Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. That’s why this is more of a message for large and not necessarily small brands. This is a well known brand, but yet they’re not building up their social media presence despite prominently advertising it on their website. Want to self promote?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

However, I believe Twitter’s ability to market easily comes from those who associate usernames with brands. Right now, brand awareness is the sole reason why people follow particular Twitter streams. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

And the more intricate your external efforts become, the more social, mobile, and interactive your website must become. Here are three examples of brands that appear to be taking this message to heart: Fandango.com Best-known as a portal for buying movie tickets online, the site is actually quite diverse in terms of its content offerings.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Facebook Page is a great way to use it for building brands, calling people to action, and/or build ideas. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. That’s why Mixx has a lot of potential.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Reply Louis Halpern December 1, 2009 at 6:17 am Brands should engage with their audience. But Apple is the brand everybody wants to be like so it is always worth having a look at what they’re doing. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

Moreover, whatever your brand is, it is very likely that there is chatter going on about it. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Are you looking for brand awareness or visibility, or are you looking for money? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Wouldn’t it be safer, for the sake of maintaining the integrity of your business name or your personal brand, to ask permission first? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Why should you do now, apologize later ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding what it means to be a social media expert. Now that the stay-at-home-moms (and dads) are finding their way to a five-figure Twitter follow count, they’re offering all types of services and branding themselves as all-round experts. I take it everywhere I go!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

First, some educational takeaways: Social media is the “new&# medium for businesses to communicate with consumers in a way that is interesting to them. Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# He explains that “Twitter allowed me to be social without having to be IRL.&# When I want to book, I just DM them and ask for the ‘social media rate.’ More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

Building my first online community 4. Keen branding choice with the logo. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Hiring some help 3.

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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

APRIL 2, 2008

I like the branding you are doing by embedding the logo throughout as well. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Glad I did.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

As someone who is required to monitor your brand, there will never be a day when all is quiet. That’s not really convincing social proof. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. Maybe it’s on a forum.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. Thankfully, you don’t have to go at social media marketing alone. Engagement in a process called brand evangelism is one beneficial strategy to get your brand known and to help spread your message. You’ll need this to proceed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Isn’t reputation management about promoting transparency to build trust in their brand? I just got the email newsletter and it’s kidding (in a self-mocking way) about it and really boosts their brand, imho. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). This is basic News Feed Optimization.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

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. I’ve already stated that I love apps built on the Digg API , and anyone with some programing know-how can build an excellent web-based or standalone utility.

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Social Media Content SEO Examples 180

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Twitter has a wide range of benefits from communicating with friends and families to building a brand for your business. Branding is Important Sometimes, little things make a huge difference.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

You actually need to involve yourself in the blog’s community, commenting and showing that at the minimum, you have a long term invested interest in the blog’s success, and not only when it’s beneficial for you. Social media is all about community, and that community exists whether you need them or not.

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Blogger Press Release Marketing Instant Messaging 132

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below. Lesson # 1 Personal Branding. Dan Schawbel , EMCs first social media specialist, returned to Bentley College to do a presentation about personal branding and social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Patience is required in building a community, seeing real results with monetization and building traffic. Some people are able to build a community but fail at monetizing their blogs. Some also build traffic but fail to build a community. We’re also offering new publishers a $50 bonus if they get at least 25,000 U.S.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

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. There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Since the Digg submission of my story was already buried , I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say. By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. Michael via Twitter ) [Today is] the day that Digg died. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. Tweet Spinner would make a good addition to an agency or big brand needing to have a little more control over Twitter. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Applications Review Statistics URL 179

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. It’s why Zappos is always the big Twitter brand awareness case study. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Call them cliques if you will. It’s just not me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Both are incredibly popular public facing success stories with very strong brands, traveling often to make public appearances at a variety of conferences and venues. Let’s explore their characteristics and see how you can apply them to build your business or personal brand. They are human.

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MySpace Consultant Yahoo StumbleUpon 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Thanks to brand new technologies that consistently and constantly claim our attention spans, thereby requiring us to shift our focus on a very regular basis, we’re no longer willing or able to sit still. The crux seems to be that you’re bored because social media has gotten too hard. But that point was inevitable, no?

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267