Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

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. Crowdsourcing has become more and more popular with private companies, non-profit organizations, and even government agencies. web sites, images, videos, etc.)

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Crowdsourcing scribd Ustream Social Media 192

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. 4: Online Driven Companies – Social media can be used to drive traffic to online websites. Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Yahoo Discount Training 164

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? As small companies with limited budgets, nonprofits may feel that they are unable to dive into the wide world of social media. The big catch: Epic Change is not a large company at all. Answers Yahoo!

Social Media 172

Social Media Case Study MySpace Yahoo 172

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

If it was a Comcast product, you’d get a near immediate response from Frank Eliason , the company’s Director of Digital Care. It can instill faith that your customers have in your company. It can make all the difference in nurturing a positive perception of your company. Empower them.

Apple 154

Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

account, and a full, multi-channel viral contest supported by both offline and online media assets, to drive awareness and potential consumers to a fully socialized micro site. That resulted in a lot of potential customers leaving the site and never getting around to taking a tour of the spa facilities.

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

Intranet 2.0. 3rd party services are usually owned by the individual not the company. a companys success in content management is inversely proportional to the amount of information that is exchanged over email.â?? For example, MySpace grew by 609% in one year, from just under 3.5 Internal Communications. Multimedia.

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Sharepoint Wiki Web 2.0 Class 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2009

It’s incredibly easy for someone to put up a web page and show how much they like or dislike a company. You’ll get exposure to case studies of companies that do this well and review cases of companies where listening severe impacted the effectiveness of marketing campaigns. It doesn’t end there, though.

Communities 170

Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo 170

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

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. The issue at hand is not the fact that the company was virtually unknown.

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Social Media Digg Brands Marketing 100

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.

Newsletter 144

Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Reply Eddie Gear October 7, 2010 at 9:43 pm I can come across so many companies that do not even brand them selves in the fear of being considered as SPAM. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

Brands 236

Brands Handbook MySpace Construction 236

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). Answers Yahoo! © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Twitter Microblogging MySpace Yahoo 131

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. This may be nothing more than a refresher course in the Captain Obvious department but even the savviest of companies is still missing the boat. A lot of big companies I try to engage with don’t want to talk back.

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Social Media Engagement Forums Policies 272

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

When you search “Tiger Woods” on a traditional search engine, you will get results which include news stories from major media outlets, links to Wikipedia and espn.com, and Tiger’s official site which happens to be TigerWoods.com. This is a new type of search, one which gives you a window into the public’s thoughts – in real time.

Engineering 142

Engineering Wikipedia MySpace Yahoo 142

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. loved the will farrell piece–I always meant to check out his site, and hadn’t until now. Answers Yahoo!

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

Social Media 153

Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

That said, if you are a large company, it could take you 3-4 months just to coordinate calendars to get all the right people gathered! 9) Most companies have “hearing systems&# not “listening systems.&# Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

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Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

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. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! I guess I shouldn’t be surprised though, misery loves company right? Consider billboards. Answers Yahoo!

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Meme Digg Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Despite the title of the post, having worked as the social media manager for Fortune 500 companies, and a lot of knowledge here being totally personal, I do not think of myself as an expert. He told me that my site was committing 3 Cardinal Sins and it was holding my ranking back and he could help me. great site! Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Influencer MySpace Consultant 229

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

My company has clients across the federal government, and I could get a meeting with pretty much any of them just by saying that I lead our social media practice and I’d like to discuss how their organization could take advantage of social media. They prefer static Web sites that people must visit.

Gov 2.0 93

Gov 2.0 Web 2.0 Wiki Policies 93

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

4 Jobs I’ve Had Right after college, I worked for a few months in tech support at a forex company in the Empire State Building. I dabble in social media sites, particularly Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon. The other site? I then worked for several months prior to my marriage as a private investigator. Not so much.

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Meme Blogger StumbleUpon MySpace 100

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. It’s the same company that did the net promoter scores that kind of come up with a social media score that’s kind of parallel to that.

Digg 113

Digg Communities MySpace YouTube 113

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? It is the younger generation that Tom mentions as possible change agents who use web 2.0 Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

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SocialText News Sharepoint Web 2.0 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

Here are three cases that were blown way out of proportion but could have been handled a lot better if the companies thought of the consequences before acting. There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets. Answers Yahoo!

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Reputation Airlines Digg MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

It’s an absolutely important tool, and it brought an immersion into the site even when I wasn’t on it. Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. Making sure your site is not only accessible on mobile phones but can interact with them is extremely important. So there you go.

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Microblogging API MySpace Yahoo 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Companies have to engage with their buyers, especially the early adopters, and make sure they’re happy.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Now known as the “social media hotel&# of NYC, Roger Smith is attracting a really incredible bunch of people who have raved about the ambiance and the company’s approachability online. He says, “The use of Twitter was mainly for the brevity and ability to drive traffic to our blog and booking site rogersmith.com.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Diva Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Follow Dede on Twitter @clutchmagazine Facebook MySpace Angela Benton is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb 2.0. com is a blog that analyzes emerging web trends as it relates to African-Americans and African-American culture. BlackWeb20.com s effects on urban entertainment.

MySpace 56

MySpace Marketing Web 2.0 Forums 56

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

With others who address me as Jennifer or Dakash, I wonder if these individuals representing both small and large companies really realize that their lack of research reflects poorly on their clients. Some have gone as far as outing the companies who have trodden down this path. Self-employed site owner. Mom & pop.

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Press Release How To Radian6 Blogger 129

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

This is especially useful when your blog links to a site, or when you are using AdSense or another service to earn off your blog. And some of the images just don’t do other sites justice. As my company builds out our first blog- there are great tips in here, thank you. Your consistent effort will payoff quickly.

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Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. It’s about humanization.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 149

Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The professional headline is a tagline that follows you around the site and is always underneath your name. Worked with some of the biggest companies in tech and digital, including RIM, Microsoft Canada, IBM, British Telecom and LG Electronics. Keynote Address for public or privately held companies. Webinars/Online education.

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LinkedIn Radian6 Education Fashion 89

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Reply Claire Chapman August 19, 2010 at 9:21 am And I also just referenced you on my company blog as I was writing inspired by this and the discussions about Facebook Places (which isn’t even live in the UK yet!) It was a close knit community and some of us still hold true to the original purpose of the site. Thanks Deb!

Activities 216

Activities Social Media Policies Social Networking 216

ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

If you’re not on these social sites, then you are missing out on great business opportunities. If you are on these sites, however, you probably know that getting meaningful engagement with your followers isn’t easy. At the 2011 Web 2.0 What other methods do you use to increase engagement on social sites?

Engagement 44

Engagement Google Tweetdeck Twitter 44

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 With so many folks that are invested in the service, ignoring them for long periods of time and letting messages stack up will not be in the site’s best interest.

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Digg Social Media Upcoming Ustream 100

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.

Brands 133

Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 22, 2008

best practices , government , government 2.0 , public sector , social media , web 2.0 I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0 list of each team’s contact info on company intranet) would give people a taste of collaboration and encourage other small steps. bring up from the sabotage manual ).

Gov 2.0 62

Gov 2.0 Social Media Wiki Web 2.0 62

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Lesson # 2 Know What Web 2.0 on the subject of understanding Web 2.0. In the PowerPoint shown during the class, Whitney also took on the big task of defining Web 2.0: Workshop at Bentley - Upload a doc Read this doc on Scribd: Web 2.0 Features , Social Web , Trends. 25 Comments.

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Class Social Media Web 2.0 Wiki 274