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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our blog that clearly is known for addressing a specific subject matter, we get an email from a public relations agency that takes us for someone completely different. Jonathan Fields blogged about his PR outreach nightmare. Where do they come off doing that? Guess what? His response?

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

“Participating in social media isn’t just about creating a page, making a blog post, posing a question, or tweeting. You can’t just ‘leave your mark’ and expect success…Members of social media communities are no longer swayed by a coupon for 10% off or an invitation to try a new product.

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

March 2, 2008 at 11:42 am 8 Networking Tips To Engaging Business Relationships « DeansGuide August 21, 2008 at 1:23 pm The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook: The Most Egregious Sins on Social Media Sites, Exposed  techipedia | tamar weinberg December 10, 2008 at 9:02 am A Few Excellent Posts of the Day | StepForth Web Marketing Inc.

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They’re tasked with contacting bloggers about different initiatives, sending out story ideas and “press releases&# (hopefully with a social component, since those are preferred by many bloggers). Let’s say you worked with a client to give away a freebie to readers of specific blogs. Yes, seriously.

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I don’t expect marketers or bloggers to have been reading specific blogs forever, but they should know about the blog’s culture before promoting themselves. In a nutshell, they should show that they know what the blog is about, and if they’re really looking for coverage or acknowledgments, they should be visible.

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