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

DECEMBER 31, 2009

It seems the activity level has fallen off. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Read more: [link] Reply Frank Jovine January 26, 2010 at 11:10 pm This is a value add and one that even I paid attention to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), Reply Kellye Crane August 26, 2010 at 11:40 am Very interesting to me is the account of a “social media rockstar&# with “a stellar social media record&# basically selling you out for a buck. Don’t self promote. I noticed someone asking for advice.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Avi explains, “Twitter lets us take relationships deeper and convert supporters to active volunteers.&# The three staff members also maintain their personal Twitter accounts ( @SanjayPatel is the third) and use these (and a primary @EpicChange account) to spread ideas and to interact with followers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

What is the ROI for Social Media? Jason Falls explores the commonly-discussed (but not easily answered) question about social media. Scared of Social Media? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. But “social media marketing expert?&# You May Already be Pro! Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure? If you haven’t already, get measurement tools to measure all your social activities. Some tools you can use are Social Mention , Trackur , and PostRank. Social Media marketing is about building relationships and conversations.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Tips include being active and tweeting daily, limiting using Twitter for broadcasting, focusing on company-wide social media policies, and more. This article presents fourteen tips for achieving this goal, most of which are common sense but which may inspire you to get more active. Sometimes you can respond.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. After that, your submission is available for sharing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

The problem: he was not at all active on the high profile blog and hadn’t written a single comment. Your service that launched in 2009 does not fit in a post that was written in 2006. You can’t alter history. A few years ago, I had a friend who asked me about a possible guest blogging stint on a high profile blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Kelly via Pownce ) It’s not a positive change to remove story descriptions from your friends activity list. It’s a social site with news secondary. Is there any?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. It’s like any other news medium.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social media marketing, SEO, and forum marketing are the great ways to expand your market coverage. Schedule those important activities in your weekly calendar. So you may get your blog active again by creating little progress (e.g. Keep building more valuable content and engage in marketing this content.

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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

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. Sometimes I’m not (like now).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Because users actively have to scroll over the highlighted word to see one of our ads, only people who are actively curious about our ads will even see them. I’ve been really active in the blogosphere for 4-5 years now, and I see blogs all the time trying new things, including big blogs who wanted to try Kontera and Snap.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

It would appear then that those who profess to expertise in social activities, by default, are not. If they were then they would understand that expertise in “piping the social web&# would be more appropriate and quantifiable. Cheers Tamar. Nick Tadd Reply Tamar Weinberg June 9, 2010 at 12:16 am Cheer Glen!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

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. You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. This is the section where that magic is made. Tweet frequency.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

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). Extracurricular programs combine summer programs, vacations, and related activities. I couldn’t help it. (By

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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)? Vertical search : focusing on a specialized area and building search upon this small slice. What was their inspiration?

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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. Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Reply David Leonhardt February 16, 2010 at 11:30 pm I have three Twitter accounts, simply because there are two activities I want to keep totally separate from my main @amabaie account. One which is more personal to meet new friends through my book review blogging activity. I also have two twitter account as well.

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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

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

DECEMBER 10, 2008

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. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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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. You never want to work for a company who has a bad reputation, especially if you plan to remain in this industry.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

So I hopped on Twitter for a sneak into his daily activities. But that was a few months ago, and I’m naive enough to think that others won’t be so silly in their online engagement activities. Meanwhile, I’ve been working on building out a social media strategic plan for a really interesting company.

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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. Great, now we have that out of the way. Give people the opportunity to navigate through your site to find better content.

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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. Here’s a tip for parents who wants to steer their children away form games and into educational activities as such as writing. Side note: The free flow of information on the web is a part of our modern world.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

If I find someone that I have friended is less than reputable, I unfriend them. To be honest with you, I am interested in connecting with people who are like-minded; people who are or who would like to be entrepreneurs. At the same time, I love connecting and re-connecting with family and friends.

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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. Be proactive, not reactive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Better yet, to show that the page is active, give the users control by letting their Fan posts show up on the front page. As a result, engagement goes up as the page appears very active. The page should appear active but it should also appear like you’re not neglecting your community. This is basic News Feed Optimization.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Companies are at the stage that they cannot afford to sit idly by and be passive in social media. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community. Of course, Ron Paul’s supporters were very active on social media sites and they didn’t get the results they wanted. Ignore them at your peril.

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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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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. A marketer has a goal, even if it is just self promotion, while the rest are just taking part out of social or entertainment reasons. Browsers obviously mostly lurk.

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