Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. FriendFeed takes this idea and goes a step further.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Of course, my trip would have been a sorry little disappointment if it weren’t for two people. 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. Thanks to Neil and Brian for cheering me up.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Some UI genius has to come out with a program that integrates social network updates, chat, blogging, and micro-blogging into a small easy to use interface like Adium. All this communication and web socializing takes too much time (even if it is fun). Make yourself heard, comment on news, stories and current affair.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

.&# While I haven’t really gone for a night on the town, social media has given me a taste of what I’m missing. I’ve learned that Roger Smith Hotel is a boutique hotel with event rooms suitable for parties and workshops. Two days ago, they launched a new campaign to replace the old one.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2010

He’d also have done the outreach personally since I’ve met the guy at social media events. 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. Study your influencers out; don’t take the lazy path because you can.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

To get a feel for what students are studying in Social Media U, you only need to do a web search because many of the students arent just learning how to, theyre blogging about it too. Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. 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. Ignore them at your peril.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

A Community Manager who does use social platforms needs to be able to track its effectiveness in… um… getting people through the door. I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. 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. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

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). Of course, you can also just use a Facebook application for that. You may find opportunities to host real life events, be them at conferences or whatever else.

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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 article has examples of how social media worked too. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

I think plurk is more for networking and twitter more for tweeting news/events/links. If you want a more close knit type of social media, plurk, hands down. I think this is great advice for all social media sites. Use each site for a specific purpose (which will have its inevitable crossover, of course).

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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. Thanks for reminding me to stay the course.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

I may rip it off and do one on video bloggers (inspired by this post of course) Reply Tamar Weinberg July 1, 2010 at 12:14 pm If you’re going to do this, you better make it a guest post here, David Reply John Sullivan July 1, 2010 at 7:12 pm Cool post.My In any event, the blog will be made over soon enough.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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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. Yet with social media, there’s a perception that it’s easy to score freebies. There are exceptions to the rule, of course, and there always will be.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. Reply dangrsmind July 21, 2008 at 11:38 am Nice summary of the plurk events and the Kaycee Nicole story.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

I suggested the same blogs and training courses and told her that she could potentially go out on her own and do her own thing after she learned the basics and knew how to apply them. Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Here’s what you can do to change your business course. Great Content for SEO: Simpler than You Ever Imagined : Build a survey, send it to your customers, record their responses, and leverage it to build what people want (via search, of course). 50 Kloutless Ways to Get Value from Twitter : …or any social network, really.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Sure, most social media marketing plans often start with the obvious contenders, such as Facebook and Twitter, mostly because the audiences there are so vast and diversified that you’re bound to find people interested in your product offerings. (Of Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook >> This is absolutely right.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

As all conferences I’ve attended, it was a great one, and by far the best part was the smallness of the conference overall which really helped the networking efforts. And of course, I love this industry because conferences unite all of us from different parts of the world. And of course, thanks to Barry for the flight and hotel.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You may find people who are surfing outside your social circle who might be potentially interested in your products. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. One side writes [also] about Sales/Social Media, the other about music. You never know who you might meet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

In fact, a relationship that starts on the right foot might actually translate to better things down the road, including special event invites and freebies that might as well be equivalent to a really good ad deal. Of course, if you had done your research, you would have known that. Perhaps, real ad sales will follow.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Personal accounts of everyday events is what made Dooce and the Bloggess so successful. Go to local or national face-to-face events to meet other bloggers. It’s consistent … it’s eloquence … it’s unique … it’s specific … it’s thought-provoking n of course, it’s passion- filled. How does one do this? I always try my best.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may need a refresher course on social media etiquette — and perhaps real-life etiquette also. Here are some egregious sins that you must not perform on social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. The key to success is moderation.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 17, 2013

Each week at Ford, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep the wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. Image credit: Werner Kunz.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

| SMO ABC March 4, 2010 at 10:23 am Facebook : Facebook Fan Page : Search Engine Optimizician March 8, 2010 at 1:11 pm WELSTech » Blog Archive » 122 – Social Networking Show and Tell March 10, 2010 at 6:02 am 4 reasons why you need a facebook fan page | CONFIDENCE IS AN INSIDE JOB ™.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Of course, then, today is my birthday, but it’s a big one. Sexy Numbers: Measuring ROI in Social Media Campaigns (ReveNews): This article has some great insights on how you can tackle that elusive ROI question. Today, I turn 30. I started this “best posts&# idea five years ago and it’s grown huge. Enough said.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. It’s how social networks are intended to be used. Of course not. Contributions on a Facebook event wall that come from a social media aficionado whose name clearly isn’t on his (her?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Here’s how this works : In the Internet Marketing Best Posts “series,&# I take posts that are typically timeless — they’re not confined to a specific event or news occurrence — they’re valuable for the long haul in terms of Internet Marketing and creative strategy. Not excess.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

And of course a snail mail letter is likely to at least get opened. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. Of course, pitches that you send that are off-topic normally won’t get a response.)

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Social Networking: Like Falling In Love. Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical).

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Viper Chill

APRIL 25, 2012

Social networks are growing at record-breaking speeds. Brand new blogs like The Verge are being flooded with more traffic than those that have been around for the best part of a decade. Their site is still huge, of course, but a new leader in the industry emerged. Disagree and put-down a high profile news breaker.

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