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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Stay N' Alive

MARCH 21, 2011

Having written 3 books on Facebook and Facebook technologies, having written an entire site devoted to helping improve a brand's reputation on Twitter, MySpace (and soon Facebook), and having consulted in helping brands, big and small across the web to integrate "social" technologies, I think I can really help in this effort. (did

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Kikolani

JULY 30, 2012

What may come as a surprise, however, is that while 66% of all companies have a Facebook page and 51% have a twitter account, a mere 16% say that their marketing efforts have been fully utilized and integrated into their existing campaign strategies! Take an active role! Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

There have also been doctors that have used social networking tools, like Twitter, during surgery. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer. Here are ten social media tools that can aid you with crowdsourcing: Twitter It is already being used for many crowdsourcing efforts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

After leveraging guest posting on a blog to successfully get more followers on Twitter, Stacey found Twitter to be a necessary addition to her social media strategy. Avi explains, “Twitter lets us take relationships deeper and convert supporters to active volunteers.&# But Twitter is the tip of the iceberg.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 29, 2010

80+% of Twitter Accounts Inactive, But Core Users More Committed By Dirk Singer Though Twitter won’t be heading into obscurity like the virtual world (this New York Times article gives some good reasons why), it’s still the case that Twitter’s actual user base is small compared to the number of registrations as some new stats from RJMetrics show.

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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. Don’t forget to follow Samir on Twitter. I just wish we could cookie users on Facebook and Twitter so I could track their conversions… maybe one day! Answers Yahoo!

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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 last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). But back to MySpace.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

We’ve seen the return of the Koobface virus , the Marines have banned social networking sites (*UPDATED: No, they haven’t ) , and both Twitter and Facebook were overcome by denial-of-service attacks. Contact the author [link] InternetFlyGuy (Hunter Hampton) Twitter Comment Social Media and IT Security: Adversaries or Partners?

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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. Sorry, you must have not read my blog policy. make one blog post per 2 weeks) at a time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. Now that the stay-at-home-moms (and dads) are finding their way to a five-figure Twitter follow count, they’re offering all types of services and branding themselves as all-round experts. Ignore the pundits who try and tell you how to blog, Twitter and network. Nice post Glen. Cheesy but true.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more. I see this seminar as a forum. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The more I participate on social networks like Twitter, Socialmedian, Facebook, and Google Reader, the more my content is being shared and distributed and discussed. FriendFeed’s activity for me has ebbs and flows. Sometimes I’m incredibly active. Sometimes I’m not (like now). This is a win-win approach.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months. Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# He explains that “Twitter allowed me to be social without having to be IRL.&#

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

conferences, seminars, workshops, Twitter, and the blogosphere. is about so much more than just Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube. What will be the new DoD social media policy ? That sense of community, that sense of, “we’re all in this together,&# is one of the the five Gov 2.0 trends that have really emerged in 2009.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Tell everyone in your own gaming community, in forums, in your friends group, facebook, myspace, twitter… you get the rest. None of this is original – American directors like Joss Whedon have tapped into TV Fan activism for years. Email to Friends of the ABC – this organisation is not the ABC but influences the ABC.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. 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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

7) I’m not convinced there is a “tipping point&# for social tools (like twitter): Many may disagree on this and likely we’ll end up debating semantics…but here’s my thinking. Television hit a tipping point - but channels (NBC) don’t. The advice isn’t wrong - but too simplistic. Go join that!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

Now it seems I get most of my news from Twitter. Twitter: The Upside and the Downside Three days ago, Heath Ledger passed away. As more and more people discovered the news of the actor’s passing, Twitter was inundated with news links and statements of surprise. Maki explains that there are 17 ways you can use Twitter.

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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. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Myspace also. includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. They always do.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Active Listening Social media doesn’t create negativity about your brand, it puts a magnifying glass to it. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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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

MARCH 17, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. So I challenged myself to create a list of 10 responsibilities of the Community Manager that extend beyond the realm of Facebook and Twitter (and yes, even blogging). 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Interestingly enough, you can see recent voting activity, including who buried your stories. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! After that, your submission is available for sharing. It’s instant.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Thirdly, get social and join social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon to connect with people and make friends! As long as there’s a healthy balance in their activities, I don’t see a problem. Blogging is so much fun with friends! Social media is also a great way to promote your blog posts. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

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. Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. Ignore them at your peril.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Users are actively seeking information that will enhance their professional knowledge. By the way, you have got a stalker in twitter Reply YellowSEO October 29, 2008 at 11:51 am James/Tamar very interesting comparison I was wondering if you also compared or gathered data on the GEO-locations of the traffic from Stumbleupon & Sphinn.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

I live twittered hour 23 and 24 of my last story submission to Digg. Should Jay and Kevin cater to the most active users or continue to tweak the algorithm so that all users can get optimal use out of the community. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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.&# “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# Two of my friends were too.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

As Jay preaches, social media is not about collecting names, it is about activating your fans. If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction. That can only happen if you know who is doing what. You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I’m also something of a Twitter purist. Enter a second Twitter account. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities.

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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. If you’re active in any particular medium, you become influential. Effective use means more business. Engagement. It’s not enough to broadcast. “Look at this!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). 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. Give them a reason to be actively engaged.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. How omnipresent is he?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Building value with education basics, simple strategy ideas and social media policies has been a key factor in my company winning new accounts. An active agency social media presence will lead to expertise in the agency.

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