Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

What amazes me is that Andrew, with no idea of where this was headed, took the initiative to build an extremely successful community. But more so, this quote from Andrew blew it away for me: [The most important thing that I have learned during this process was h]ow to treat my users. They’re Quizlet’s biggest asset.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. Taking someone into the office of your busy-at-work programmers or directly into your manufacturing plant to see the process of creation can be really fascinating from an outsider’s perspective. Don’t you want to know how crayons are made

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. If you’re emailing me on an address I don’t distribute except to a few friends and send your agency after that address, you better bet I will say something about the process. Have you read The New Community Rules ? Want to self promote? Engage in dialogue.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

DJ Waldow: I have Dug or I did Digged, good luck transcribing that, I did at, I had in the past, I guess here and there but you know I guess I’ve always gotten my news from, not as much from the community but, more from my network of friends in my own community. For me Digg was never that community for me. Eric: Yes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

My uncle knows a young girl from his community, a recent college graduate, who is looking for a social media job. It should definitely be assumed that if someone uses his Facebook account for both, for example, that there will be a mixture of comments that may not necessarily be personal. Call me Victoria from the example above.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

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. 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. izmantot soci?los

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That’s like finding a better way to punch people in the face&# is one of the more memorable examples of his outlook. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches. As you know, you’re my living example of how to write a blog.

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Kikolani

JULY 30, 2012

Take a look below to get a better idea of just where companies are with this process via this study from InSites Consulting and Marketing Profs : Most companies are still in the very early stages of taking this next step. In other words, much of the information is shared across different social sites. Why is this so important?

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

By way of example, I’d like to share with you nine people and how they describe themselves. Founder of the 12for12k Challenge, a community-driven social media charity initiative to connect globally and help locally. Community management. Communication: any medium. Headline : Principal, The Community Roundtable.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. His chronicle of an online study group at Ryerson University is a perfect example of the ramifications of widespread interconnectivity that society will be wrestling with into the future.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

For example, Digg has finally acknowledged that productivity and lifehack websites deserve a section of their own, so they launched a “Lifestyle&# section with its more universal taxonomy. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Can we re-examine the online learning experience and design a set of tools which more fully support the learning process and are more closely matched to the needs of individual learners? Individual examples of PLE-like tools, and courses which utilise web 2.0 The Discussions. There was an acknowledgement that the Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. For example, garnering a better understanding of customer retention might be the goal of a project, not checking off pages and pages of detailed requirements. Absolutely.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The result is less formal communication (i.e. Also there is more mobility between school, the workplace, and the community (or communities). For example, IM and texting requires short sentences and abbreviated speech in order for there to be timely feedback between the writer and reader.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Sound off in the comments, and maybe we’ll put together another post with great examples. Allowing for and creating communities. clintonbon Love the example you put forth, great post! How are you integrating social media into other programs? Engaging people in their passions all helps make the business more meaningful.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. From what I've seen anywhere from 5-10% is a pretty decent (example: listed 500 times and have 10,000 followers) number to aim for. It also continues to be a reliable conduit for new visitors here at Convince & Convert.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. I haven't used it, but looks interesting [link] [link] Meylah Community Anyone use NutshellMail? If yes, what do you think?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

The goal, if I understand you correctly, is not to help everyone, but to make everyone feel like they’re being helped (and hopefully helping some people in the process). 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features. In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? So, I peeked at YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

.&# Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms. Just a thought.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Myspace also. Terrific job at crystallizing the thought process that needs to occur instead of just signing up for FB and Twitter and “going for it.&# Terrific job at crystallizing the thought process that needs to occur instead of just signing up for FB and Twitter and “going for it.&# Because tools will change.

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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. Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc. A good example of a company’s CSR successes is Target® with its long-standing commitment to schools and education. link] ??????? ?????????????CSR??PR?????Target??P&G??facebook???????????SNS??????????????????

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

I’ve seen Intellipedia , TSA’s Evolution of Security blog , DoDLive , the DoD’s Blogger’s Roundtable , FEMA’s YouTube channel , GovLoop , and many other examples of “Government 2.0.&# I’ve also seen plenty of failed blogs, dormant wikis, and other failed attempts at using social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

When this process occurs two page views are counted instead of one, thereby lowering the bounce rate. And if this post isn’t proof enough for you, check out Steven’s post relating to the quality of forum traffic , which often have even tighter knit communities than Sphinn.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

I will share my answer with you here in case you are working through the same thought process. It depends on the goals the firm and attorneys have identified because of going through a thorough process of strategic marketing planning. It depends on the messages that need to be communicated to those audiences.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. Why not encourage the spread of goodwill?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

So, obviously the key players, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and MySpace made it onto the list of networks that they researched. I mean, there are so many examples of this. The Olympics, Rule 40 – if that’s not the classic example of digital illiteracy in the modern day I don’t know what is.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. “Who Should I Know&# for example, is a relevant and important question that needs to be better answered.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. I imagine social media will go through the same process of moving from one executed campaign to a thoughtful, consistently measured line item investment.

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