national face-to-face events to meet other bloggers. How does one do this?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

We may never know why someone who (by her own claims on Google Groups) was pulling in $5,000/month via counseling fees, affiliate marketing programs, and essays posted to paying websites such as Squidoo, would risk it all in a scheme that only raised a few hundred dollars. There is a fine line in all of this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Curious people are driven to push into new group and solve problems in new ways. A regular marketer is usually product minded and aims products (or content, or whatever) at target groups, while a social media marketer is consumer minded and matches groups of people with products.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Somehow, individuals forget along the way that costs accrue when considering the venue, food, exhibit hall, and the staff required on hand to run the event smoothly. And featured it in a big presentation I did at an event here, too — so, trying to give back! It’s an excellent book — thank you for writing it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. I love it when Barry spots those golden nuggets — like when the SEO guy goes to a Google Groups thread and so does the site owner in another thread.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

What are the most popular sites in these age groups? Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview (Sugarrae): Rae interviews Rand Fishkin, Todd Malicoat, Roger Montti, Eric Ward, (and herself), and provides a really cool interview about link development. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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JUNE 23, 2010

Case in point: in 2006, Facebook removed the only Facebook friend I had who wasn’t a real person. Groups : Facebook Groups still exist, but I wouldn’t encourage using them unless you’re looking to maintain a fully closed and private community in the confines of the service. That person was St.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

No one wants to subscribe to another tech blog or meet someone at a networking event that does the same thing as someone else. Whether it’s Tamar’s blog, a Facebook fan page, a LinkedIn group, a Ning network, a local association, etc. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Another point I appreciate is commenting on blogs.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

Reply Christine Taylor December 1, 2009 at 10:22 pm I wasn’t able to get to the ( [link] ) Reply Tamar Weinberg December 1, 2009 at 10:25 pm Christine, it works here – did you go to [link] It will immediately capitalize itself and show you an upcoming event. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. There’s no way to do it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. In a specific case, I manage a few LinkedIn groups so my email address is far more visible on the site than I’d like. Many call this spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Like last year, I’ve grouped them into different categories and written short descriptions on each post. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business : This recent post on Copyblogger quotes how many businesses has found success with the microblogging service. Now you can understand how to leverage them.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Louis Gray Louis Gray is a prominent technology blogger and Managing Director of New Media at Paladin Advisors Group. This is one of the reasons group interviews and such are so popular…they allow you to select the people you hope to gain attention from WHILE giving those people a reason to want to talk about you. Makes my day!

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APRIL 28, 2010

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. It’s a bit like group therapy. Yup, it’s true. It felt good to be exclusive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Why are they continually treated as a one or the other skill set when in reality both groups would be best served understanding what is on the other side of the fence? I also appreciate your characterization of both as ongoing processes (social media is not an event). I think there are plenty of people who do both.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

I now present you with … Infraction #2 : On October 31st, my friend Erik created a Facebook group for Digg fans which was inspired by the extremely popular (3241 Diggs as of this writing) Digg story about how Stephen Colbert’s Facebook group was the fastest growing ever. The URL now is dead.

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