Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

As bloggers, we’ve all experienced it: the completely off topic pitch. There are even more bloggers. The reason PR professionals are succeeding down this path is because of bloggers like us who are receptive to this impersonal and poorly researched messaging. There are thousands of public relations professionals.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

We also see many more corporations building websites on WordPress platforms because the content management system is just that much easier. He prefers to call himself a publisher over a Blogger. The real challenge is that many news websites reside on a Blogging platform and this causes some confusion. No, this is not a new thought.

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An application programming interface (API) is a communication system that allows two applications or platforms to “talk” to each other. Blogger is a free blogging platform owned by Google. Blogger supports single or multi-user blogs. The word “blogger” can also simply mean a person who writes and publishes a blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The social media networks are systems — non-linear, fuzzy, powerful, organic systems. Systems evolve in unpredictable ways. Seems to me that in order to gain the benefits of Social Media Marketing tactics, traditional marketers must give up their need for control, especially of the metrics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Your suggestions are great for newcomers to the social media field, but what do you do when experienced users try to use their expertise to take advantage of the system? Those who aren’t the real experts won’t have done their homework and address all the possible loopholes: they’ll cross their Ts and dot their Is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The numbers would be a lot more representative if this approach was implemented, and the incentive to have users gaming these systems would be substantially diminished. Being able to digg something without ever even having to read the article is backwards. This is a win-win approach. Does that make more sense?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

When I was having some issues adding the commenting system to my web site, I was able to quickly get a response from the JS-Kit team and their users. GetSatisfaction provides a way for companies to do that. JS-Kit Echo uses GetSatisfaction for their customer support.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I also consider bloggers who have forged real-life relationships with me to have connected via social media. Linkedin is not an open networking tool and casual use of it devalues the system and your network within it. Facebook is also really supposed to be a network of trusted contacts too. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Create your own marketing system I recommend that people take a portion of their day to learn as much as they can about what people are saying about them, as well as review competitor and partner activities, and peruse industry trends and case studies. Not sure if there’s a question in there. Maybe I’m just sharing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You can also set a specific follower-to-following ratio, and if you exceed this point, the system will stop following any additional users. You might not want to, and here’s a way to prevent the system from re-following someone you’ve unfollowed already. You can set a day here. User-filtering/pruning. Tweet content: URLs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Hopefully Digg will start addressing the aforementioned issue in addition to the other usability issues that plague the system. What you really are asking for is a private messaging system, which was never the intent of shouts. Delete whatever shouldn’t be there regularly, or just disable shouts altogether.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The Reddit comment system is broke. Reply Slipgrid September 26, 2007 at 2:43 am Err… in my earlier comment I said the reddit comment system is broke. I mean the digg comment system is broke. Also, Reddit allows you to link to pages on its own site. And, that’s just the tip. Lots of other reasons to love Reddit.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

And if you are, I hope you have a disaster recovery system in place!) Don’t you think, however, that the more consumers use social media for customer service, the more it floods the system? When enough people got it, the thieves developed a system to get through it in 10 seconds. It’s like THE CLUB.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

4 Real Offline Uses of Twitter (Dream Systems Media): Twitter marketing is happening online, of course, but it’s happening offline too. Sending products to bloggers helps too!) He talks about what he has learned by maintaining a brand presence on Twitter: specifically, Google’s Blogger account. It was rather cool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

He talks about an honor system where it is our obligation to give people the benefit of the doubt. I can’t say how often I’ve looked to Seth Godin for his insights into small changes that can drastically improve your customers’ perceptions of you. Word of mouth is incredibly powerful.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. It may not be a perfect system, but it’s interesting enough to follow for awhile, and see how it pans out. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter? Great article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You have to have *unique* email addresses in Twitter’s system, but you can circumvent this by doing as Joel suggested just as long as you move to Gmail. But it’s “registered&# in your system, so the next tweet I send gets DM’d to the first person! Also, there’s one huge bug that I experienced a few times.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Our ad system was intended to fit very organically with things on the site. We believe that people are fundamentally good and aren’t trying to game the system inherently. The applications you get are inherent of the product system we’ve set up. These systems are all about trust. I’m asking Mark!

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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). The three biggest issues I see are that Tumblr bloggers fail to: use the best subscription options. create an easy-to-navigate and high-converting blog design.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I liked getting “recommended news&# based on my friends (all my friends’ stories were recommended to me, essentially, in the old system, and then I could pick and choose. That was a great old system. Putting a haphazard system in place without the recommended feature story, however, was a terrible mistake.

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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. I’m glad you see that my use of it is not about fully automating your accounts, but more to not miss posts by favorite bloggers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Keeping garbage out of the system makes for a more enjoyable experience for everyone. There are actually a few websites I don’t subscribe to via RSS because I subscribe to the blogger on Stumble and actually rely on getting their new post via the share. Reply Tamar Weinberg January 26, 2010 at 4:00 pm Great advice, Brian!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Mixx operates on a karma system: participation is key. Interestingly enough, you can see recent voting activity, including who buried your stories. Note: the story in question included a picture of a scantily clad woman. I voted accordingly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

It’s funny that the abuse system is quick to remove spammy stories, but when it comes to them actually responding to real concerns about real users with real feelings, they don’t care. It is a proposal of an open system where everything is transparent and users themselves can vote on decisions. It would collapse without it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

I do think people have abused the system and many have lost credibility. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. Although Facebook’s initial creation was more closed. Zuckerberg aims to create a more open onlne world…whether we like it or not. In their minds, sure, they may not have done something wrong.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

His URL is appended with a _2, which indicates that it was a duplicate submission: [link] The ironic thing is that Digg has a somewhat decent duplicate detection system. However, if you submit the story a few hours later or a few days later, Digg’s system always asks you if you’re sure that you haven’t submitted a dupe.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

It’s a great system … in theory. As an example, let’s take a look at Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed (click the image for a larger view): In this screenshot, Robert utilized both Google Reader and Twitter, and the comments spread to his feed where an ongoing discussion ensued.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

I applaud any attempt like this to make the system more realistic. This puts the story where it can be seen by the masses, and, with a lower weighting of buries, we’ll have a much more “democratic&# system where the majority of users can ultimately decide the fate of a submission. Should top diggers get an edge? Absolutely.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Reddit and Mixx , on the other hand, live on a karma system. Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. Everything about Digg is a competition, the comment system, the submission system, the user-base. Digg is mainly about “surviving&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Do you have any system that has worked? It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. This is where bloggers/writers have a challenge. A few bloggers make decent money selling affiliate type products, info products, training courses and software, but they tell a similar story. Sound off in the comments.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Certainly, the system isn’t perfect, could be improved and everyone has their own viewpoint. And you’ll still have to do some bit of networking to get your posts to the front page, whether it is to ask your friends for votes or to shout using Digg’s internal system. This is my perspective.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

He gamed the system and now looks famous. I’m not saying it’s WRONG, but it’s how non-celebs start appearing to be celebs. It was much easier, though, before Twitter instituted a 2000 following limit (to those who were following too much). Social proof in this case isn’t enough.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

As a blogger, you have the potential to reach a tremendous audience. As an individual, perhaps a company or an entrepreneur who is looking to spread the word about a new product launch, you have the potential to keep marketing costs down by reaching out to bloggers and having them talk about your product. Send them your book.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply Michael D February 6, 2008 at 12:26 pm Tamar, that live twittering of commercials must have been too much for your immune system. Spoke to my medical intuitive buddy who said to gargle with salt water every hour or so and pull that garbage out of the system! I personally use the herbal remedy Echinacea at first sign of illness.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I am looking for a five star rating system that can rate each comment on a Facebook Fan Page. I found a rating system but can’t figure out how to do it. I have searched and searched. I would really like the individual who made the post to be able to request (by forwarding the post to friends) more ratings on their post.

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