Proactive Report

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Help your loyal supporters contribute to and participate in the reporting of the news around your brand. An energy drink discovered that a young man who was one of the top ‘diggers’ – people who post news to the social news site digg.com – is a huge fan of their brand and their Xtreme Sports events.

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Journal News Digg Sports 99

Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Super list of 50 social media links Have you ever wanted to know more about how to make a huge impact in social networking? The “Middleman” of Social Media is Your Friend The Next Evolution of Social Media… You can’t handle the truth!

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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! I train on social media marketing and blogging.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

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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Engineering Wikipedia MySpace Yahoo 142

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study.

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. People visit social networking sites because they want to have conversations that dont involve sales pitches. Powered by Blogger.

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

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. mentality there.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

Do following things: 1) Create new page via WordPRess control panel with page title “Search Results&# and paste the code of Googles Search result code text box. 2) Publish that page. ‘ABC’ is the page id of NEW Search result page, which you have created in WordPress) 5)Save the file.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Industry News > Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them by Tamar Weinberg on July 1, 2010 Share Inspired by my recent post on How Young is Too Young? ,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Reply Robert Berkman February 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm You might be interested in a book on this topic–just published literally today(!)–The Reply Manuel Viloria February 24, 2008 at 3:34 am How about an arrow from the blogger that leads directly to Newspapers or to TV? Reply steve February 22, 2008 at 11:34 am Well said!

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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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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Your Status Matters Twitter is not just any kind of social networking site. That’s the model that works best for bloggers, and it works the same for social media too.

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Analysis Twitter MySpace Consultant 215

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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Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

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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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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. Does social media convert?

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

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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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

With permission, I am publishing the unedited version here. But with social media marketing, it doesn’t have to be. The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. A converted client is a more dramatic and trusted story which makes it more interesting on the social network.

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Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

A few nights ago, I went to the bloggers/Twitterers briefing for News.com new digital subscriptons for news hosted by Chief Executive Officer – News Digital Media and The Australian Richard Freudenstein and The Australian’s editor Clive Mathieson. e.g. my partner Gary Hayes being published in Wired and The Guardian.

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Communities Social Media Journal Diagrams 108

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Don’t wait until you need a story published, or until you want to be used as a source. Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Do the same thing for your social networks, and your other interactions. Get to know the press before you need something from them. It makes your client feel special.

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. Publishing videos?

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Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Whether or not it’s my choice — and in book publishing, there are other parties involved beyond just the writer — it’s just the wrong question to ask. It also happens to us Z-list bloggers as well. They left the CD in Europe. The dog ate the CD. Their husband took the CD to his work. You get the idea.

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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. It doesn’t end after you hit “publish.&# In other words, don’t show up in the social space only when you need a hand. Blogs must be marketed in order to be successful.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Publishing, consulting and regular life all kind of merge on the web and it is sometimes hard to know which hat you have on. When I talked to Gary about this, he mentioned that the people were the business, not the wine. I admire that. Chris is as charming as he is handsome. Reply wes conard October 20, 2009 at 2:34 am Nice post.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), hour (after a flat rate of $9.95

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Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 11, 2009

Social networks. The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. A soon-to-be-talked about new venture sent me on quest to explore what was happening with women and social networks. Ophra's Oprah's - online community.

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Communities Social Media Sports MySpace 49

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. I received no response and made sure that I published this blog post, thanks to Kelly.

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Social Media StumbleUpon Communities MySpace 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

As all conferences I’ve attended, it was a great one, and by far the best part was the smallness of the conference overall which really helped the networking efforts. Some of my favorite quotes (as liveblogged ) were quite memorable and include (with emphasis being mine): Q: Where ads are published, what would you trust more?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

10 Practical Twitter Tips for Publishers (Adam Sherk): Adam works with some of the biggest publishing media companies on search and social strategy, so his advice here is sound. The Power of Uniqueness: 19 Starting Points (Problogger): Darren Rowse writes about some great things that can set you apart from other bloggers.

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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

However, the lack of follow-through was unsettling enough that I am publishing this post. The first week of September was difficult for American cable network TLC. Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves.

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Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

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. Social networks are growing at record-breaking speeds.

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Sites Industry Blogger News 96

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Here are ten tips that will help you on your journey: Discover your brand A lot of people are rushing to get on social networks, and are forgetting to fill out their profiles, or what their purpose of participation is. You won’t be able to scale your brand on fifty social networks.

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Social Media Brands How To Social Networking 240

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Social Networking: Like Falling In Love. Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical).

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