Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

I was contacted by 16-year-old blogger Onibalusi Bamidele who has guest-written this post. There is a trend among many new (and even old) bloggers. Yet many bloggers who have not even spent up to a year on their blogs keep complaining about not achieving any results. Let’s take Techipedia for example.

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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. Here are some key ideas and takeways — as well as inspirational bloggers you might want to follow — who can help you realize that dream. Eloquence My three favorite bloggers are Brian Solis , Lisa Barone , and Adam Singer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It might also be a good idea to have clear examples from previous examples of your work that you can show them, with solid stats, visual tools and information, so you have something concrete to back up the points you’re trying to make. The best you can do is explain it as clearly as possible.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

They’re designed to be chatty – as if you were having a conversation with a friend. favorite bloggers loves using big words, but I realize that I spend 3-4 times longer on this blogger’s posts than I do on all other posts because of the verbosity and complexity of the prose. What’s a good example of this?

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AUGUST 22, 2018

And some bloggers have a naturally terse writing style, whereas others like to dig deep and give lots of examples. Twitter, for instance, is often described as a “microblogging” platform. While plenty of people use it for general conversations or promotional tweets, others do use it in a blog-style way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. And read these tips on how to become a great blogger. These are conversations, not broadcasts. Here are tips on becoming an influential blogger. Others have been there for over a decade.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

This turns bloggers sour, thinking that everyone in public relations or blogger outreach is just a spammer. It’s time consuming to look at which bloggers to target, read posts, and then write a personal message to the blogger along with the actual pitch. However, if you want really good coverage, you’ll do it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As someone who does public relations for companies, I’m sure you carefully pick your bloggers for the pitch. Bloggers have to weed out the crap and PR pros need to find the right people for the job. The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. We both have difficult jobs. That’s just fine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I’ve personally taken this concept so far that I now have a pretty new box at the end of most blog posts which highlights other bloggers that I enjoy. Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. The first is personal. Nice post Glen.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). I also consider bloggers who have forged real-life relationships with me to have connected via social media. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. Do you mean conversions? Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. It’s really not that hard!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, they use a green background on Twitter, black background on their YouTube channels and maybe red on their Facebook fan page landing tabs. It helps build loyalty, generate conversations, and it also gets you more followers if you do it right. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Are my profiles well branded?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Bloggers may be hobbyists or corporate CEOs. Even the tools that bloggers consider decidedly blog-focused, like WordPress, are used increasingly on news and other content sites. Forums, which can also be considered within the content site category, tend to be more conversational, and less get-the-facts-to-you focused.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Once funding goes in, it almost always follows that the site creators distance themselves from the “politics&# of the site (especially with a growing community), instead hiring “worker bees&# to partake in conversation (if at all) on their behalf. May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Josh’s examples relate to sites like Digg, which allows a short description, and FriendFeed, which is similar in that respect. I have NO PROBLEM with conversations happening offsite.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. Your best bet is to consider an integrated marketing plan that consists of social media and other marketing tactics, because the act of just being nice to people online won’t bring you conversions. That’s exactly why social media bloggers blog in generalities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

I asked several social media consultants, bloggers, marketers, search engine optimizers, and social media addicts about what they considered to be essential skills and characteristics of the most efficient and results-driven social media consultants. They usually work 70 hour weeks and need to be extremely flexible. Others aren’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

&# The question was purposely left open-ended; I wasn’t necessarily seeking out attention in the form of a product pitch, despite the fact that many of those asked are prominent bloggers. Chris Brogan Chris Brogan is a blogger and president of New Marketing Labs. As such, the responses are varied — just the way I wanted it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

It began thanks to endorsement by top bloggers in my industry and carried through by the quality of the information I provided in the Blog Profits Blueprint. His book has been the topic of conversation just about everywhere , and for good reason. Tim is the author of The Four Hour Workweek , a bestseller about the mobile lifestyle.

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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.? Conversely, with a slightly more generic subject matter (and the occasional gag post), Online Marketing Banter seems to be a little more popular with Stumblers.

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MAY 6, 2012

I also started to receive a ton of emails from former Posterous users asking me if the Tumblr platform was right for them (or whether WordPress or Blogger was a better choice). Examples include the Time Magazine Tumblr blog, the National Post Tumblr , and the LIFE Tumblr. create an easy-to-navigate and high-converting blog design.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I think you can struggle in either SEO or social media if you haven’t built up clients and are beginning from only a few assorted examples of work you’ve done for yourself. What if, through your client work, you were tasked with work requiring you to work on a completely different niche — for example, fashion?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Publicizing a private conversation on a wall post. Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright?? Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web. What if you want to offer 10% off?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# This article is an example of that. This is an great example of a company that gets it and has moved the needle because of it. However, things have changed. You have to gain them by gaining their respect.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

StumbleUpon – A Blogger’s Best Friend (Newest on the Net): A beginner article from Fred Peters about how to use StumbleUpon to gain traffic to your sites. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&# Social Media: Under the Microscope (SiteLogic): Matt Bailey compares the traffic spikes to conversions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the bloggers and influential Twitter users, however, wanted to promote the client’s Twitter account, because there’s a simple expectation that companies, at this day and age, should have a social media presence. It is nice to see people having an honest conversation. Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : On the other hand, if you are Brian Solis, you need to know what to do as an expert and where to listen to the ongoing conversations. A List of Social Media Marketing Examples : Peter Kim has an exhaustive list of companies engaging in social media. Hey, I hear you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Companies are still challenged with whether they *should* get involved in the conversation. I don’t they had much of a choice though. Reply Tamar Weinberg July 21, 2009 at 9:21 am In a way, Nick, they certainly could have. Many people think that if they involve themselves once, they’re essentially sucked in forever.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. I had a good reason to base this on a summer camp example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. well……that just seems like a place for kids and even though Facebook seems to be replacing MySpace for youth conversations, it brings out the kid in me while accomplishing the networking part at the same time. I’ve never even tried friendster.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. The problem has been growing for about 20 years as more and more products and services have become commoditized–and Google is the ultimate example with free search. I explicitly had this conversation with this guy this morning… and I got the sense that he was overly generous.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. weekly video newscast/conversation that covers the week’s top 7 stories in social media marketing from Nick Mendoza, Alex Miller and Andrea Nowack. The Social 7 An informative (and fun!)

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