Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

What functionalities do you think WordPress, vBulletin, and other common platforms need to be able to better develop communities? What annoys you about WordPress, vBulletin, and these platforms? How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

The best thing about social media is that the conversations are natural occurring real time so the methods like survey lag far behind in providing the right information, bet we don’t need more to understand a consumer as we can measure sentiments now.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

The site does not resolve on smart-phone browsers, and if they sell products online, their e-commerce platform has no social functionality (no review functionality, no commenting functionality, etc). In general, there are no visible calls to action to engage with social channels and little if any interactive assets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

I have no reason to stay anywhere else when I come to New York, because it feels like my right place.&# Social media affords you a platform to reach out to people who, by virtue of being “connected online,&# can help spread your message virally. As it stands, though, that platform is saturated.

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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

JUNE 3, 2010

This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. I would’ve never compared social media to parenting but now I’m thinking “how could I not?&# MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once. Keep up the good work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. A Community Manager who does use social platforms needs to be able to track its effectiveness in… um… getting people through the door. It makes your client feel special.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. I am new to your blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Why Nobody Should Buy Digg Why Nobody Should Buy Digg by Tamar Weinberg on December 20, 2007 Share It hasn’t even been a week and my once positive outlook of Digg has come to a sour end.

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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. thank you!! But PLURK?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

In order to do well when marketing, one should have tactical knowledge and ideally, first-hand experience of the specific social media platform. Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Reply Jonha April 14, 2010 at 7:25 pm Hi Tamar, Social media is fun as it is interactive but once abused, or if you spend too much time on it, it will really get a little too routine and boring. It is something that always amaze me when I am talking about social application. btw, January 11, 2007? Thanks for commenting.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

I am at the opposite end, trying to help middle-aged and older writers start blogging in order to develop their author platform. Thanks a lot for the nice comment, -Onibalusi Reply Sonia Marsh July 1, 2010 at 11:35 pm Tamar, Thanks for this guest post by Oni.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Zuckerberg: The internet is a great platform for overall communication, but there need to be specific tools. We’re not trying to build new communities; we’re allowing people to communicate with people they already know. Can you talk about how efficient the platform is for this? It’s part of our platform team.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

For blogs, the answer is simple : your blog should be treated as more than just a platform to self-promote. You need to network with like minded individuals and build relationships with people in the blogosphere so that you ultimately get inbound links, comments, and visibility. Blogs must be marketed in order to be successful.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. Reply dotlizard July 22, 2008 at 1:13 am thanks to everyone for your kind words.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

You can also purchase my book, FBML Essentials , which will give you a little more details on FBML (as well as the Facebook developer platform in general). His second book, “ FBML Essentials &# takes you from the ground up on the Facebook developer platform, serving as a reference to Facebook’s Markup Language.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Social media, on the other hand, allows you to connect directly with the audience you want to target, on common ground, and build relationships. If you’re looking to start a blog, a YouTube channel, or some other content platform, it helps to have multiple content creators so that you can focus on the marketing of that property too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social media is an amazing new platform we have (especially for us new small business owners)…but we need to remember to play well together! Your rule #5, in particular, hit home for me. As a “veteran&# (read, “old&# ) marketing and PR person, I think we are wise to remember these basics. Thanks, Tamar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves. It simultaneously promotes the community of TLC’s viewers while also calling attention to a new social network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. It’s how social networks are intended to be used. Besides, what if there was no online platform to network? Because of its original simple use (communication!) But did they listen?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Thanks to social media’s widespread adoption and thanks to a really open API for platforms such as Twitter, it’s inevitable that people will take advantage of the latest and greatest of Twitter tools — and then some — to eliminate the need for manual labor while still charging an arm and a leg for services.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I, like other “students&# at the time, always thought Facebook wouldn’t “sell out&# and become an open platform. Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I think that it is “shiny new toy&# syndrome — there are a lot of claims that people can be social media rockstars because well, they’ve had a Facebook account since 2007! Having a presence on a social media site doesn’t mean they’re social media experts.

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