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. Thanks for the excellent tips.

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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

JULY 15, 2010

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. To be a great blogger you’ve got to think like a reader…Thanks! What’s a good example of this?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Jon [link] Reply Tamar Weinberg January 12, 2010 at 10:53 am Jean-Hughes, I definitely need to try CoTweet. Reply manolo blahnik January 22, 2010 at 7:50 am Jean-Hughes, I definitely need to try CoTweet. Most of us reading these fall into this category.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

For example, if you wanted to research historical information, like to learn what year World War 2 ended; or if you wanted to find out how many games your favorite professional team won last year, a traditional search engine will get you this information. I’m not really a twitter fan but it definitely looks promising.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

This definition had connotations of timeliness, of narrative, and of a personal focus. 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. Back in the day, a blog was a weblog —an online journal.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I definitely could have seen myself “quizletting&# back in the late 90s… too bad Andrew was only about 8 years old then. May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

I have contacted akismet again yesterday , they have to sort me out of all these, I am just getting tired (its almost 2 weeks now ) Reply kyle lacy August 18, 2010 at 1:11 pm This is definitely something that social media enthusiasts have to think about. Call me Victoria from the example above. An 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. Reply Frederick Townes September 23, 2009 at 7:33 pm This is definitely a controversial topic! This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone.

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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.? However, SU definitely saw this post as more sci/tech than Internet. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. However, things have changed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. Definitely not being led by internet marketers. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter?

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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 11, 2008

Reply Jay Adelson January 11, 2008 at 1:14 pm To answer your question, we definitely have the other user concerns on our agenda. I don’t want anyone but the intended recipient to see shouts, for example. I just went to yours, Tamar Reply Tamar Weinberg January 11, 2008 at 12:51 pm Well, they fixed one part but not the other.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Only recently, however, this story has become widely critiqued, with bloggers calling the practice a “vicious … royal mess&# that “crossed the line.&# If i was giving away free perks id definitely want them to go to some one who wasn’t out to get something for nothing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. Definitely not. StumbleUpon: The Funny, the Informational, but Not So Newsy StumbleUpon is probably the last social site that I’d consider going for “news&# — at least not for “current events.&#

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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

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. Great post.

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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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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As a guide to crafting an effective social media policy, you can emulate or combine ideas from one or more of the many social media policy examples now posted online, including the 57 social media policy examples from Dave Fleet or the more than 100 examples posted by Ralph Paglia. Introduction and Definitions.

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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. For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. It’s definitely a worthwhile read. How to Make Social Media Work for Non-Consumer Brands (Mashable): This is a good B2B social media article which is chock full of examples. Sending products to bloggers helps too!) Which approach best suits you?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

For example, here is a recent tweet taken from Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile: “ @problogger bummer I’ll be there 1 week too early.&# That’s the model that works best for bloggers, and it works the same for social media too.

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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. My book breaks down a lot of these definitions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Take MySpace for example, they rank their blog postings daily like a billboard chart. They need to make it impossible for the Top 100/1000 list to exist entirely. Some people have resorted to gaming that system.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive. That’s definitely possible with this functionality.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Side note: great interview with Wesch here ).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web. Take MySpace as just one of many examples of an online property that become too comfortable with its “space.&# What if you want to offer 10% off?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply SMeli February 12, 2008 at 10:16 am i <3 airborne and tamar Reply an anonymous lizard February 14, 2008 at 11:31 am i am hesitant to talk about this in public — google being what it is — but i have a client that wants me to do this, and it is definitely an ethical challenge. however they do have some valid points.

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SocMed Sean

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Take an example of a call center representative who answers the phone and provides the customer on the other end with what they think to be the most current product prices from a document they printed yesterday. Definitely! no blogs, wikis, microblogs, etc…)? More information? Phone, website, Twitter, etc.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. Bloggers already give a substantial amount of their time, so asking for more is just wrong. Bloggers in social media don’t owe anyone else anything, nor do any other bloggers who provide expertise, for that matter. Demanding more is selfish.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

How to Use StumbleUpon for Your Business: The Definitive Guide (10e20): I walked through some of the basics of StumbleUpon, and this guide still definitely points you in the right direction, but don’t be surprised if you see an updated guide posted sometime in the near future! guru, shows how to leverage Web 2.0

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Not Everything is Free I always am fascinated myself by looking at people doing dirty jobs — that guy cleaning the bathroom in Madison Square Garden definitely isn’t a happy camper — and realizing that the only thing that governs people toward these tasks is financial benefit. It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well.

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