Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Certain niches are more likely to see greater returns from social media. High Return Industries These industries tend to see high returns in social media marketing, quickly. Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Microblogs e.g. Twitter. When we do professional activities on the above elements within the internet space we start to approach our stakeholders at various levels. microblogging-sites August 25, 2010 4:56 PM Pervara Kapadia said.

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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 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

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

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

AUGUST 25, 2010

On a particular forum I am active on (yes, I still use them!), As for social media, people must keep in mind that being active is a huge part of the success of any avenues of social media. Be active show that you are a valuable resource to your “followers&#. Don’t self promote.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JANUARY 12, 2010

Today, my 1,508 Facebook connections are broken into the following categories: Extra-curricular Programs refer to friends I met on vacation, through summer programs, or though other related activities. Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below. It’s not.

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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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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Looking for a way to monitor social media activities and results on a tight budget? Want to show the world how social you are with a cool widget on your website or blog? A powerful real-time social search engine that not only displays results for a specified term or phrase, but lets you filter results by source (e.g.,

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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

MARCH 17, 2010

Meaning, the more active you are, and the more active friends you have, the more clout your post has in the pool of other posts for that venue. You may not be able to spot the active Yelp users as they walk into your shop, and you sure as heck can’t write fake reviews for yourself all day long!

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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

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

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

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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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

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

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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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

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.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

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

MAY 19, 2008

What has changed in the last three years for me, is how much more open I am with my online activity. Moved on to Classmates.com and Amazon book reviews. I had anonymous names and handles. The openness makes it more fun and meaningful. Found your article through Barbara K’s Tweet. I think that was my hook point.

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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

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. Rather recently, she told me that she had enough and was going to quit.

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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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