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

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media experts realise that you can’t control what people say about you online, but you can continue to focus on putting out your best work possible, whatever your medium can be. Brewer February 2, 2010 at 11:45 am I’ve followed a few listed experts, but passed on tons more who don’t seem to “walk the walk.&#

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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

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

AUGUST 25, 2010

Just do it while giving back to the community as well. Meanwhile, this agency contracted one of the biggest social media rockstars in the space, a guy who has a stellar social media record. Yet he’s also the reason why I was on this agency’s distribution list using an email address I don’t publicize.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Are you submitting a news story? If it’s a news story, you can even choose a thumbnail (that will appear on the upcoming list or on the top right corner) if Digg is able to locate one for you. Here are four news stories on Digg’s upcoming list with and without thumbnails. Is it an image? Is it a video?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Reply Jane December 10, 2007 at 2:45 pm You make a point to specify that your links are in no particular order, but it pleases me that I’m the first Mozzer listed. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Take that, Becs!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

It’s easy, with over 750,000 journalists listed in the Cision database, to compose an email without regard for who the person is and to make an immediate decision to hit the “send&# button without actually spending 5 minutes on the blogger’s website and discovering what tickles their fancy. “It works,&# he says.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

Some even boast high rankings and good sized communities. Ben’s blog, which covers entrepreneurship and social media, is wonderful despite him blogging for less than a year (he started shortly after his 16th birthday!). What Advice Can You Give to New Bloggers? Glen , too, got an early start. Adora Svitak is amazing.

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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. Many companies that have not embraced social media marketing often do so because of the fear of an uncontrolled message.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

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). I used to have over 200 friends (mostly musicians and blind friend acceptance requests) but I truncated the list (due to spam, primarily) to 46.

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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

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. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Here’s a feature’s list, broken down by features that each service already contains: Plurk: Karma – an awesome feature that keeps people engaged, and gives users a goal. The main thing that seems missing from Plurk is the community and visibility a lot of other sites have attracted.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Use headings, subheadings, bullets and lists to break up the monotony, and make your text easier to scan through. Frank also runs a list building program that will easily help you build your email subscribers. 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 28, 2010

I’ve talked briefly about great lists. Now I’m going to talk a bit more about six solid foundations upon which you can build viral content and I’ll illustrate how they’re used in today’s social media. The Motherload of Lists Let’s face it. People like lists.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s my list for 2008. Despite the changing landscape, the articles I list here are typically those that I feel are “timeless&# in that they could be referenced in the future and still have utility. Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

With Tweet Spinner, you get a DM archive listed in an easy-to-read page that is searchable (via Ctrl+F on your keyboard; additional search facilities would be useful for accounts with thousands of DMs). You might also want to see that they are future upstanding members of the community. You can choose to delete spam DMs or all DMs.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Your Status Matters Twitter is not just any kind of social networking site. If you take a look at the ten people listed above, you will notice that all of them are celebrities. You will notice that almost all the top Twitter users listed above hardly follow many people. It has an algorithm that favors your status.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

In the last few years, I’ve taken the liberty of doing more than just blogging — I’ve been trying to get to know the people who have inspired me most (and that list isn’t cumulative!). In the end, the bond between those immersed in the social media sphere is a bond that exists nowhere else.

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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. 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). What if you want to offer 10% off?

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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

JANUARY 12, 2010

There were no business colleagues on my friends list. These are friends who have no direct ties to the industry, but in using social networks, we’ve formed close bonds and friendships. I also consider bloggers who have forged real-life relationships with me to have connected via social media. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Since the Digg submission of my story was already buried , I sincerely hope that Digg listens to what their community members have to say. By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. They trying to drive us away from our friends list? social networking site.

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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. Well, 13-year-old Reddit genius Adam Fuhrer provides his thoughts. This kid is awesome.)

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

To get a feel for what students are studying in Social Media U, you only need to do a web search because many of the students arent just learning how to, theyre blogging about it too. Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below. social media.

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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? Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

When dealing with emotions, psychology, anthropology, sociology, among other disciplines, you’re bound to make “mistakes&# as you attempt to understand demographics and communities and learn about who will be receptive to what. But … well, he’s done with social media, essentially. He’s not alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

He is extremely devoted to empowering individuals and companies about marketing, networking, reciprocity, and social media. 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

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 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

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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. Using varied keyword targeting lists per username might be a good idea; that way, you’re likely to get a diverse following. 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 24, 2008

One friend was in Digg’s top 40 submitter list and was an extremely loyal and dedicated user. The other friend was a new but very “religious&# user. In other words, they don’t give a damn about the community and they seemed to have moved on — perhaps completely. They forgot about the community.

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