Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). Digg I blindly accept friend requests and rarely if ever pay attention to “shouts&#. being what it has become.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

by Tamar Weinberg on February 22, 2008 Share This is a guest post from Pierre Far, who recently launched a very cool program called Social Alerter which notifies you as soon as your website has a solid chance of hitting the Digg or del.icio.us Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community. If so, how?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

One-off campaigns can help drive viral success, but social media is not a “set it and forget it&# type of initiative. Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. MrBabyMan , Digg’s top user, was an unknown once.

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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

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. It took me 6 months to acquire a good amount of traffic and cultivate a community on my blog and the same goes for any new blogger. Glen amazes me with his blogging and web design skill and also his ability to make money and still bind the community.

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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.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

with any other Social media campaign,if the content or the product’s not strong theres no pint in taking up the campaign Reply Daniele Rossi February 7, 2008 at 11:22 am I use ester-c when I feel a cold coming on. Reply Linda February 14, 2008 at 11:36 pm I posted this on Digg. It’s well worth the read.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

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. 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.

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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. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

This will help a great deal in planning and managing successful marketing campaigns. There are other times when marketers may have to launch a multi-platform outreach campaign. Also, one story on the Digg home page does not an expert make. It just depends on the needs of the client. Others aren’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The easiest way to find these people is to find the communities that your users frequently visit, be it forums, Twitter, or other social networks. This task can be delegated to a community manager who corresponds directly with the evangelists and distributes the special perks. Spotting your brand ambassadors should not be too tricky.

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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. Reaching out to bloggers and online communities, it hit both the NY Times and Wall Street Journal in the first week of publication.

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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). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 27, 2010

While management needs to communicate objectives, messaging and guidelines for social media use, ultimately employees from different parts of the organization have to realize they are all working toward furthering the success of the company, and coordinate efforts to meet the needs of differing audiences (e.g., Microblogging (i.e.,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

The nuances related to how YOU can build your business further — with specific details related to a single campaign that has no relevancy to 95% of the others — are not going to be publicly shared, because that’s stuff that you need to figure out on your own. Social media is often addictive in some ways too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. If your business is already on the social web, you will need something to help you improve on your campaigns. You will be able to gather enough data from your own campaigns to help you improve your online marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. Social media is a continuous effort, not something that is only campaign-based.

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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. Perhaps Darren’s advice resonated with his readers?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

Weezer shows that they understand the community of addicted internet users. link] You’ll find a Digg button at the bottom (which I’m sure a tech geek like you will have no trouble using:) ). Feel free to give yoruself a Digg! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

Sit back and enjoy, and then play the accent game to see how an excellently-crafted viral marketing campaign can really help get people talking about you and your products. this particular campaign does seem to have succeeded wildly, the idea of giving ordinary people their 15 minutes of interweb fame is genius.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

In fact, in a test a colleague of mine ran with sponsored advertisements, the incentive-based campaign was much more successful than the original information-only campaign. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle. You usually do. So…thanks!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community. He also offers high quality tools, many of which are free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

For starters, with even a conservative estimate of the man-hours involved, I am quite sure that the campaign cost most than the $20,000 it was intended to raise – and probably generated 10 to 100 times as much PR value. My focus with this blog has always been community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. How to Measure Social Media ROI for Business : Aaron Uhrmacher explains the factors you must consider to see if your social media campaign has had an impact. Here are even more ways to measure ROI on your campaigns. Scared of Social Media?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As domain names and web hosting got cheaper and cheaper, it was easy for individuals to build communities that they loved and that would help like-minded folks meet each other. It’s not advisable for a company to promote a video campaign with a video that shows a typo in the company’s URL.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. Participate in my site’s community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

People are flocking to sites like Twitter and Facebook and other communities because they are online communities where they can learn from and hang out with their peers. The success of a social media marketing campaign strongly revolves around engagement. Twitter is a community and you’re a member of the congregation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Social media marketing is a tremendous challenge, especially now that the market has become saturated with experts who clearly think that bringing their Digg front page success means that they’ve just launched a successful consulting business and can immediately sell their services to the highest (lowest?) Much like SEO.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

As part of the Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish campaign by the Sears department store, I had the opportunity to participate in a shopping spree to help me or someone else realize our dreams. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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