Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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. We almost have to create our own personal social media policy. Your post offers good suggestions – far better than starting a support group. When she found out I was his niece, she became ecstatic. Thanks Deb!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more. What tasks are more important to developing a popular community versus developing a popular blog?

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

From building business to getting a straight answer, social networking sites offer up a wide-ranging community. And special-interest groups on another social networking site called Ning are good places to look for people with specialized technical skills, such as programming using relatively obscure languages like Ruby, he adds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. 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

BMJ Group blogs. Search BMJ blog: You dont need to be signed in to read BMJ Group Blogs, but you can register here to receive updates about other BMJ Group products and services via our Group site. 10 Jun, 08 | by BMJ Group. This group could appreciate the value of Web 2.0 Search the BMJ. BMJ Journals.

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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

MAY 12, 2010

Calls to Action Have Benefits For starters, leveraging your primary site and email communications is by far the easiest way to reach your existing consumer base, since they are the ones that typically spend the most time visiting your site and reading the emails you send them. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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. I just think that the *active* cruise community is definitely a bit disappointed.

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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). First, the mode of communication and the way in which messages are crafted (rhetoric) need to be analyzed. As a result, these new technologies must be integrated into the system.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves. I actually found Digg’s community to be more open and accepting than Reddit’s, but to be fair I probably approached Reddit in the wrong way. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

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. Roger Smith Hotel also teaches us another thing: you should take advantage of your market by giving them opportunities exclusive to their communications channel. izmantot soci?los

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Earlier this month, I wrote a blog post about how you cannot be a participant of a community without understanding the community members therein. It’s so new that the community is being created right now as we speak. And for that reason, you should join–now. That’s why Mixx has a lot of potential. So why Mixx?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Legislation & Public Policy. Before creating an online community of practice (COP), Michael Behounek, KM director for $1.25 Behounek once created a community to devise performance enhancements for a particular 2,000-horsepower pump used in the companys oil refineries. That gave us fertile ground to kick off the community.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Social media and government started not with some policy or memo from the senior leadership, but from regular people sitting in a cubicle who saw an opportunity and decided to do something about it. They eventually changed the policy. Becoming part of the community and collaborating is a huge piece of successful social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d love to befriend everyone or even specify groups of friends to which I’d subscribe so that I can get updates delivered to my RSS reader (versus other updates that I would check on a more infrequent basis), though for the time being, the team has not worked that out. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Will they freely submit to such structured information environments as those provided by SAP and Oracle, content and knowledge management systems, and communication by email? Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? Blog Policy. Future of Communities.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies. More and more I'm seeing sentiments like: 'Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies.&# These Web-based “apps&# can then be bookmarked on the iphone and run like a normal iphone app. This is a big deal.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. Not just being talked about but be an active voice in the community. In a sense, they can become part of the community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Highlight the company’s long-term commitment and that of its supporters and partners.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

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. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. 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).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Take a look at the Social Media Responsibilities Worksheet we use at the Flint Group. link] Joe Polidoro As you move from social media #policy to #plan, a good start here [link] [link] Juan David Martinez RT @tcreativo: En #SocialMedia hay que activar fans, no coleccionar nombres [link] #estrategia [link] M. Claudia Licona C.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. You must take the time to build a cross-functional team in your organization, and figure out your policies and procedures. How can I help you?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. After all, the full disclosure is that I am the community and marketing director of Mashable. Great post!

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Myspace also. Think out a policy and develop a strategy! [.] link] Jason Baer in Fargo « Flint Group Blog [.] link] Social Media Without the Trial and T-error: 4 Steps | Flint Group Blog [.] Myspace also. Because tools will change. They always do. There was a time when Netscape seemed invincible. Yahoo, too.

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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. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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