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. How you use social media depends on your frame of mind.

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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. As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Linkedin lead generation requires commitment to answering and asking questions on Groups/Answers, taking advantage of the deep searches, and connecting directly with those around you in your network. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed. This is basic News Feed Optimization. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. Crowdsourcing takes tasks traditionally done by a single person or small groups of people, and farms them out to a global workforce. social networking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships. I also consider bloggers who have forged real-life relationships with me to have connected via social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

He talks of a group on Facebook that has a goal to build an organization that has enough political clout to achieve ends to end poverty. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. Zuckerberg : It was a group decision, really.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I have a team of several community managers who work for me and we try to balance this several ways: News can be posted on our forums by individual community team members, but is posted from “Turbine Community&# if it’s a blog post on our bespoke social networks (my.ddo.com and my.lotro.com). © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. You may find people who are surfing outside your social circle who might be potentially interested in your products. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. You never know who you might meet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

There are actually a few websites I don’t subscribe to via RSS because I subscribe to the blogger on Stumble and actually rely on getting their new post via the share. So maybe some SU self-promoters consider someone subscribing to them on StumbleUpon similar to being subscribed to via RSS, email, etc. I think you’re right.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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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. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. There are those of us that dive into Social Media (and SEO to a degree) as a hobby – that is, for FUN.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I learn about these new blogs mostly outside the “social&# space because they do the hand-holding from start to finish, and as such, they often cater to a wider audience. This is the kind of content that spreads beyond the typical blog reader to an entirely different group of people. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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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. People hustling others on social media for a couple of dollars.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. It can be a pain to have to re-create a new Page and re-establish months of work building your Page if you get it wrong early on. Seems to work well.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Not to mention that the explosion of SM came so quickly to business reality and they became so hungry for understanding and getting up to speed that the demand for a speaker and the sheer ego behind being asked to speak for a group opened up a market for fees far below where an agent can make any money. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

I’ve briefly touched upon a huge pet peeve of mine in my social media etiquette handbook , saying that you should use your real name and not represent anyone (or anything) else. Case in point: in 2006, Facebook removed the only Facebook friend I had who wasn’t a real person. That person was St. Heck, most of you get it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Their social media efforts were spearheaded by a guy who looks like a nice dude, but after studying his personal Twitter feed, it was almost the same kind of thing: the process was almost wholly automated. Who was he, I wondered, and was he credible? So I hopped on Twitter for a sneak into his daily activities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here’s how I do it : I read and review hundreds — thousands — of articles yearly, on all Internet Marketing topics from SEO to social media to general entrepreneurship (new for 2010!), also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. or the desire to establish a new group. The Apple Students Group is a great way for Apple to market its own products, and over the summer, it offered free songs through iTunes. If I upload a group photo, I can tag the people in the photo to identify them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Louis Gray Louis Gray is a prominent technology blogger and Managing Director of New Media at Paladin Advisors Group. Makes my day!

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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. There’s no order to the posts; I’ve used my bookmarks and a variety of social sites and peer recommendations to create this list. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. There are many ways to filter news feeds from your favorite sources, including passively by relying on meme trackers like Techmeme or social news services such as Google Readers shared items. 26 Comments.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds. It’s a bit like group therapy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Kevin says that earlier this evening, he hosted a focus group at Digg to beta test some new features to be rolled out in the future. Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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