Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Reply Tamar Weinberg September 26, 2007 at 12:17 am My primary complaint with Reddit is that while it’s not slow at all compared to other social news sites, the interface is very primitive. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Your post offers good suggestions – far better than starting a support group. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Thanks Deb! Answers Yahoo!

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JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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MAY 12, 2010

For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Of course I do.

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AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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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. In fact, most of them had already left.

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MARCH 12, 2009

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new.

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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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MARCH 4, 2010

We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Drive Leads through LinkedIn. Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? You just need to look.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. And that’s the key differentiator of social media: we, the consumers, can have one loud voice, that companies and other people listen to.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. LinkedIn 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job (How to Change the World): Thought you couldn’t get a job on LinkedIn? 7 Ways to Get More Out of LinkedIn (Mashable): Taking advantage of the professional network isn’t hard. Here’s my list for 2008. Here’s 2007. Think again!

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The latter group is pretty hard to help and I’m not inclined to try. I have started a group on Facebook called Warning! Reply KJR December 13, 2008 at 9:52 am Sorry that Facebook Group should be: Warning! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Reply Gabe H.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? LinkedIn is the likely choice because it is a “set it and forget it&# social network.

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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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MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. 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. Reply Tamar Weinberg May 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm Tove, I still would never recommend groups. It’s an irritant.

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JUNE 30, 2008

It’s a social site, but we’re talking about microblogging now. Saw this brought up on a Linkedin question, and I’ll put it on ecademy for them to see it also. It makes sense, it’s easy to navigate, you can find people, groups (cliques), you can search, it’s the hidden secret of microblogging/social networking!

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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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JULY 8, 2008

Curiosity – most social media marketers that I know are constantly asking ‘what if… ’ type questions. Curious people are driven to push into new group and solve problems in new ways. Perseverance – building a social media presence doesn’t happen over night.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Gaming CMs probably have much to teach new community managers about engagement and, even more importantly, customer retention (particularly to subscription-based games). This is probably one of the areas that the Community Managers Group should begin to focus on! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

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JULY 29, 2008

We organise language courses worldwide for businesses, one-to-one students, and small groups. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

When members repeatedly submit content from a single site or a small group of sites, it undermines StumbleUpon’s mission of discovering and sharing Web sites with others. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

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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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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 was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. Zuckerberg : It was a group decision, really. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Answers Yahoo! All rights reserved.

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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. Rather recently, she told me that she had enough and was going to quit. Gah, I wish I knew the link.)

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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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JUNE 3, 2009

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. My grandparents are snowbirds: they reside in Florida (near my folks) for half of the year and in New York (where our family originally hails from) for the other half.

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MAY 19, 2008

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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Quick Jump: Social Media: Getting Started, Implementation, and Execution. Social Media (and Beyond): Small Business. Social Media: Hiring and in the Workplace. Social Media: Measurement and ROI. Social Media: General. Leveraging Other Social Media Sites. Should we call this LIO (LinkedIn Optimization)?

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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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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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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. If you’re looking to establish a professional relationship with someone, consider LinkedIn. LinkedIn is still seen as the more professional of the two.

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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. Use LinkedIn. That person was St.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Finally, share these articles using your social media tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and possibly cite them in your presentations and within blog posts. Instead, join the top four networks: Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Now, I’ve focused my branding efforts on Twitter, LinkedIn, and blogging.

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