Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? I don’t really do it — it doesn’t jive with me and the messages don’t really resonate with my community — but the options are out there.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

That’s one of the reasons charities can benefit so greatly from being active on social media channels. Almost everyone has an outlet for blogging these days — whether that means a site running WordPress, an account at LiveJournal, or a blog on MySpace or Facebook. These badges generally serve one of two purposes (or both).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl! It would appear then that those who profess to expertise in social activities, by default, are not. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. Regardless of the concern over the sheer abundance of updates on the site, the idea of FriendFeed to combine all of your online activity in one centralized location is the right one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 30, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← The importance of experiencing your community How much to launch a new media brand or project? With Google Me and the rumoured Google Music, perhaps picking up ex-Myspace users is a better first step. Does it have to beat Facebook?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

FriendFeed’s activity for me has ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m incredibly active. The real-time aspect lacks persistence and contributes to items just flowing by when no one is active. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Hi Folks, do you work as an Online Community Manager? Social Media Community Managers Management Monitoring Social Media can be overwhelming. Unported License. Based on a work at pervarakapadiaatmoney.blogspot.com.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? You will automatically know if you should be on MySpace, Flicker, or restrain yourself to Facebook. Hi Folks, do you work as an Online Community Manager? Unported License. Social Media Ne. Mr.X earns four figures monthly!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It’s a must read for any PR professional moving into or active in this space. So, the hardest job is often counseling clients in competitive markets that good community behavior will be rewarded … eventually. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Mom & pop.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

I’ll be talking about brand community strategy and how to activate your audience. Danny Brown) Tagged as: brand communities , facebook , facebook strategy , facebook success summit , Speaking Engagements Did you enjoy this blog post? Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Schedule those important activities in your weekly calendar. So you may get your blog active again by creating little progress (e.g. This helps people to keep their interest in blogging as a business not just once in a while activity. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. It took me 6 months to acquire a good amount of traffic and cultivate a community on my blog and the same goes for any new blogger. As long as there’s a healthy balance in their activities, I don’t see a problem. Glen , too, got an early start.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

They don’t receive a bonus if customer service improves or public awareness increases because of increased social media activity. I know many IT professionals who are huge social media evangelists, and I know communicators who are terrified of losing control of the conversation. That is just not the case.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. It’s so new that the community is being created right now as we speak. Interestingly enough, you can see recent voting activity, including who buried your stories.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system. Also, since you’re in the process of fixing up your blog I wanted to remind you that Mofuse is not doing justice to your mobile site – [link] I tried switching to Disqus but had lots of trouble importing my comments from WordPress, did you have any trouble with that?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The point is that consumers now have a more potent aggregate power: someone with a problem can now reach others with the same problem faster, build a community around this shared problem easily, and mobilize lots of people behind the common cause more efficiently. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Google is undoubtedly huge and they could simply shrug their members off like Digg does to its much smaller userbase, but instead they engage the community and that’s why Google is such a positive brand. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. Mixx is looking rather nice. Only time will tell.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards. RT @jaybaer: 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] Trevor Young "Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards." link] Paul Tagell "Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Users are actively seeking information that will enhance their professional knowledge. And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger. Good rest of list.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. I just think that the *active* cruise community is definitely a bit disappointed.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Seems to me the better bet would be to get people to tell you if they are Facebook/Twitter users and if they want to hear from you there, rather than using a tool like this to essentially spy on people to see where they're active and then message them. link] Michael A. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Active Listening Social media doesn’t create negativity about your brand, it puts a magnifying glass to it. Discover Opportunities If you’re actively listening, you’ll find natural opportunities to market your company contextually. You’ll probably never need your social media crisis plan. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

In the team’s defense, they do have a nicely executed Events tab, and the Wall seems to be pretty active, with a variety of contests for fans. It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. They need to snap up that Facebook name pronto. So, I peeked at YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Flowtown Just Keeps on Getting Better Flowtown , the uber-awesome social anthropology tool that allows you to enter customers’ email addresses, and find out where they’re active on the social Web, has rolled out an amazing new integration with Wufo0 – the easy-to-use online form builder. Need to … noodle on it a bit.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc. Rally third-party endorsers to help share your stories.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

We are actively using YouTube and Twitter to provide education, transparency, mythbusting and customer service where we can. FEMA response and recovery activities are partnerships with state, local, tribal, other federal agencies and NGOs. Our mission is complex and oft misunderstood. Our mission is complex and oft misunderstood.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. But this looks very cool and if they're able to resolve the Facebook page thing it would be awesome and something I'd definitely use. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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