Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I remember taking classes, buying flashcards , and doing whatever it took to have a decent understanding of large words to score well on the SAT. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. Since FriendFeed aggregates numerous social networks, it can give you a lot more information about its users, especially with regards to how and when they engage with online content. FriendFeed takes this idea and goes a step further. What content are they sharing?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

It feels like every day there’s a new post about Plurk, Twitter, or some new micro-blogging platform. They’re always heralded as the next big social media hit , the best on the web, or something killer. Twitter: API – an open API is so important. The truth is, they’re not.

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Microblogging API MySpace Yahoo 102

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? From Blogs to Twitter and everywhere in between. Oh the benefits of monitoring a Twitter feed. Leave a comment!

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List Social Media StumbleUpon Blogosphere 85

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

I spoke with Brian Simpson, Director of Social Hospitality, for more insights into how social media became an asset for Roger Smith, and I learned some great things. Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# Two of my friends were too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

With 1,200 users terminated at once, I’m not sure people can easily buy that. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. Time will only tell.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

The reason is that people didn’t have aggregate power: they were individual voices that a news channel or a company can choose to ignore. The only effective feedback mechanism was the free market: people choose to buy something else, if the option existed. TV media buys are based on people picking what was on TV.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Social media. Whether youre socializing on Facebook , updating Twitter , or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia , social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Lesson # 2 Know What Web 2.0 Lesson #7 Learn to Twitter.

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Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Frank Lee shares a Free Gift to guide you step-by-step to “Breakthrough Article Marketing&# – simply visit his site today and discover how you too can generate loads of free buying traffic using a simple 5 step unique article writing method in his Internet Marketing Systems. Answers Yahoo!

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Maybe it’s on Twitter. If this is your first time diving in the social media waters, it’s going to be difficult to make a splash. You’ll be creating that Twitter account for the first time, and you’ll have to grow followers. That’s not really convincing social proof. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Marketing Digg Consultant 221

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic. Twitter Twitter, the Most Important Website Since Google (97th Floor): Yes, Twitter is that important.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Why Nobody Should Buy Digg Why Nobody Should Buy Digg by Tamar Weinberg on December 20, 2007 Share It hasn’t even been a week and my once positive outlook of Digg has come to a sour end.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Personal > Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on February 6, 2008 Share Awhile ago, I used Twitter to talk about one of my favorite cold remedy vitamins, Airborne.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

I know the economy has hit a lot of people in different ways but so many “guru’s&# are coming out of the woodwork it reminds me of the great influx of “web designers&# in the early 90′s. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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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. Answers Yahoo!

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. Michael via Twitter ) [Today is] the day that Digg died. As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me.

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Digg MySpace Upcoming Reddit 102

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

JULY 8, 2008

So, in order to be a good social media marketer, in my opinion, you should understand the tools you’re using and the communities to which you are marketing, be they ones that surround the tool itself (Twitter users) or subject matters within a certain tool (FriendFeed room about, say, cell phones.).

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). 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). Buy something, get something. You can elect to do this one of two ways.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Lacy : When you compare Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, I think that fewer companies are as successful in the Web 2.0 There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. Lacy : Everyone wants to write about Web 2.0 I think you’re distinct from the rest of the web 2.0

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Web 2.0 MySpace Applications Microsoft 104

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

No need to buy John Reeses’ new product that will set you back $2k. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo!

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Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. Some people think social media is just fun. If you have your brand name as your Twitter handle and a portrait photo of you on your profile, you are getting it all wrong.

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Books Take Time to Write Last week, a Twitter user asked a really blunt but surprising question about how to download my book (legally) for free. Consequently, I got chewed out both on Twitter and following that on her own blog, telling me that I should have responded nicely and recommended the library. You get the idea.

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Links are just one currency of the web. Yup, you can’t just chat with people on Twitter and broadcast on Facebook. Abuse is bound to happen in any area that lends itself to marketing potential – should we drop it just because it’s being flooded by newbies that scream buy from me? Thanks James!

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

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. I found your article via Lisa Barone on Twitter.) How do they find work?

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Their goal is to send press pitches, not to buy ads on your site. If a blogger outreach consultant or social media agency emails you a story pitch, read their signature. Most PR people aren’t in a position to buy ads. Rule #4: This could be the start of something big. I don’t think so.

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Blogger Press Release Advertising Review 177

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Monier suggests that it could be flawed, however, as in describing a “diamond:&# what if a baseball enthusiast chooses to buy his wife a nice piece of jewelry? I met a few new faces this time around, including Twitter buds Adam Audette and Guliz Sicotte. Personalization : presenting results based on past activity.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

She did receive many gifts, and emails circulated frequently taking up collections: “We want to fill her room with flowers, buy her a digital camera, a scanner, send her to Disney World&#. People hustling others on social media for a couple of dollars. Her name sounds familiar but maybe that’s just from Plurk or Twitter.

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Social Media StumbleUpon Communities MySpace 104

Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. These men are indeed using Twitter to rewire and reorient the Web.

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Twitter B2B Crowdsourcing Hubspot 196

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

“How much could I buy this for?&# Reply Pearl January 20, 2008 at 10:42 am Hi Tamar – I guess I never saw this entry before and just read about it on twitter today. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Wow, it hurts when they’re gone. Answers Yahoo!

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MySpace Consultant Yahoo StumbleUpon 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

Moreover, allowing users to “try before they buy&# was incredibly clever and keeps the hype strong. and how to market with the different mindset of the &# new&# Internet. and how to market with the different mindset of the &# new&# Internet. Will social interaction and networking really make the web different?

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Facebook Web 2.0 MySpace API 111

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Top 10 Reasons Why Great Content Fails on Social Media : In case you’re still emphasizing submissions on social sites, here’s why your content … uh, appears to suck. How to Commit Social Media Suicide : Some people don’t get social media. Twitter Goes Mainstream : More and more people are using it.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

The widespread adoption of social media has caused for hordes of “experts&# to suddenly come into town assuming that they can totally own this niche. These new “Internet Marketers&# take Twitter by storm, using automated Twitter tools in abundance that give them the true appearance of expertise.

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Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251