Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show). 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

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! You got super lucky!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Have you read The New Community Rules ? It is similar to the education I hear going on about length of time to get results via organic SEO. I’m no geek but the whole social media phenomonen is fascinating and I’m looking forward to seeing where it all goes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I applaud your efforts to educate those who inhabit the social web. What seems to be overlooked by self-proclaimed “social media experts&# is the social aspect of the undertaking, which is all about communication and interaction. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl!

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MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers.

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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. Here’s a tip for parents who wants to steer their children away form games and into educational activities as such as writing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

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. This is especially true of other social networks, especially ones where you were originally untrusted. Why leave that to chance.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] unmarketing Thanks a lot Jay. Seriously honored to be on here.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube. link] Jay Baer Thanks for the comment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

If you value your company’s survival, it is imperative that you educate those who respond on your company’s behalf to bear in mind that people are publicizing their interactions. 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

JULY 15, 2010

I think we should write for an educated audience but that doesn’t mean using the full extent of our vocabulary. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 19% seek customer support.

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APRIL 13, 2010

People who have educated, inspired, engaged, supported us. People who have educated, inspire… [link] [link] kelvin lee The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life [link] [link] Jim Weldon The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All Tons of applicability for social networking. All of us have influences.

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Our job is to educate a marketplace to be objective driven.’What At the end of the day however, does it matter? You can call it ButterCRM Frosting for all I care.

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JUNE 11, 2010

Amber is Director of Community for Radian6 , co-proprietor of the influential Brass Tack Thinking blog (formerly Altitude Branding), a cool mom, a motivating force, and a hell of a flautist). DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow As I wrote on Brass Tack Thinking, I have the chills. is my vote.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. I'd like to see PRSA take an even more aggressive role in educating the public about PR. I'd like to see PRSA take an even more aggressive role in educating the public about PR. Does that make sense?

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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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JUNE 22, 2010

Never Heard Of It This is of course a situation that is most acute in B2B, where White Horse found that 60% of companies either have low executive interest in social media, or have modest interest but a lack of education. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

By taking a proactive stance about a flaw you have within your product offering, your constituents would be better educated about the possible risks, and chances are, these negative reports about your product would not have reached the Internet anyway because the warnings would have been staring the consumers down in the face.

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JUNE 7, 2010

The details of his somewhat haphazard education at Harvard, and his kismet kissed co-founding of LinkExchange (ultimately sold to Microsoft for $265 million) are downright fascinating. This is the overarching theme of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness, a Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. See you there.

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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 work with the Social Network Team at my job, so your advice comes in handy. COLOURlovers has color palettes and trends. How do you fold that shirt so neatly?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. Rebecca Kelley , Search Marketing and Social Media Consultant : A social media marketer needs to be an active participant in the social media sphere.

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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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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MARCH 22, 2010

I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. The game is going to change in a big way very soon.

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MAY 26, 2010

You are definitely an old fogie – educate yourself [link] [link] Kate Brodock 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media (convince and convert) [link] [link] BTCustomerstreet #my Awesome 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media – [link] #BTCustomerstreet [link] jaybaer It will. That's all. Just compliments.

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JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this? Why is this?

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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. He also offers high quality tools, many of which are free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Few took the opportunity to look beyond the textbook and make the educational experience an enriching one. 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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] [link] Augure.com WORTH A READ: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps [link] [link] Riitta Lumme-Tuomala RT @jaybaer: Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [link] Interesting and educating. link] Riitta Lumme-Tuomala RT @jaybaer: Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [link] Interesting and educating.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Social Conversation a Myth?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I’m sorry that there are jerk-oids who don’t appreciate what you have learned or the fact that you are educating so many people, most of the time free of charge. The onus to defend our industry and to communicate our value is on us. Bad news for everybody. That’s really what prompted this blog post. You usually do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Social media? Face to face networking can help do that. Read a lot.

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