Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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Poor Social Responsiveness Risks Tarnishing a Brand’s Image

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

While smaller companies will struggle to maintain the level of content creation that large corporations with extensive marketing budgets can, they are at no significant disadvantage when it comes to using social media for community building and customer service. Let us know in the comments. Like this post?

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Such was the case for this Digg story , which compared multiple web hosting companies and watched as these hosts handled the traffic spikes that resulted from the Digg effect. Note how I bolded a specific term: web hosting. Seek out communities that address the needs that your company also addresses.

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20 Ways to Cultivate Brand Unawareness in Social Media

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Yet another deal related issue: if you hit your community with a different offer every day, you run not only the risk of annoying them, but also of confusing them. If you tell your Facebook fans you’ll host weekly Q&A sessions on your page, don’t stop after one week. Here’s how not to do it. Every day is a new deal. Like this post?

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10 Community Manager Responsibilities that Don't Involve Twitter.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

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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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post from Shevonne Polastre, who wrote this article on behalf of TopHost.Gr , a Greek web host that offers shared hosting. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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13 Characteristics Of Successful Digital Schmoozers

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It might be retweeting someone’s question about the best place to host a web video or answering the question if you know yourself. One thing that worked personally was hosting RISE lunches in my hometown of St. He hosts RISE, a web show for entrepreneurs featuring unique interviews & advice, and The Rise To The Top TV show on ABC.

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

A member of my religious community disappeared. Today, primarily thanks to Facebook and other online community services, we live a more public lifestyle, marrying our personal and professional selves (whether or not we want to) in our online presences. He eventually resurfaced and was said to be in good physical health. Like this post?

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