Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. The big catch: Epic Change is not a large company at all. Why social media?

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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

JANUARY 11, 2012

After taking the social media plunge, companies quickly discover that it is vastly more complicated and time-consuming than they thought. But companies must avoid a panicky response, because hiring a social media marketing (SMM) partner requires careful study. This is a guest post by Brad Shorr. The normal response is, HELP!

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Social Media How To Marketing Syndication 168

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 8, 2012

More often than not, you’re working as part of a team – whether it’s a project team or your company as a whole – and teams should always work together. There’s no point in working alone when you’re a part of a team. What position were you hoping to attain when you started with the company?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. It becomes a collective effort – Crowdsourcing also makes people feel like this is a team effort that not just one person is the most important piece to the puzzle. Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 17, 2012

If you have the skills in your team, you can produce and edit a video yourself. If not, there are video production companies who can do it for you and not necessarily at a killer expense. A credit card company got a 10% increase on take up for a corporate card. Create your video. Do your research. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

It would be advisable to understand the life cycle stage of the social media life cycle to get maximum efficiency out of the efforts made by their social media marketing and outreach teams. Varghese is the CEO of Social Media Outsourcing company Bobtweets.com , a social media consultant, and author of the blog www.twitterblogpost.com.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

I once worked for a company that had been kicked off eBay and Amazon for bad customer service (not my fault, honest!). In the old days before the Internet, angry consumers had little recourse if they were mistreated by a company. These days, one bad customer experience is all it takes to destroy your company’s good reputation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# It is an open community of creative and passionate people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 20, 2010

A member of my religious community disappeared. In September 2006, after Facebook had nearly 10 million members, the News Feed was announced, which the team had been working on for almost a year. Should it be governmental or should it be managed by a private company? He had a large family who cared deeply about him.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 17, 2011

As both an in-house team leader and consultant, he has used sophisticated analysis to optimize the social media marketing efforts of companies and brands including IBM, Monster, Porter Novelli, WCG, Gillette, Pfizer, Warner Brothers, Laughing Cow, The New York Times, and Havana Central. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Here are three cases that were blown way out of proportion but could have been handled a lot better if the companies thought of the consequences before acting. There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

For example, if you wanted to research historical information, like to learn what year World War 2 ended; or if you wanted to find out how many games your favorite professional team won last year, a traditional search engine will get you this information. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

4 Jobs I’ve Had Right after college, I worked for a few months in tech support at a forex company in the Empire State Building. Building my first online community 4. Interviewed a roller derby team I’m not tagging anyone because the links would take too much time. The birth of my daughter (May 6th due date) 2.

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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). Granted, some companies use MySpace quite efficiently , but I feel that it targets a different demographic.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. As such, it’s something that I really think the digg team should rethink, especially as the quality of stories decline.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Brand evangelism is a word of mouth marketing tactic in which the ardent supporters of your service or product feel so passionately about your offerings that they act as unofficial spokespeople on your company’s behalf. They are cheerleaders on the sidelines and they’re rooting for your team.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 3, 2012

It captures an expanded spectrum of values and criteria for measuring organizational (and societal) success: economic, ecological, and social, and makes a case for companies to account for the full cost and impact of doing business. A TBL company seeks to benefit many constituencies because of interdependency, not exploit them.

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Social Media Energy Cost Communities 150

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

People do not want to hear from companies as represented by marketers, they want to hear from other people. These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. Others aren’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

Marketing type folk, especially those representing a company’s service or product offerings, turn to blogs and ask to be mentioned in the blog. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Back then, companies who were engaged were genuinely involved because they wanted to build strong valuable relationships. Just like “social media experts&# want more freebies, so too, consumers expect more of the companies using this space. After all, the companies are intruding on their turf unannounced.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

For a big company account, it’s difficult to actually engage all day long (and all week long, especially if you’re a 9-5 shop). You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. If you’re still having trouble, feel free to reach out to the Tweet Spinner team directly.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Tell a Story : The stories surrounding your company or organization are the only things that differentiate you from your competitors. Customer testimonial videos are the best way to showcase the kind of exciting, high praise that companies are seldom willing to or able to give themselves. Corporate story. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Reply Todd Mintz July 29, 2010 at 1:40 pm If I think the person is just after free information, I give off a “skunk smell&# sorta vibe…it usually scares them away : ) Though I’m a bit of a sucker for a free meal (if I like the company I’m with)… Reply Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 1:45 pm LOL, I do hear you.

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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. (Of And get your account started and active immediately.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

A lot of the focus as of late is how we as a company has grown. Facebook helps people connect and communicate more efficiently. We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. As a company? Tell us about how it has evolved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 24, 2012

Flood these sites and accounts with as much content as you’re able to produce — whether it’s information about your company, testimonials, positive reviews, or whatever else. He leads the team at www.reputationchanger.com. [ Sign up for all of the social media accounts you can. Like this post?

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Review Hotels Reputation Construction 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2010

There’s more to be done, such as listening to your community and actually speaking amongst them (and not just at them). Building these strong relationships gives users a renewed faith in your company and causes them to help be your vocal advocates. If you empower your customers, they can be your unofficial brand ambassadors.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Bloggers like Valeria Maltoni of Conversation Agent , who don’t have a team of bloggers at arm’s length, offer content on a very regular basis (in Valeria’s case, 6 days a week). By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. Better yet, having multiple employees at your company engage in Twitter can also help further your company goals. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Top 10 Attributes of a Successful Blogger : If you like writing, have good grammar skills, are creative, and have an entrepreneurial spirit, you might make a great blogger for yourself or your company! Local Online Marketing.

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Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I work with many teams on many different projects. A company I work with recently hired a new person, and she told me that we emailed once before at her old job. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

There was a hostage situation at the parent company, Discovery Communications, on the first of the month. The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. However, many of those companies are still gripping onto the traditional roles of an earlier era.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Less than a year later, she was sent packing up her desk, a casualty of a company that jumped into that shiny toy syndrome that people call social media. Any job descriptions and statements of work do not have a place without an itemized list of desired outcomes that benefit the company line. Manage and grow our fan base on Facebook.

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