Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. 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). What if you want to offer 10% off?

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JUNE 3, 2010

I think the banks/financial institutions should be included in your comparison. DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Really, Jay? DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Jay – I disagree here. Fawn Thanks Jay. You are exactly on point here.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. The game is going to change in a big way very soon.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

But, I’m excited by the possibilities, eager to get our kids set up in what I think will be a terrific situation, fired up about our new home, and eager to get integrated into the Indiana social media community. The Indy tech and social media communities have been amazing, and I'm not even in the state yet!

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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. Does social media convert?

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. The contrast in social media is stark: to build a community, we shouldn't ask who we can reach with what message, but rather, who are our fans right now and how do they talk about us. Does that make sense?

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MARCH 18, 2010

link] [link] Social Media Getting Serious… Social Media is about keeping fans, not creating them! link] [link] Ken Banks Getting Serious… Social Media is about keeping fans, not creating them! link] [link] Ken Banks Getting Serious… Social Media is about keeping fans, not creating them!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If Twitter isn't the spot there needs to be a tool that can help on Facebook without breaking the bank! FohBoh (the restaurant community) works exclusively in the restaurant industry, which seems to be attractive to a lot of social web developers these days, particularly on the B2C side.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. They need to have a means of communication external to their system.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My point for keeping it separate is to leave my regular network and to build up relationships with people who would otherwise not know me by @tamar. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. How can I make my Twitter network grow with real followers and not “spam&# ?

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JULY 13, 2010

Why not try spending time commenting in your targets’ community blogs? That’s the essence of a good social media strategy , anyway. Find teachers, identify valuable communities, volunteer time to non-profit organizations who need your energy. reading about social media and trying different communities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

In other words, they don’t give a damn about the community and they seemed to have moved on — perhaps completely. Instead, since they weren’t, we are left to our own devices and seek alternative methods (which are not the right avenues of communication, but what do you do when the proper roads lead you to a dead end?).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Flowtown allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. Also check out Gist [link] – helps with seeing the connection between your various social networks in a dashboard setting. 39 social media tools I will use today.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. Your story about celebrity cell phones simply does not belong on financial social news site Tipd , no matter how you try to spin it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Because of its original simple use (communication!) and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. It’s how social networks are intended to be used. Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Both wanted to create a Facebook community to connect users to each other. Colleges have Resident Assistants who adhere to the same rules as the students, and they live among their students so they’re very much part of that community. Your loyalties are to your community, and mine are to mine. Sometimes mods make mistakes.

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JUNE 16, 2010

The Secret Sauce Is Relevance I’m noticing common themes among social media successes like BBVA bank. USAA Bank already knew that customers were using technology to make their “banking lives&# more productive. It's a new way to use social media from a sales standpoint that is being overlooked.

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