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. 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

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. The community had to react.

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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. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web.

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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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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

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). Lost a few in the process but was pleased when only one dropped me ?!

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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 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. It also reminds you that Facebook is one of their social destinations on the web, but that you might be interested in their YouTube page. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. I know I would.)

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

RT @impactmax: Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps – Convince & Convert [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] janetrex (Janet Rex) Twitter Comment Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps @jaybaer [link to post] Includes slides and worksheets. Thanks for the thoughts and processes.

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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

JULY 8, 2008

The scope of marketing needs to be broadened in view of the new dynamics that have employees, customers and prospects engaged in conversations – horizontally, peer to peer, in some cases even in co-opetition situations. That said, such a broad determination means you can be a social media marketer and not know it.

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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

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Social media? It’s surprising to see how few people actually do it!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Side note: great interview with Wesch here ).

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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. Social media is all about community, and that community exists whether you need them or not. Why not get acquainted with the community now and before it’s too late?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Another example. Customer Support. Not at all.

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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.&# I’ve seen internet marketers who sell products designed to help accounts gain hundreds of followers, which defeats the process of engaging an audience with outstanding content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing 7 Truths About Social Media Marketing by Tamar Weinberg on April 8, 2010 Share Even though social media isn’t new to many of us, the world is waking up to this new shiny toy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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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. Reply Tamar Weinberg February 16, 2010 at 1:01 pm Yup, you’re the perfect example for this, Michael. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook. Call them cliques if you will. Many don’t overlap.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Link Building : Part of a search engine marketing strategy includes the process of building relevant links to your website. Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. comprehensive social media marketing training there is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. How many of these new tactics have you adopted? This is a post that looks at some of the high performers and gives examples on how you can do the same. This post explains the process of how to think like your customer.

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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. 2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. , also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Facebook helps people connect and communicate more efficiently. One example of this is that we just launched internationally: Facebook was always available for people to use but only in English. We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

For example, somebody just entering the workforce. This eventually got me to some sites that maintained directories of these vendors, but it was still a lengthy process from there to get to a short-list. social networking. social media. social news. social networks. When LinkedIn Wont Work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Natural language processing : search engines should begin to understand documents stored online. Maybe that’s a bad example. 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

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Customize Your Tab With FBML Beyond simple HTML you can also enter very simple FBML tags to simplify some of the process. Here’s an example of a simple tab I set up: Welcome! Everyone’s “home&# page is unique to them based on their news feed. All the header stuff is taken care of for you. My name is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. He currently serves as the community guy at Building 43.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point. I had a good reason to base this on a summer camp example. Of course not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : The SEO Success Pyramid : Matt McGee talks about the process of making great websites. Scared of Social Media? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. But “social media marketing expert?&# Every post is a winner! You May Already be Pro!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Build your brand by association By working for brand names, you gain more credibility in the process. For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. Reply Zainul Franciscus April 2, 2010 at 9:18 am My friend Sarah joins several community.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

There are more quotes, examples and data excerpts in this post than any other I have written. Article clustering is basically this: They write a huge piece on a hot news item, and constantly use that same information whenever they cover the story again. This is my attempt to change that. Now it’s time to link it all together.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Why Starting A Business Can Be A Lonely Path And What You Can Do About It – The hardest part about running our online store was overcoming the loneliness of the entire process. But often there is far too much effort placed into the process without sufficient return. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

In fact, “perfection&# in SEO is an impossibility since SEO is an ongoing process. I agree with your assessment of the differences between SEO and Social Media Marketing. I also appreciate your characterization of both as ongoing processes (social media is not an event). Why, then, is SEO really easier?

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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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