Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

As an example, I followed two major news aggregators for awhile, but the updates were just too frequent for my needs. Twitter as a news breaker. Your mileage may vary. This, too, is useful.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes. Indeed, I’ve discovered some incredible video that I can watch again and again. Identifiable Do something that other people can relate to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Kiva is an organization who allows anyone to contribute money to aid an entrepreneur in a developing country be successful in a business he/she is trying to begin or further develop. He used Twitter to raise money for charity if people tweeted and blamed his cancer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example. Andrew, all I can say is that you’re not even legal yet but you’re teaching a lot of your elders an extremely valuable lesson.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Accept a New Normal When I talk about accepting a new normal , I’m talking about two different aspects of life. Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. The first is personal.

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Razor Social

MARCH 30, 2016

There’s no perfect solution for tracking all activity for a campaign but you can do it based on a combination of a number of factors, for example: Hashtag – Hashtags will not be used for all mentions and for all platforms but it’s a great way of isolating traffic. Emerging Trends. What about predicting what’s to come?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

However, I’m not complaining about the new changes — at all. In fact, the new Digg pictures launch has been bunched up with other great features that I’m quite happy about. Thanks guys.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When searching for new and interesting websites, it is much preferable to visit a website on a friend’s recommendation than it is to use classic search engines. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. For me, FriendFeed is the #2 driver of traffic to my Web site, behind only Google.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

We’re starting to use search — and social media — as our recommendation engines. It’s evident that if you want to maintain your clients, you need to really make the effort to keep them. And if you are, I hope you have a disaster recovery system in place!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Some advice I give to my Social Media students is to be careful following the example of some large brands who are relatively new to Social Media but seem to be successful. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately. I guess they see these relationships the same way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

It should definitely be assumed that if someone uses his Facebook account for both, for example, that there will be a mixture of comments that may not necessarily be personal. Call me Victoria from the example above. An example. and I use as a space in which I learn, have fun and meet new, like-minded people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent. For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack. From looking at the software development world: an open source product can benefit from ongoing enhanced security.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. I don’t want anyone but the intended recipient to see shouts, for example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. In fact, most of them had already left.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement.

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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. Beyond learning about your users, FriendFeed allows users to comment on content within the site itself.

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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. It also becomes direct.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? Search Engine Smackdown Which Transformer Are You? Examples include: Instant Domain Search (with its AJAX glory) Website Monitoring Tests Think about it this way: MyBlogLog has a widget , statistics, and a community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. For example: If I write that I played drums for Van Halen on their Reunion Tour, you, as a friend, have the ability of telling Spock whether it’s true or not. Friendster made it easy for not-so-genuine people to become friends with real people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

COPPA laws protect children under the age of 13, and that’s why Ani’s blog, for example, is protected (by her mother’s request). In other words, show them that you are no longer interested in the consoles games and they will follow by example. That said, this is the age we’re living in right now.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? Kirtsy is a social news network; there are also forums and even Yahoo! Tamar, I agree with all your points here and I want to add that social media involves human psychology.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

For example, by looking at ProBlogger, we are being told that the owner is not an amateur but a pro blogger. Let’s take Techipedia for example. For example, if I’m blogging to tell you the importance of traffic then I should also tell you how to get traffic in the same post. For example, my blog is three months old.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Thompson of Search Engine Journal has a great article entitled How To Find Industry Influencers. Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. The job is to guide the web developers and programmers so that your new web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. 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).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. You market, by not marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply petnos May 10, 2008 at 3:32 pm This is a good example for people will face the situation you were in. I didn’t realize I could contact the FDA, for example — all I used was Google, only to lead me to that page on the 1+ year old class action lawsuit. The problem is finding a human Guinea Pig to verify it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Extra Credit: OPML for Social Media U.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Take my husband’s grandfather as an example. These examples above illustrate a typical usability question faced by Facebook users (well, except for Grandpa). With regards to Search Conference, I refer to Search Marketing Expo, PubCon, and Search Engine Strategies, but I also met a few people at Affiliate Summit.

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Keyhole.co

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Take the following example: “I love their products but I’m not a fan of their recent ads.”. It automatically tracks sentiment across social, news, blogs, videos, forums, and reviews, with the option to manually change the sentiment score. Pricing: Awario starts at $29 USD ($49 CAD) per month. Pricing: $499.00

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent. Smashing Magazine ), among other things. It’s about getting to know who the person is behind the screen.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

You’ll find all of this and more in this collection of tools and reviews of some of the coolest free or low-cost social media monitoring and web tools so far this year. Social Mention. ** 5 stars. A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Cool Web Tools.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. You might choose to only follow active users (who tweet between 1 and 100 times a month, for example) and not users who are either way too inactive or are too excessive. These are: The number of friends and followers they have.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example. For me, social media is the loooong haul and not a brief campaign. Reply BarbaraKB March 12, 2009 at 10:32 am Good analysis, Tamar. People feel cheated and mis-used.

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