Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s why songs like this translate to tweets , remixes , and playoff game invitations. It’s why I laugh every time at this BBC Guy Kewney Goma mix-up (and even posted about it once before). Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Given that LinkedIn and Facebook are “social networks,&# whereas FriendFeed and Twitter are more of microblogging platforms, if I’m going to choose a social network to defer the relationship to, it’s going to be LinkedIn. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. It’s not. People use both networks as a free-for-all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

When I first signed onto Twitter in 2006, I used to manually review every single incoming email notifying me of new Twitter followers just to see if there was a synergy between our accounts. Who was he, I wondered, and was he credible? So I hopped on Twitter for a sneak into his daily activities. Will you even pay attention to your home feed?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Is that even professional? Think about redoing your Twitter strategy if all you plan on doing is broadcasting. I’m sure that if iTunes actually included the customer in its feed, and if other Apple departments followed suit, there would be a whole lot more followers and satisfied customers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site. It’s certainly not unthinkable that someone will import your RSS feed into another website without ever gaining any permission to do so. I think the big issue here is more about sites with snippets of text. Again, I kid.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. 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. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

What can you learn about me? Their schedules : Are your friends voting up a story on Mixx at 4 in the morning? Perhaps they’re insomniacs. You never know until you check out their feed. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados? FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles. And that was the UK. Integration Audit Am I integrating my social media profiles? Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? Just not like this.) There are plugins that can help you do that. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’ll admit (a little secret of mine) that I initially befriended a few folks I admired on TV (specifically, 2006-2007′s Beauty and the Geek) but since I have no personal connection to the guys, I deleted the non-genuine contacts. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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DECEMBER 3, 2007

There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. (Even though countless among us are posting on this topic daily.) Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading! Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. Didn’t Enron teach us anything?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Face it (no pun intended), Facebook is the ultimate stalker tool. While the preceding video might be disturbing, single young men apparently have it very easy with Facebook.) In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. My friends, do you respect media snackers? Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. 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. Effective use means more business. Engagement. It’s not enough to broadcast. “Look at this!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Although I’m not a big fan of microblogging, I will admit that it has becoming more and more useful as the pace of technology and business becomes faster. I read this article about microblogging [link] , and although it has not made a fan out of me, it has opened my eyes to its wonders. Hope that makes sense.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. We know our DNA isn’t set to develop everything and a lot of people out there are more talented.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. My specific highlight here was that most of it was automated during this time, and more specifically, the items that were *NOT* automated were mentions of “happy birthday&# and then some. It did look like a lot of the content was automated, and you’re entitled. If I can do it, so can you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. I contacted the agency handling Justin Nozuka yesterday – fans were spammed for over 15 hrs with the same message both on Facbook and Twitter, with dates for a gig that had already happened and many were so cheesed off like me, that they hid his feed. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. So maybe some SU self-promoters consider someone subscribing to them on StumbleUpon similar to being subscribed to via RSS, email, etc. – they believe the subscriber subscribes because they do want updates from that person’s site, just like a RSS feed would deliver only updates from their site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. &# question a hundred times. Thankfully, now I am.) It can’t be fed, it can’t clean up after itself, and it definitely won’t like you if you don’t burp it. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Case in point: in 2006, Facebook removed the only Facebook friend I had who wasn’t a real person. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. 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. That person was St.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The issue, of course, is engagement. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. The more you engage your community, which could be as simple as asking your followers how they are going to be spending Mother’s Day or sharing a link of interest to your followers, the more visible your page is to your Fan’s friends. After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

This is especially important if someone on Twitter needs to reach you but can’t direct message you since you’re not following them!? If they’re making the effort, it’s probably because they really want to talk to you. Was it something you said? Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business : This recent post on Copyblogger quotes how many businesses has found success with the microblogging service. Why Twitter Matters : BusinessWeek cites examples of why the microblogging website is a must-use for everyone. feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. To better level the playing field and turn control of the content back over to the community and not the elite inner circle is a good thing. Just because I don’t sit on RSS feeds and submit news content all day and only play on Digg when I can doesn’t mean I don’t care more for the community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook needs to improve upon itself instead of innovating with uselessness. Maybe it’s time to be attentive to these concerns and not shut them out. After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds. Facebook, when you open to everyone, you need to have ears and listen to everyone. Hear me out. Click hide.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Be sure this is something that describes yourself and your brand, and that you think others will be searching for. 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. I’m going to be busy this a.m.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Doing Google searches to expand my knowledge I had been finding TONS of SEO/SEM info out there, but alot of it is PLR stuff from 2006-ish!…so © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. There are those of us that dive into Social Media (and SEO to a degree) as a hobby – that is, for FUN. …so thanks for showing the foundational parts.

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APRIL 8, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Reply Tamar Weinberg April 9, 2010 at 12:37 am Hi Loka, thanks for your comments. I agree that building a brand name is really important, but “fake&# followers who don’t even engage (or even sign on or follow their home feed, for that matter) are not going to help boost your brand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Reply David Eaves February 2, 2008 at 12:10 pm I do not believe that there is any algo, digg staff just choose the stories that they like. Since the changes smaller sites have totally been discriminated against. You may as well just subscribe to about 50 feeds and you have digg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. (cobbler’s children syndrome) what you say about credibility, passion, provoking thought and attention to detail really moves me. you practice what you preach while maintaining a very personal touch when you write. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Because competition is not as pathological as you think. How you use social media depends on your frame of mind. If you are just in it to boost your ego, you’ll look for ways to feed that even if there isn’t a user-ranking list. The kind of digg user you portray in your article is not the norm.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. There are lots of people and companies that have secured my attention because they provide regular value. One example is Mint and the insights they offer via their blog. I think that it is really a case-by-case basis. And show that you understand more than just the post but the conversations around it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. She has contacted Dave, and she has been copying his correspondence into messages to me, in which she is basically advocating for giving money to LillyBarb, because lots of people are uninsured, and she has real needs, etc etc. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Reply Earn Money Online On The Internet At Home January 30, 2008 at 8:53 am I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing (tags: SEO web2.0 © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

© 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. 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).

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