Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. It gives you feedback A big advantage to using social media is the “give and take&# built into it.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Then this is the blog post for you. I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Myspace also. Yahoo, too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

For those who are cautious about sharing too much, Facebook allow you to put specific rules in place, such as a Limited Profile, but I personally think it’s very interesting to see into the lives of my friends, whether it be a new hobby, a breakup (or an engagement announcement!), or the desire to establish a new group.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old. Customer Service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

July 3, 2008 at 9:17 am Insight Into the World of Plurk | Collective Thoughts July 3, 2008 at 3:49 pm Does Plurk’s Karma guage Social Capital? For me it is very easy to say that Plurk is a new favorite. Reply Snoop Bloggy Blog June 30, 2008 at 3:39 pm People don’t like responding to me on Twitter, DAMN IT!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). Twitter can indeed satisfy many goals. Answers Yahoo!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. Groups : Facebook Groups still exist, but I wouldn’t encourage using them unless you’re looking to maintain a fully closed and private community in the confines of the service. Normally, Groups exist to let people congregate around a common interest.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I see this seminar as a blog. 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. Individual vs. membership blogging?

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Social Media Network Marketing

JULY 17, 2009

Today's other popular social networking sites include LinkedIn and MySpace. Social news sites. Just as the name says, the main purpose of a social news site is to exchange newsworthy information. On these sites, users submit photos, videos, news articles, blog posts, and more for others to view.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. Already, however, it’s gaining momentum among “Digg refugees&# and folks who don’t feel comfortable on other social networks. And for that reason, you should join–now. It’s instant.

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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. Calling attention to social profiles? Calling attention to mobile apps?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

If you’re using social media in a personal capacity, do simple gut checks like discussing which photos are appropriate to post on your Facebook wall. If you’re blogging in a personal capacity, ask permission before going forth with it. It’s hard to explain passion for Twitter or a love of a blog. Thanks Deb!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Don’t post it on your blog. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. You should still consider your blog or website as a viable way to build community and/or to drive sales and conversions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Reply Tamar Weinberg September 26, 2007 at 12:17 am My primary complaint with Reddit is that while it’s not slow at all compared to other social news sites, the interface is very primitive. Reply Mark Dykeman September 26, 2007 at 7:38 am Hi Tamar, great blog! Maybe I should start using Reddit more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. I have debated doing a blog or video on this, but Im glad you contributed! Yup, it’s true.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Many call this spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

FriendFeed is just another tool to let the world know who you really are on top of Facebook and LinkedIn (and perhaps your blogs). Even if you shared your social media profiles on your blog/website in the past, FriendFeed forces your actions across all social networks upon your friends and makes them much more public.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

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. In it, he offers some thought-provoking insights into what must be understood before going into social media marketing. She has some great comparisons.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Industry and social media connections are further broken into additional categories, as seen in the charts below. My industry (internet marketing/blogging) connections (who are 99.7% These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

I was fortunate to have the help of James Duthie, a serial guest blogger from Online Marketing Banter , a blog on social media, marketing, and more.? A few weeks ago I wrote a post over at SEO Scoop comparing the quality of search engine traffic against social media traffic. I have a few different blogs, one being a humor blog.

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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. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. I find them blogging about the coolest innovations or discoveries. Crucially, their expectations have changed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

These sites have a responsibility both to T their new users, who are assuming there’s general interest in a topic based on diggs or likes, and to the content creators providing the content, to ensure that the system is genuine recommendations, and not a lip service to gain popularity on the network. This is a win-win approach.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. Hey, this is a confessional blog post, and I totally hear you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

I now present you with … Infraction #2 : On October 31st, my friend Erik created a Facebook group for Digg fans which was inspired by the extremely popular (3241 Diggs as of this writing) Digg story about how Stephen Colbert’s Facebook group was the fastest growing ever. The URL now is dead.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

&# It’s unfortunately a situation I’ve been picking up more and more on as I see users building their entire social media marketing empire on the basis of automation. Add value by finding blog posts or articles of interest to your followers and make sure to credit the author of the article, especially if he’s on Twitter!

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Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 11, 2009

Social networks. they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter. The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. A soon-to-be-talked about new venture sent me on quest to explore what was happening with women and social networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > How to Get an Influencer’s Attention How to Get an Influencer’s Attention by Tamar Weinberg on March 24, 2010 Share Influence is everywhere, but it’s up to you to spot it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Once connected, he looked at their friends and followers to see if there was an opportunity to branch out and make new friends. He says, “The use of Twitter was mainly for the brevity and ability to drive traffic to our blog and booking site rogersmith.com. Two days ago, they launched a new campaign to replace the old one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

And you there with the SEO/tech blog, that goes for you too. Keep in mind that sharing only a particular website or blog is a very common reason for people being banned from SU. I have also heard/read this in some blog post and I don’t think that it’s entirely accurate information.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Super list of 50 social media links Have you ever wanted to know more about how to make a huge impact in social networking? From Blogs to Twitter and everywhere in between.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. Today, Facebook or MySpace will help you locate lost family or reunite with old friends.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

MG Siegler , Technology and Digital Writer : I think a person who is a social media marketer is someone who is an expert at all of the various way of getting data on the various social sites out there. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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