Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

In every industry, there are existing conversations going on. A social media strategy will allow you to get in on these conversations so that you can offer solutions, push buttons, and get people talking. It introduces your brand Is your company new? Or has it been around awhile but hasn’t been using social media?

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JUNE 12, 2010

Covering: Traditional / mainstream websites, Professional networks like LinkedIn, Social networks like Facebook and others. Covering: Traditional / mainstream websites, Professional networks like LinkedIn, Social networks like Facebook and others. Independent discussion forums based on categories and general interest by profession.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Low Return Industries These types of businesses tend to take a long time to create return in social media.

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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. The result is bad publicity, regardless of the benefits you believe it yields for the short term. In an article about perception, it just seems out of place. “Chicken.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Reply Cijo Abraham Mani October 7, 2010 at 11:15 am I like your point about Social Media Advertising. Social Media is all about how effectively you build conversation and become part of an ongoing conversation. To get social media success you should first gain the trust of your followers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. The admin (Professor Macdonald) / moderator (students teaching the class on a given day) create categories of conversation, which are analogous to deciding on forum names/topics and sticky threads. (In Non-sticky threads can be pushed down by threads with newer comments.)

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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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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. Do you mean conversions? It’s why the future looks exciting thanks to movies, and why we all feel great when discovering that through the story of man and animal, love is never truly forgotten. It also depends on goals.

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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.) Truth be told, perhaps they do. However, there are still boundaries that should never be crossed, no matter how approachable someone seems. (Of

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

I have NO PROBLEM with conversations happening offsite. I’ve learned to adapt by integrating those conversations on my blog wherever I can (as you can see, Richard Cunningham just posted on Louis’s site and you can read it here. You can also see FriendFeed posts below).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It’s awesome people can promote knowing trick in the book about facebook and twitter, but do they know how to read the subtext of a situation and really get in someones world in a conversation. It’s something I promote all the time being in an all around IT support field. Shaw, 1856-1950 Jose G.

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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.

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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. Threaded Comments – one of the largest feature missing out on Twitter was the ability to actually respond to someone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. In the long run, you can achieve phenomenal readership and conversion. That will not only hurt the conversion but also gaming the search engine which will not survive in the long term SEO game.

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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! Reply Jake Matthews April 3, 2008 at 5:42 am very nice Tamar – really like your logo in your post replies. Reply Andy Beal April 3, 2008 at 8:20 am Tamar – totally keep the potty-squatting little dude.

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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. It’s not always about numbers and it’s not about sporadic participation.

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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. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Companies are still challenged with whether they *should* get involved in the conversation. I don’t they had much of a choice though. Reply Tamar Weinberg July 21, 2009 at 9:21 am In a way, Nick, they certainly could have. Many people think that if they involve themselves once, they’re essentially sucked in forever.

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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. 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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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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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.&# I really found the genuine ability to connect with people valuable and we have continued to use this as just one of many pieces of the funnel hopefully driving people to be more involved with us outside of just booking a room.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re not following the conversation regularly, your customers might just flock to your competitors instead. You need to consistently work at building relationships and not let them be. And you need to be consistently monitoring the space. Silence can hurt you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2007. 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 2006.

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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. Be responsive.

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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. I’d like to put in my $0.02 about what happens next. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

The date was December 12, 2007, and I was excited to hear that Jonathan was a New Yorker like me. 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. Meet them, if I may. That was a good post!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

This is especially true as the FTC plans to police sponsored conversations. In 2007, Royal Caribbean ran a campaign called Royal Champions, inviting 50 of its most vocal ardent supporters on cruises and to face-to-face meetings with company executives. They are cheerleaders on the sidelines and they’re rooting for your team.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

In fact, I noticed substantial changes in my friendships on Facebook, so I decided to update the Facebook charts I prepared in 2007 to provide an updated look of my friendship breakdown for January 2010. Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below.

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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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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. Blogs do just that.

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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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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions. People Want More If the chart above is any indication, it’s without question that social media has grown by leaps and bounds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue. By and large, the vast majority of people who see Kontera ads really want to see our ads, and our interested in the products of our premium advertisers. I don’t know what to say.

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