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? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook. You’re likely not alone.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home About In the Media Dear Airtel: It is about Customers & Conversations Facebook and India August 3, 2010.6:07 Time has passed by and since then, Facebook has grown to half a billion global users and would fall next only to China and India if it were a country. The bottom line is, Facebook isn’t a one size fits all solution.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2007

51 am Linkedin v/s Facebook – Professional up Against Social Jump to Comments Matt Dickman’s thoughtful post on Linkedin v/s Facebook raises a few questions. Everybody knows and has been saying that Facebook is Personal and Linkedin is more Business users. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. Don’t use a Facebook Group. Therefore, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. The major “Web 2.0″ This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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JUNE 27, 2008

« Professional services network offsite: Tapping the Power of Collaboration | Main | Audio stream of radio interview on Facebook, networks, connectivity, and media » Eight steps to thriving on information overload. Reading and learning are what Stephen Covey refers to as Quadrant II activities - important but not urgent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

A couple of years of ago, one could easily identify active users through blogs & discussion forums. But now the platforms have diversified, today there are Indians heavily discussing social media on twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. influential Indians in social media on Facebook etc.) Any collaborators?) What am I missing?

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 5, 2008

We are now a strong community of 1 Million professionals • There are 10,000 active bloggers who participate in active blogging We have leaders like Narayan Murthy, Azim Premji to fresh graduates who share their opinion & thoughts to contribute their knowledge and advice through blogging. However, I still review some Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook, originally known as thefacebook.com, was a service that connected college students to their classmates and to friends in other universities. If you do so on Facebook, your account will likely be terminated especially if Facebook receives reports of misrepresentation. Sorry, there are eleventy billion SEOs on Facebook.

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Laurel Papworth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Digg has changed it’s social networking strategy from spotlighting key influencers who “digg&# a lot of articles to collect followers (crowd gatherers) to news from your friends. The Digg Situation. The new Digg looks, therefore, like a mix of Facebook, Twitter, and RSS. Cos that’s a friend no?

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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. I like you, Facebook, I do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

In a long-ago interview with Wired , Professor & Author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defined a person being in the “Flow” as Being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. If you want to get better at using social media, try to channel how you behave at your “social peak” into your social media activities. Time flies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Here’s a screenshot of a story that became popular with a whopping 235 Diggs. 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.

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 2, 2008

Spectators: (?????) - Watchdogs, keep an eye on the stream of activities by reading blogs , listening to podcasts , watching videos. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0 Inactives: (???????) - Do not participate or observe.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 11, 2010

Do you have a team that is very loosely coupled with no clear leader that coordinates your social activity and it feels strained or hard to hold together? Share this on Facebook. At the highest level there is really 2 ways to organize your social media efforts: Centralized or Decentralized. So stop holding yourself back and just do it!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0. The professors’ styles feel like a comparison of LinkedIn and Facebook. I see this seminar as a forum.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 24, 2008

SnagIt enables users to capture selections, full screens, active window. Technorati Tags: SnagIt , MindMapping tools , Bubbl.us , Cayra.net , GreatNews , RSS , RSS Reader Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 1 Comment Filed under Cool Stuff 1 Comment Vic Gee March 26, 2008 at 6:25 am There are many more free mind-mapping alternatives.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Already, however, it’s gaining momentum among “Digg refugees&# and folks who don’t feel comfortable on other social networks. Interestingly enough, you can see recent voting activity, including who buried your stories. Social Desire November 30, 2007 at 5:26 pm Don’t Digg? It’s instant.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Facebook Adding users as friends without proper introductions. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Turning your Facebook profile photo into a pitch so that you can gather leads through your Facebook connections.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

My advice would be don’t let Google Reader (or any social activity) over run your life – remember you are in control! Share this on Facebook. A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader). Tweet This!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Marketers love Facebook. With 350 million+ users, a self-promoting and natural way to have people promote your product, and a very active audience full of close friends and family, what’s not to like? Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. This applies to Pages as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

In other words, I can check someone’s Friendfeed page and get any information I want about them, including when they are actively engaged in social media activities and how much of a priority social media is to them in their online habits and information consumption. If you use Facebook aps for StumbleUpon, etc.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging. Thought I was going to say “Facebook?&# If you’re active in any particular medium, you become influential. Drive Leads through LinkedIn. Be responsive. Offer value.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic. It seems the activity level has fallen off.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

You may want to create a custom Twitter background, custom Facebook fan page landing tab (with FBML) and custom YouTube channel backgrounds. I have seen people mix up colors on their YouTube Channels, Twitter profiles, and Facebook fan pages. How about telling your Twitter followers what is up on your Facebook fan page?

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 9, 2007

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 3 Comments Filed under Kool Companies 3 Comments Anand August 10, 2007 at 11:48 am The comment section of this blog itself is a demostration of the wisdom of crowds. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0 philosophy&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Create your own marketing system I recommend that people take a portion of their day to learn as much as they can about what people are saying about them, as well as review competitor and partner activities, and peruse industry trends and case studies. Instead, join the top four networks: Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories. I just wish we could cookie users on Facebook and Twitter so I could track their conversions… maybe one day! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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The Marketing Blog

JANUARY 5, 2009

Via Carf We’re witnessing more and more offline discussions about this subject, newer breed of quality bloggers who’re providing their perspective, research activities being carried about and even some very unique & collaborative efforts in online blogging. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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The Marketing Blog

JANUARY 28, 2008

Technorati Tags: apple , ipod , product , product packaging , package , packaging , iPod , iPod shuffle Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under Product Marketing 5 Comments Packaging Man September 22, 2008 at 1:54 pm It’s true that the packaging carries a lot of value when packaging luxury perfumes etc.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Avi explains, “Twitter lets us take relationships deeper and convert supporters to active volunteers.&# Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca But Twitter is the tip of the iceberg. Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags.

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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. You may have stumbled upon a site a few hours ago, and now you’re actively Tweeting. What content are they sharing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

and obviously more recently sites such as Digg. If you’re not actively engaged, the news won’t come at you. Digg: Newsworthy, Informational, and Funny Chris also mentions that he has used Digg as a news source. Twenty-two minutes after it hit the front page, it sat at 2099 Diggs. He was 28.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. The Facebook page could be totally overrun by bandits and they’d never know because they aren’t paying that much attention. Don’t self promote.

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 17, 2008

Operating from Tirupur (India’s t-shirt junction), Xtees.com has been active in the t-shirt selling space for about 5 years now (older than any of the current startups in this space). The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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