Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. What motivates them?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). Then the comments come in, and a conversation takes place. Then it’s up to the members to direct the specifics of the conversations.

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Firebelly

JUNE 11, 2010

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

There you have it: seven viral video characteristics that start the conversations and get the wheels turning. 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.

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Diva Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2008

However, without a plan social media is but a cool conversation topic at your next cocktail party and not a business decision. Social pundits call this listening to the conversation. Microblogging/ Twitter - No time for a Big strategy? One is with a personal page and the second is building a group page for "fans."

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The blog, like the conference series, aims to drive and deepen conversation about how todayâ??s Microblogging. Learn how McGraw-Hill/Platts, a world leader in providing energy information, experienced an 40% increase in online sales and an uptick in lead conversions from 10% to 25% by enhancing its search strategy. Lee Lefever.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

I have NO PROBLEM with conversations happening offsite. I’ve learned to adapt by integrating those conversations on my blog wherever I can (as you can see, Richard Cunningham just posted on Louis’s site and you can read it here. You can also see FriendFeed posts below).

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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?

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Use an open source microblogging service like Yammer or QikCom. If your organization already uses Instant Messaging, microblogging offers the potential to turn those one-on-one conversations into group collaboration. Think of it like an IM platform where every IM you send is open to everyone else in the network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

The only similarity is a 140 character limit for posts — so Plurk is essentially a microblogging platform. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

well……that just seems like a place for kids and even though Facebook seems to be replacing MySpace for youth conversations, it brings out the kid in me while accomplishing the networking part at the same time. I started with LinkedIn and while it is a great tool like you said, Facebook is way more fun. thus your persona’s.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Everything is multi: multi-screens, multi-channeled, multi-conversations, and multitasking. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

It’s also a conversation medium. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics. We agreed to forward the information on to this group of members, and asked for their permission to share their contact information with Royal Caribbean. This is Cruise Critic’s sole involvement in this program.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 12, 2009

I use Monitter to see what is being said in my city by specifying the distance of search and I open it up for every conversation when I look for information about news topics or when i want to see what is being said about the company I work for. twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 12, 2009

I use Monitter to see what is being said in my city by specifying the distance of search and I open it up for every conversation when I look for information about news topics or when i want to see what is being said about the company I work for. twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2018

. “Dying” may be too strong a word, but the microblogging social network is clearly struggling. As the year draws to a close I’m seeing further evidence that conversations in the twittersphere are drying up too.” and because LinkedIn has wrecked groups functionality, leading to a significant drop in participation.

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Hootsuite

JULY 29, 2019

Encourage employees to participate appropriately in the conversation around your brand. For instance, Adidas encourages employees to identify themselves and “make clear that you are speaking for yourself and not the Adidas Group.”. Meanwhile, Walmart asks that employees avoid engaging in conversations about Walmart entirely.

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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.&# We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. Part of this, for him, revolves around being approachable and building up relationships privately via direct messages or on the Twitter stream.

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Later

MARCH 31, 2020

Captions are a great opportunity to spark conversation and start forming meaningful connections with your community. My favorite kind of longer-form caption is the microblogging caption, which I’d encourage you to start incorporating into your Instagram strategy as much as you can! View this post on Instagram. 5 ways to master….

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 22, 2013

The popular mobile app Vine created a new genre in social media called video microblogging. Conversation & Engagement. The electronic music group Glitch Mob uses Vine to show short previews of their songs in the making. Six seconds is more than enough time to sell a product, service or brand — easily and effectively.

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Later

MARCH 31, 2020

Captions are a great opportunity to spark conversation and start forming meaningful connections with your community. My favorite kind of longer-form caption is the microblogging caption, which I’d encourage you to start incorporating into your Instagram strategy as much as you can! View this post on Instagram. 5 ways to master….

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Really, try Propeller, you’ll meet some amazing people there and have actual intelligent conversations. (I Digg has taken away the official top users list and has evened out the algorithm to curb “friendly&# digging groups. Reply Charbarred May 9, 2008 at 9:20 am It’s all they got Tamar. Your blog has always been ace.

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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. The time has come for companies to be part of the conversation. Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

But more than that, Mike’s post explains that social media is really about using social channels appropriately to communicate and converse — and as an extension of that, you might just end up being able to sell something. Conversation Agent): How do you want to use Twitter? It’s really not that hard!

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 5, 2010

In other words, the 14 million odd people who regularly go on Twitter (as opposed to the 95 million that have signed up), are already active in social media, know how to make things happen and to create noise – good or bad – online, and take conversations elsewhere, be that to blogs, forums, other social networks, or even the mainstream media.&#.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Some of us have been thrust into social media simply because the online landscape showed potential for online conversations. Linkedin lead generation requires commitment to answering and asking questions on Groups/Answers, taking advantage of the deep searches, and connecting directly with those around you in your network. Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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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. This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. Simply stated, for a business, you should create a Fan Page.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It’s about engaging with customers, prospects, industry press, analysts, bloggers and other key influencers to increase the amount of positive conversation about your company, product or service. Microblogging (i.e., Social media is more like a PR activity than marketing or advertising. Open, public social networks (e.g.,

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter. Reply Chris Herbert January 21, 2010 at 1:14 pm Really good post and conversation. Facebook is also really supposed to be a network of trusted contacts too. It’s not.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

blogs, microblogging sites, social bookmarking, images, video), and shows associated metrics like sentiment, top keywords, top users (who’s talking about this topic most actively) and sources. A real-time search engine that displays results from blog posts, articles, blog comments, microblogging sites (e.g., ** 5 stars.

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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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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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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 3, 2015

The microblogging site now boasts more than 255 million monthly active users , and 53% of Twitter users recommend products in their tweets at some time. ”, he shows how to use Google Analytics custom segments and goals to analyze the engagement and conversions of Twitter-driven site traffic and compare it to other sources.

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