Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Social media, on the other hand, allows you to connect directly with the audience you want to target, on common ground, and build relationships. The more you read, the better and more prepared you will be to communicate through various social media channels. Have a unique identity and take a niche Be different and love being different.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

There are at least ten characteristics off the top of my head that make blogs and bloggers successful. These characteristics give the blogs mentioned below fame, fortune, and loyal followings. Want to build your blog and following? Blogs like Mashable and Gizmodo offer a consistent stream of stories every single day.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

These are the people who really make a solid effort — they review the blog content and realize that their pitch might be a further extension of content that they had already seen on the blogs they are targeting. Let’s say you worked with a client to give away a freebie to readers of specific blogs. Yes, seriously.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

While economists argue about whether we are now through the recession or whether we’re headed for a double dip, the Labor Market Outlook Report by the Society of Human Resource Management reports that 56% of their respondents expect job growth for the third quarter of 2010. Courtesy of Dean Meyers Flickr. 98% of U.S.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2010

A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. 89% turn to blogs. 61% use Wikipedia.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 21, 2010

A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. 89% turn to blogs. 61% use Wikipedia.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I follow almost 4,000 people on Twitter , over 1500 on Linkedin , and more on Facebook , Google+ , blogs , forums, a zillion social networks, wikis and more. I get around 800 emails a day (half of them are alerts, newsletters and feed reports for my clients). If you blog create an editorial calendar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?)

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The debate was recently posted on again in a useful way on this blog by Tom Mandel, Transforming enterprise work â?? He also closes his piece with another thought that is consistent with a number of posts on this blog, including mine. In the early days of blogs, Tom was skeptical of their role for knowledge workers.

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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.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 23, 2012

As CIOs and Chief Knowledge Officers bring tools that have been used on the Internet – blogs, wikis, microblogs, profiles – behind the firewall, they tend to expect the same results. "We'll So, if you're deploying social tools internally, what kind of community is your organization creating? Happy hour.

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Proactive Report

MARCH 20, 2010

While a majority of voting features, product reviews, user-generated content and RSS feeds are integrated with other campaigns, that is not true of efforts on social networking sites, blogs or microblogs. According to eMarketer, the reason marketers have the perception that social media is easy and cheap to do.

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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. You can have a create a network or a group bookmarking account so that anyone can add new bookmarks, tags to existing, and add comments. It also allows you to share your bookmarks on other social networking sites.

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Three years ago the idea of a social media press release was first discussed at the inaugural meeting of Social Media Club in Palo Alto. The handful of us who attended that meeting, including Tom Foremski who wrote the blog post Die! Nine out of ten reporters use the Internet to search for information when they write a story.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2009

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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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2007

UPDATE: When I said “related sites&# in the title, I was referring to the 40+ sites who are in on the Beacon tracking system with Facebook, and was not lumping all social networking sites into the pot. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. Innocent until proven guilty applies here.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

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. If you do so on Facebook, your account will likely be terminated especially if Facebook receives reports of misrepresentation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Maybe the moderators of the forum you visit won’t care, but the incessant messages eventually annoy your followers and they’ll unfollow you, report/bury your submissions, or find another place to congregate that doesn’t include your spam. They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. Some people get that.

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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. You can subscribe to more of his ramblings here.

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The Way of the Web

JULY 28, 2011

Yesterday I wrote about how great journalism should be impartial rather than neutral , and today it’s the related subject of distribution mediums – in this case, what should and shouldn’t be reported on via Twitter. Does Twitter differ to reporting on the same event for print or TV? Is reporting on Twitter different?

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 29, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Social Media Ne. About Me - Social Media Network Online Contact Me - Social Media Network Online Your Contribution To This Blog - Social Media Netw. Unported License.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves. Xobni recently released a report showing that we check our email all the time. The report surveyed over 2,200 adults and found that many are dedicated to their work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Home About What We Do PayPal Speaker Contact Subscribe Press / PR Bare Feet Network Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Home > News , Productivity , Social Media , Tech Tools > Yammer asks: What’s Happening at Your Company?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

I started writing for some of my favorite blogs in the industries and topics I’m most passionate about. I started a blog about my schwag addiction (okay, this was just a fun tidbit I couldn’t pass up!) In college, I worked as a student network technician and a Unix systems administrator. and Las Vegas. Not so much.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s great to build a self-sustainable social network and then be able to sit back and relax while the users run the show. Reply Mark Dykeman September 26, 2007 at 7:38 am Hi Tamar, great blog! I’ve posted a couple of bug reports about it, but to no avail, so I gave up on Digg and decided to try Reddit instead.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Simply stated, you can upload a profile picture (200 by 600 pixels maximum, though there are some reports that 180 by 540 pixels might work instead) and start filling out the relevant details about your business. Don’t post it on your blog. Customizing Your Profile Page Great! Tell people how to find you and give them a history.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Yammer is a microblogging application similar to Twitter, only it’s focused on businesses. Are they rewarded or punished for collaborating?

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Also, since I’m such a fan of schwag , Danny Sullivan had me report on the best schwag for SMX West at Search Engine Land. Up Next… As mentioned earlier, I’m off to SXSW and will hopefully be trying something new: taking the sessions to my blog. BTW, your sys admin blog hasn’t been updated in over a year.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

An everything app (also sometimes known as a “ super app “) is a mobile app that handles a broad range of digital needs, including messaging, social networking, ecommerce, delivery services, and even financial services like online banking. What is an everything app? It’s essentially a one-stop shop in app form.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

TechCrunch reported twttr’s first users were sending breaking life updates like: “Cleaning my apartment” and “Hungry.” (My, LinkedIn “in the Black” (2006) In sharp contrast to other networks, LinkedIn was the first to offer users paid premium packages. This moment essentially marked the beginning of social media influencers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

A few months ago, a big named blogger called out another “expert&# for writing an eBook that included a blog post from this blogger without attribution and completely verbatim. 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

This, ironically, relates somewhat to my recent blog post about not understanding the social communities that you’re involved in : unless you’re truly invested in the service, you won’t understand the mentality of the users who do spend considerable amount of time on Digg. I’d love to have a chat with you.

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