Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

They don’t read 20 blog posts and comments. I blog and comment too, however; 1. Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. It can be potentially huge for everyone involved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. Twitter as a news breaker. Still Learning December 19, 2009 at 5:07 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } Exeter Design April 6, 2010 at 8:34 pm Thanks for the article. Your mileage may vary.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. It’s really mostly about chance, and like I mentioned earlier in the comments, luck and timing. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Accept a New Normal When I talk about accepting a new normal , I’m talking about two different aspects of life. Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. There is a reason why Social media is called social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

It isn’t uncommon to see people sharing articles on FriendFeed, including all the images from the post, and then copying the entirety of the text into the comments section. I have earlier written about comment fragmentation and why it matters from an article author’s perspective. FriendFeed specifically is troubling.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example. Thanks, Lissy Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. izmantot soci?los

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Tagged as: competition , digg , hosting , Marketing , social media , web 2.0 , web hosting { 1 trackback } KickStartBlogging: - Social Marketing : Kick Start Blogging May 13, 2008 at 5:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Devindra July 8, 2007 at 10:51 pm Excellent piece Tamar! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

However, I’m not complaining about the new changes — at all. In fact, the new Digg pictures launch has been bunched up with other great features that I’m quite happy about. Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. Thanks guys. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. I don’t want anyone but the intended recipient to see shouts, for example.

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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. Beyond learning about your users, FriendFeed allows users to comment on content within the site itself. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. My only everyday social network is IM, though Orkut(which seems to be missing from a lot of lists) is the place which has all my school friends, even the ones who don’t know to use IM. And, can we please have a “Notify me of follow up comments&# plugin here?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Customer service as we all know is not just about putting issues right, it’s about ‘before, during and after’ the sale and I think this client is a prime example of many companies out there who do not openly demonstrate the value of the customer. Reply Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 8:58 am Thanks for commenting, Lesley.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. I really appreciate your comments!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

The aim of my little experiment was to test the assumption that search traffic was of a higher quality than social media traffic. Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. Reply Justin December 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm Well said!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Gloson : Firstly, you must be patient if you don’t get visitors immediately (I haven’t got my first comment until the fourth month I’ve been blogging!). COPPA laws protect children under the age of 13, and that’s why Ani’s blog, for example, is protected (by her mother’s request). Way to go Kids!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? 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. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Particularly re the silver bullet comment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. 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).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

I’d love to hear your thoughts about these particular cases in the comments. Now why is it that there are still naysayers in the comments? Honor is worth more than money… Reply Melanie Phung April 2, 2008 at 5:22 pm Very interesting discussion going on in the comments. What is more important to you? Why would they?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example. For me, social media is the loooong haul and not a brief campaign. That’s the definition of “played&# ,imo,and we are back to RNB’s excellent comment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

For example, by looking at ProBlogger, we are being told that the owner is not an amateur but a pro blogger. Let’s take Techipedia for example. For example, if I’m blogging to tell you the importance of traffic then I should also tell you how to get traffic in the same post. For example, my blog is three months old.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The most popular blogs, according to Technorati , maintain that consistency by posting more than once a day. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Based on some of the comments and emails I received at the time, a few of you were interested in how I collected the stats I did and how you could go about investigating your own niche further. In that particular post I looked at the green industry from the perspective of a blogger and shared some of my findings.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

For example, here is a recent tweet taken from Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile: “ @problogger bummer I’ll be there 1 week too early.&# Thanks so much for commenting, -Onibalusi Reply Randy Barnes September 8, 2010 at 11:15 pm. Thanks so much for commenting! Thanks a lot for commenting!

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. Instead of emailing a blogger to include your company’s service in a specific blog post that has already been in the public arena for three years, comment on the post. Great stuff!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive. These are: The number of friends and followers they have.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. Twitter) and social content sharing sites. Share this on Bebo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Social Media Alone Doesn’t Cut It Social media marketing alone is not enough. There’s a lot more to marketing than just being social. For example, your website, without a doubt, needs SEO. SEO and social media are two entirely different things. You can’t only write comments on forums.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The comments, as always, are yours. Style Sample Magazine.com June 15, 2010 at 8:33 am { 42 comments… read them below or add one } Hugo February 10, 2010 at 10:06 am I think that the biggest takeaway from this post for me is the understanding the mainstream media world and the blogger world are quickly becoming one and the same.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

link] fore example uses cliques to collectively create a more selective audience to hold a dialogue with. At first it took time to figure out what was happening there, but now having used it for a week it is so much more fun than twiiter and if I or a friend posts a blog post of mine, I get a great deal of hits and comments from Plurkers.

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