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

JANUARY 5, 2012

For those die hard SEO practitioners who don’t see the value in social, this article shows the last few months’ impact on search engine rankings. Ultimate Blogger’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization : There have been a lot of guides on blogging and SEO, but this is the latest and has good info. Use forums.

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Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

5 Ways Companies are Using Social Media to Lower Costs (Mack Collier): Just what are the benefits of social media? 100 Thoughts on Social Media (Conversation Agent): This may be one of the shortest blogs post I’ve added to this 2010 list. These 8 steps are clear-cut and will guide you through the process.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

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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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

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

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. To get social media success you should first gain the trust of your followers.

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Brands Handbook MySpace Construction 236

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. Accept a New Normal When I talk about accepting a new normal , I’m talking about two different aspects of life. Take my own situation as an example.

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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

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. When you integrate your profiles, you help build the relationships you have already started on each social site. Do I have social media integration on my business blog?

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

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

JULY 8, 2008

What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? There are days when marketers may have to serve as internal evangelist by introducing key stakeholders to social media. Others aren’t.

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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.

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

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. He is also the author of Trust Agents and Social Media 101.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? 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.? As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Alone Doesn’t Cut It Social media marketing alone is not enough. There’s a lot more to marketing than just being social. For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. SEO and social media are two entirely different things. Social media marketing, too, is now a reality for many.

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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). Digg is by far the largest; as a former “top user&# of the service , I built strong relationships with employees and users of the social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. 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.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media Will Change Your Business : This is an update to an old article from BusinessWeek on how blogs have changed your business. Not anymore — it’s about social media (which typically encompasses blogs too). How Does a Company Dip its Toes in the Conversation? : You can learn a thing or two from it.

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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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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

In a room full of 100 people there will statistically be at least two active bloggers. We are closing in on having 200 million active bloggers online, so I want my advice to be relevant and useful for people in the majority of industries. There are more quotes, examples and data excerpts in this post than any other I have written.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

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. Therefore, I suppose the nested conversations and time-line layout make complete sense. and social media sphere.

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

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. Disclosure: I helped plant the social media seeds for rushIMPRINT.) On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. What if you want to offer 10% off?

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook. In other words, don’t show up in the social space only when you need a hand. You can’t really do social media effectively without goals. That’s truly a given!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. 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. It also becomes direct.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

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.&# If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far. This article is an example of that. However, things have changed. Congrats to the Roger Smith Hotel!

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

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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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

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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Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

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. In fact, most of them had already left.

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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. It’s also a conversation medium. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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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

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Conversion expert. Reply Tamar Weinberg March 10, 2010 at 12:50 pm True.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Working on campaigns for several clients and its been a slow haul, especially for a new brand. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 151

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

MARCH 10, 2008

One example of this is that we just launched internationally: Facebook was always available for people to use but only in English. Lacy : For such a long time until the Microsoft deal, IPO was a topic of conversation. Kevin Rose, for example, is not CEO of Digg. and they all use Facebook as an example. Zuckerberg : Right.

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