Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. Next time you proceed in a social media marketing campaign, follow some ideas and steps: Know your market. Kn ow your social media source’s demographics.

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Social Media Digg Brands Marketing 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

It was taken the night of January 28, 2008 (approximately 11PM EST): While Digg typically allowed stories to hit the front page within 80-120 votes (the latter being more rare than normal), it’s now requiring almost double the number. Really, the biggest unfortunate investment of social media is that it’s often a thankless job.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Social media is exactly that: “social.&# If you’re going to dive in the social media world, you need to understand what it means to be “social.&# Empower them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? How Do You Network on Different Social Sites? by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Social media involves people who work together, not alone. I’ve said before that social media requires a time investment, but right now, you can be one of the first influencers and the investment will not be as substantial as it would be if you were trying to break into an already-established (and well-formed) community.

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Review Digg StumbleUpon Web 2.0 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media , Viral Marketing > When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Send free stuff. Say thank you a lot.

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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. I have some friends that don’t necessarily like the changes made within Digg in 2008, but they still want to be in the top 100 users for that “high&# I alluded to in my introductory paragraph.

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JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. I train on social media marketing and blogging.

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

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MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > Is Social Media Becoming Boring? Is Social Media Becoming Boring? by Tamar Weinberg on April 14, 2010 Share For most, social media is new and fun.

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

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. Maybe next year, folks! Become a del.icio.us

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009.

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Tools Twitter Tips Statistics 207

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. Here’s my list for 2008. The article has examples of how social media worked too. In it, he offers some thought-provoking insights into what must be understood before going into social media marketing.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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? I’m now constantly neck-deep in social media projects, am working with amazing people, and I’m passionate about the people I work with and the work I do.

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Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

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. He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

But with social media marketing, it doesn’t have to be. The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. Thankfully, you don’t have to go at social media marketing alone. Today, marketing your business for free may seem to be an unattainable process.

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Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Social media was always social , just not with that funny name. Forums existed well before I was born, after all. Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg April 14, 2010 at 9:01 am Must read: Is Social Media Becoming Boring? I am only now starting to check these social sites out, just Facebook and StumbleUpon so far.

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MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

The collection begins with posts that start in January of 2008 and have been collected and shared in the last 12 months. 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. What is the ROI for Social Media? Scared of Social Media?

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I consider my current @tamar network, though, either quite knowledgeable or clueless and inactive (as in the case of my family — I still love them but they’re not the target audience for my Twitter account , which is rather social-media focused). I’m not sure there’s much “in-between.&#

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook by Tamar Weinberg on December 10, 2008 Share Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases.

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Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

With Internet Marketing, there are many ways to go, from affiliate marketing to SEO to social media to email marketing. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. A few weeks ago, another person connected with me on Facebook who was referred to me by a social media buddy I never actually met.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. Social media? It’s why we can find social media blogs in the thousands. Brian Solis does this with regular status updates of everything in the social media marketing and PR universe.

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Yet with social media, there’s a perception that it’s easy to score freebies. Social media has introduced incentives to the online space, encouraging others to connect with your business. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread.

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

It’s how social networks are intended to be used. 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. Even social media “purists&# aren’t really that pure.

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Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

However, the number of SEOs I’ve come across are much fewer and farther between than social media marketers. In fact, I hear the same SEO names every day; I learn of a new “social media expert&# twice a day. Despite this, social media marketing is much more difficult than search engine optimization.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Digg 178

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? Thanks, guys!

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Digg StumbleUpon Communities Upcoming 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > An Open Letter to Facebook An Open Letter to Facebook by Tamar Weinberg on April 28, 2010 Share I started this letter before f8, so for the record, it’s not about anything new.

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Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277