The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The tipping point will simply come when a console manufacturer who runs a gaming network e.g. Microsoft, enables their user database to feed mobile devices and social network games in addition to the Xbox Live network. My money would be on Microsoft to be the brand to make it happen.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 4, 2009

December 4th, 2009 · View Comments Having spent a long time looking at, reading about, and experiencing firsthand the changes happening to print and digital mainstream media publishing, it’s a bit of a shock to find out I’ve gone down completely the wrong path. Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Stocktwits gets funding, Bit.ly

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

“The mainstream gaming market will always be native. It’s generally easier for marketers to garner excitement for a native app, though this will change over time. link] blur Marketing [link] Is It Curtains for the App Store? It use to be that Apple was the scrappy underdog and white knight to Microsoft's evil empire.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Development Social Media Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship Sat, Oct 17, 2009 Government 2.0 I was in Las Vegas this week to participate in BlogWorld 2009 with some of the industry’s biggest big-wigs in social media. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

Development Social Media Why Social Media is Scary Sun, Jan 11, 2009 Best Of , Social Media As one of my company’s social media leads, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a wide range of people about social media. link] sradick Partha – great example of the Mini-Microsoft blog. Government 2.0 It’s scary.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

The details of his somewhat haphazard education at Harvard, and his kismet kissed co-founding of LinkExchange (ultimately sold to Microsoft for $265 million) are downright fascinating. This is the overarch… [link] #marketing [link] Jim Weldon Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed: Yes, nice guys can finish first.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

The only new users Digg is attracting at this point are web marketers who want a slice of the traffic it sends. It might be hard going as a marketer, but as a person who genuinely loves Digg content, I don’t see the quality of the submissions on the site going sour for quite some time.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Is your social media program about asking, … [link] #marketing [link] Evo Terra Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

She told me she worked in Internet Marketing, which I was quite excited to hear given that there was no marketing discipline taught at all in our alma mater. With Internet Marketing, there are many ways to go, from affiliate marketing to SEO to social media to email marketing. What was she doing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

All of these blogs also make use of affiliate marketing and it works for them since they have a large audience. However, comScore, the leading internet marketing research firm recently did a study on Kontera In-Text ads and found among other things, that we’re actually one of the least disruptive ad formats.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week. Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! And they never really pushed into the huge Asian market either. It never captured the social media market. I disagree with your view all these changes and additions are good for Brands or Marketers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

What about the ad deal you currently have with Microsoft? Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. In terms of the Microsoft relationship, we want the way people make money to be in line with the way people use the site. Our marketing director has a tech background.

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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? That’s because social media marketing experts found success early on since social media relationship building was simply easier. Is Social Media Becoming Boring?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. This has happened before online. Proposals are written. Resources deployed. Stuff gets built.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

Assuming you want to dive into the pool of custom graph creation and data manipulation, you’ll probably do so in Microsoft Excel. RowFeeder – Raw and Ready That’s what I like so much about the new RowFeeder social data gathering system.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

In the ’90s, we gave Grandpa a 486 and I walked him through Microsoft Word (in the absence of any Internet connectivity). Reply Dror Zaifman June 4, 2009 at 2:50 am Tamar I just read your post on your grandfather. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca He played with fonts.

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Social Media Strategery

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Cluetrain Style Sun, Feb 15, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 I’ve fulfilled one of my social media resolutions for 2009 , and have recently re-read the Cluetrain Manifesto. Instead of marketing your social media capabilities, skills, experience, platforms, software, etc. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Or Microsoft. “I built Kurrently in the three weeks between the end of school and the beginning of my internship at Microsoft,&# said Kurrently’s creator Gilbert Leung in my recent Skype interview with him. It came from a Canadian computer sciences student who uses his free time pretty damn wisely.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it. link] Evo Terra That seems to be the angle Google has taken with Buzz.

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