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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. It also becomes direct.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

As long as there’s a healthy balance in their activities, I don’t see a problem. COPPA laws protect children under the age of 13, and that’s why Ani’s blog, for example, is protected (by her mother’s request). As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). The only Random person (hence 0%) is another girl named Tamar Weinberg.

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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. Social media gives you an opportunity to exert influence onto customers and prospects. If you’re active in any particular medium, you become influential. You just need to look.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If a forum exists for your industry, you should very well be active: you should participate and follow the discussion closely to know exactly what is being said and what kind of feedback you can take back to your executive and development team to enhance your product and to make it better than your competition. It’s a brave (???)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. 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).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

For example, by looking at ProBlogger, we are being told that the owner is not an amateur but a pro blogger. Let’s take Techipedia for example. For example, if I’m blogging to tell you the importance of traffic then I should also tell you how to get traffic in the same post. For example, my blog is three months old.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive. Tweet activity. A specific number of friends.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Rebecca Kelley , Search Marketing and Social Media Consultant : A social media marketer needs to be an active participant in the social media sphere. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it). They love sharing ideas and news.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. The problem: he was not at all active on the high profile blog and hadn’t written a single comment. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media tools and applications are often seen as existing as their most visible persona (their application within a social network) rather than being seen as tools with wider application and use. Amber [link] Deb Robison Great post and I especially appreciate the viral example and the need for participating with authenticity.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.] You’re a non-profit hoping to take your social media engagement to the next level?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, they use a green background on Twitter, black background on their YouTube channels and maybe red on their Facebook fan page landing tabs. You can promote your social media profiles by integrating offline media. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent. Darren suggests having a memorable design, trying your hand at being a character (e.g.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Once it gathers personalized information from you (hobbies and interests), you can start surfing with StumbleUpon to find brand new sites that are related to your interests as suggested by other users on the service. It shows that you have a vested financial interest in Yahoo News. This is not a real example, readers.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. Keyword stuffing, for example, might have worked 5 years ago, but it’s not a successful tactic anymore.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Personalization : presenting results based on past activity. How did they motivate themselves to continue (while still focusing on school and other “full time&# activities)? Maybe that’s a bad example. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Everyone laughs.]

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

your initial examples are problematic in my opinion: (A) If you or your client does not have an advertising budget, then how *are* they paying you to email people? As such, you deserve to call the shots within reason, and the first illustration you gave is a fine examples of this. I used her as an example for others.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

And at the very least, claim your identity on the applicable (and at the minimum, popular) social media communities before someone else does whose presence — under your name — could be detrimental to your marketing efforts. And get your account started and active immediately. Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

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? Here’s an example of a simple tab I set up: Welcome! Everyone’s “home&# page is unique to them based on their news feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? 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.

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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. Before you get active on social networks, start a blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. I had a good reason to base this on a summer camp example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I think you can struggle in either SEO or social media if you haven’t built up clients and are beginning from only a few assorted examples of work you’ve done for yourself. What if, through your client work, you were tasked with work requiring you to work on a completely different niche — for example, fashion?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

In that spirit, I’ll opt for the “Pamper Herself Spa Relaxation Package&# on the improbable chance I win, most of it to follow your example and be donated. And the great thing about the ‘Family Fun’ package is that it’s loaded with games and activities that can be enjoyed by each member of my family!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I really, really, really hope someone at Facebook starts listening and takes this advice because otherwise business activity will plateau and then plummet and they’ll be out of luck. I’m currently running a Twitter and YouTube contest, for example. You have money and you have the troops ready and waiting. And a week?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Judging from your active history on Digg, it is apparent that you are very aware what constitutes a violation. Reply peaiotj November 8, 2007 at 2:38 am Time for you to find another social news site, befcause you sound like a sycophant at the end there grovelling before Kevin Rose. Your actions are far from innocent.

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