Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Every conversation shifted to Twitter, as folks recognized that they can brand themselves and their businesses through a Twitter identity. Thanks much to Brett and the WebmasterWorld team (Neil, Scott, and the rest of that wonderful bunch) for putting together a great event! Keep it up, see you at the next event. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 I know many IT professionals who are huge social media evangelists, and I know communicators who are terrified of losing control of the conversation. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Upcoming Events. 8) “Participating in the conversation&# is hollow advice for a large corporation: Too many give the advice of “join the conversation&# without enough guidance behind the surface. On June 29th, 2008, Jumping into the conversation? I spent a long time in a very large brand. Go join that!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies. I wonder how much web apps produced in the same month?) – Apple may take a 30% cut, but conversely developers KEEP 70%. More and more I'm seeing sentiments like: 'Developers can completely bypass Apple’s money-grubbing, dictatorial policies.&#

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Eric: Well, you’re kind of hitting on the, kind of the lynch pin, and I think the sort of the faltering of Digg and also sort of the lesson we wanted to tease out for this conversation is that you kept mentioning community. I mean the community votes on what’s the most relevant or important or news worthy event of the day.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. Myspace also. includes slides & worksheet) [link to post] (RT @jaybaer) #smaz – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] Park Howell Sorry I missed you at today’s event. They always do.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 28, 2008

Increasingly, co-workers seem to figure theres no point in walking 10 feet to a colleagues desk and having a brief conversation when a 300-word e-mail mini-essay will do. Also helping overcome e-mail fatigue at leading organizations are effective policies on e-mail use and the use of social media such as wikis and blogs. Intranet Blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. So marking a conversation or message, to be found easily later, should be one of the first features implemented. Share your experiences, memories and events with your friends and family. Make yourself heard, comment on news, stories and current affair.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I hate being asked this question because I always feel self-conscious that my answer may not inspire the person asking the question to continue the conversation and may just be asking it like asking How are you? Summary : Digital government and social innovation entrepreneur with a strong background in policy, communications and engagement.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? The blog, like the conference series, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how todayâ??s Blog Policy. event announcements. Upcoming Event. opportunities and challenges. More info here. Contact us.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

You must take the time to build a cross-functional team in your organization, and figure out your policies and procedures. link] Rituparn 6 Req Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and Events | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] ericboggs Interesting content, Jay. That Twitter widget is cool.

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Social Media Strategery

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 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. Government 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Chances are if they’re already using FriendFeed and have begun broadcasting events from numerous social networks, they are early adopters and are more savvy than the average social media user. It’s also a conversation medium. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them.

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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

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian explains that “conversations are happening and it is up to me to either be part of them or not.&# I’ve learned that Roger Smith Hotel is a boutique hotel with event rooms suitable for parties and workshops. It’s located central to Midtown Manhattan (Grand Central Terminal, perfect for out-of-towners!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start. It really worries me!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

Plurk: Real Nested Conversations Brought to the Microblogging Platform A few days ago, I noticed via Twitter search tool Summize that Aaron Brazell had been talking about me on his Twitter stream. Therefore, I suppose the nested conversations and time-line layout make complete sense. Even Quotably didn’t prove to be much help.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. But, fortunately there are some pretty sweet tools out there to help me find the right people to engage in conversation. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

There are tons of free and paid tools out there that help you to monitor the conversations taking place. 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.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Employees are going to find a way around the policy and CIOs or IT departments should try to find a happy medium where some social media apps will be blocked and some left accessible. Not to mention there are more benefits from using social networking sites showing every day.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

Viva Arizona's “we don't change our clocks&# policy! In the meantime, I will look forward to conversing here and on FB and Twitter and to finding opportunities to hang out. [link] jaybaer Arizona isn't time zone challenged. It's the only time zone sane state. I literally have never changed a clock in my life.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

These posts are not in response to newsworthy events, nor are they displayed in any particular order. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. Every year, I can only read so many articles.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. You may find opportunities to host real life events, be them at conferences or whatever else. Why not invite your Facebook fans to a special event at your venue? Growth can be a good thing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

link] Angela Connor I don't know that these are necessarily the wrong questions, if they provoke additional conversations and they ultimately move to bigger ideas and begin to think more broadly about integration. Its great to see this conversation so relevant active! Thanks for the kind words. Means a lot to me. Thanks, Jay!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So if you’re spending $200 a day on your Social Media campaign, and let’s say your product is $100 worth per item, let’s say you’re bringing 100 people to the website, and your Google Analytics shows a 15% conversion rate to a warm lead, and a 15% conversion rate of warm leads to paying clients purchasing one item.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 27, 2009

I don’t necessarily expect to meet with those folks immediately; often, these powerful relationships are formed online, and I then try to learn what I can about the blogger himself/herself and follow up, normally at a conference or industry event. I really try to get to know these people who I converse with online. Answers Yahoo!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

To learn more about Platform, read our Privacy Policy and Platform Page.) Get notified of updates in this conversation "> Follow conversation Stop receiving notifications "> Following conversation people listening Followers Livefyre is in Offline Mode - you can still post comments. your name and profile picture).

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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. Some communities are very open to marketers being there and contributing to the conversation.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

Having long ago passed MySpace as the most popular social network, Facebook recently replaced Google as the most-visited website in the U.S. If you know that and have an upcoming event in that region, you could send separate wall posts in French and English to your Quebec fans based on the language they prefer. Is Facebook Forever?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

If you blog or post comments, you should make sure it adheres to your company’s social media policy. It’s not something that you should outsource to a recently-hired intern as there are risks when there is no policy compliance, but more importantly, when there is no synergy between the individual and the company s/he represents.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

What they often don’t realize is that they can safely enable these applications through the use of smart policies. I think listening with a tool like Radian 6 is step 1, monitoring with something like SM2 is step 2 and managing from one platform with two way conversation is step 3. What conversations can you join?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Somehow, individuals forget along the way that costs accrue when considering the venue, food, exhibit hall, and the staff required on hand to run the event smoothly. And featured it in a big presentation I did at an event here, too — so, trying to give back! It usually ends the conversation right there. Guilty as charged!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Many of them (more than half) were individuals I met at search conferences, but other conferences (SXSW, events that Mashable was involved in in the capacity of host or media sponsor, and the first IZEAFest) also represented my Industry connections. Reply Chris Herbert January 21, 2010 at 1:14 pm Really good post and conversation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue. In any event, the blog will be made over soon enough. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! I don’t know what to say.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The Social Media Marketing List: 45 things you should be doing but probably aren’t by Conversation Marketing. Chris Tompkins suggests tailoring the style of your profiles in the big 3 social networks much as you’d dress differently for various types of business events. by Served Fresh Media. by {grow}.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Here we go with the highly-talked-about keynote presentation at South by Southwest… Just like an Apple keynote, they tried to build up some serious momentum for this event. Personally, having sat next to Daniel Terdiman of CNet, I heard (and understand) both perspectives after having liveblogged the entire event.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 2, 2010

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Find your organization’s social media policy/guidelines and memorize them. If your organization doesn’t have any social media guidelines, find your external communications policy and see if it’s covered in there.

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