Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 16, 2008

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Advertising Building your personal brand is about interacting with others and establishing your credentials. Logging onto social networks only to propagate self aggrandizing propaganda will turn off potential clients. To get social media success you should first gain the trust of your followers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Advertisers aren’t going to pay a content producer if they aren’t getting traffic to their site, and certainly other revenue streams and models will be affected in the same manner. Some of these sites also offer the ability to have commentary, including Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed, SocialMedian, and many others.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Low Return Industries These types of businesses tend to take a long time to create return in social media. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing > How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search How You Can Benefit from Real Time Search by Tamar Weinberg on April 22, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Evan Britton, founder of Sency. And it’s real-time. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. Some people think social media is just fun. If you have your brand name as your Twitter handle and a portrait photo of you on your profile, you are getting it all wrong. And that was the UK.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! This is a blog post intended to address social media strategy, but social media marketing is not a panacea.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. FriendFeed takes this idea and goes a step further. It’s a great system … in theory.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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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

MARCH 4, 2010

I spoke with Brian Simpson, Director of Social Hospitality, for more insights into how social media became an asset for Roger Smith, and I learned some great things. 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.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

It introduces your brand Is your company new? Or has it been around awhile but hasn’t been using social media? Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood. Social media is changing how we do buisness. Twitter is a fantastic tool to use.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# 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.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I first came across the benefits of this tool when I started advertising on Facebook. I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

How do you get your news? In the past I have variously read newspapers, watched TV news bulletins, read news.bbc.co.uk Now it seems I get most of my news from Twitter. Twitter: The Upside and the Downside Three days ago, Heath Ledger passed away. It’s like any other news medium.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

The main appeal of most things that take off on the internet is that they were made because someone wanted to make them, not because some movie studio is trying to make a few extra dollars by trying to take advantage of cheap advertising. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Just because I choose to reach out to you, comment on your blog post, follow you on Twitter, become your Facebook friend, or join your LinkedIn group, it was a desire for me to possibly get to know you in the future. Although, I suppose people could do the same on Twitter where I am more visible. What do you choose? Answers Yahoo!

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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 15, 2008

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

If I’m managing your Twitter account , you might find a response from me at 11 PM on a Saturday night or 2 AM on a Tuesday. Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. I reply to emails around the clock like a robot.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Brand awareness is important, especially when it comes to a web hosting firm that was advertised on a multitude of technology websites. Next time you proceed in a social media marketing campaign, follow some ideas and steps: Know your market. Kn ow your social media source’s demographics. Learn who your competitors are.

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Social Media Digg Brands Marketing 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

And have you recently seen Gary’s Twitter stream ? As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009). Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding what it means to be a social media expert. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

How are small and large companies using Twitter , and how can I do the same? As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are interested in this new “social media” thing but haven’t actually dipped their proverbial toes in the social waters yet. However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. Michael via Twitter ) [Today is] the day that Digg died. As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me.

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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. Yes it will. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner is a powerful application that manages the more high level management Twitter tasks for you, from managing followers/friends to changing your profile design and then some. Consider spam protection for your email inbox ported over Twitter. Twitter CRM. It’s especially difficult to build up a strong following.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. get Twitter mentions of your brand via RSS or email) or use a service like Backtype (backtype.com) to see comments across blogs and other social media sites (such as FriendFeed).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity. On that note, if you’re so inclined, you can follow me on Twitter too. Good content and copywriting will win over new readers and customers. Answers Yahoo!

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Yahoo Conference Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Twitter Following a user and then unfollowing them before they have a chance to follow back. Consistently using your Twitter stream for nothing but self-promotion and ego. This is much more bothersome when the request comes via IM or email and not on Twitter itself. Twitter is also about real relationships.

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