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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It’s no surprise that both are asked to speak at events on a very regular basis. If you’ve ever seen Gary speak at an event or even just on his Wine Library TV appearances, you can see the exuberance of gusto in his presentations. The brands of Chris Brogan and Gary Vaynerchuk are extremely well known. They have passion.

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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. But sometimes there are surprises in every single meeting.

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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

JUNE 30, 2008

Both of these features continue to support my argument that Twitter is not Plurk, nor is Plurk a new Twitter. They both have their places in the web 2.0 and social media sphere. I think plurk is more for networking and twitter more for tweeting news/events/links. Thanks for laying out the two sides.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

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. And here are some very cool pics including the I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER clan and David Caruso of CSI: Miami.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

In the real world, networking in person can also help. Go to trade show events or nighttime meetups. Don’t ignore the opportunities to leave a memorable impression on the bloggers who will talk about you.

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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 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. and Web 2.0,

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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

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. 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

MARCH 4, 2008

The Pictures Here are some pictures of the event: Want more photos? And of course, thanks to Barry for the flight and hotel. Check out my Flickr photostream. Also, since I’m such a fan of schwag , Danny Sullivan had me report on the best schwag for SMX West at Search Engine Land.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

He’d also have done the outreach personally since I’ve met the guy at social media events. If this rockstar knew better, he’d have used my contact form and read my coverage policy (short answer: I won’t cover anything you send to me).

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As domain names and web hosting got cheaper and cheaper, it was easy for individuals to build communities that they loved and that would help like-minded folks meet each other. Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media. Social media. Whether youre socializing on Facebook , updating Twitter , or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia , social media has become an integral part of our daily lives. Lesson # 2 Know What Web 2.0 on the subject of understanding Web 2.0.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Kevin, I’m afraid that you’re not aware of the ongoing events at Digg, or you clearly don’t have time to realize that you’re just the founder of Digg; you’re not really a user like the rest of us. Digg keeps seeming like a social network on the downhill slide.

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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. and is a “homey and cutesy&# hotel with “lots of character,&# according to Jaffe.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web.

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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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2009

And while you could keep those messages stored on Twitter’s server, it might be in your best interest to have them stored to a separate account in the event that Twitter goes down or for ease of searching.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Work With Web Developers to Update Your Site for Web 2.0 The difference is updating your website to Web 2.0. Once the web 2.0 Once the web 2.0 But I’m not going to coach you on how to design a web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

In any event, the blog will be made over soon enough. No one ever tells me though… Just my own take on things. Don’t wish to offend, sorry! Reply Tamar Weinberg July 20, 2010 at 2:33 pm What? That’s just a subset. Reply Joseph Archibald July 20, 2010 at 2:48 pm Yes of course Tamar, pardon my voicing up.

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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

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. If you cancel it, here’s what it says: “We will email everyone who was invited that this event has been canceled.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Reply jeanette okwu April 8, 2010 at 3:10 pm great thoughts, but here come the hard part: business owners, entrepreneurs and other big cheeses think that social media brings overnight success to their brands just by setting up a bunch of social network accounts. Reply Tamar Weinberg April 13, 2010 at 12:00 am Thanks Heather!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. I’ve been to the aforementioned three types of events.

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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

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.

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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. It gave rise to an entirely new breed of speaker. Yet people always ask!)

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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 about getting to know who the person is behind the screen. You don’t have to make your blog completely personal, though. How does one do this?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

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. Andy has submitted nearly 15,000 stories to Digg and over 4200 of his submissions have hit the front page of the impossible-to-game social news site.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I agree with your assessment of the differences between SEO and Social Media Marketing. I also appreciate your characterization of both as ongoing processes (social media is not an event). Anyway it all depends on your own background, mine is more practical web stuff and not social networking.

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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. In any event, I get paid to blog on some avenues and I also blog for free on others. Perhaps, real ad sales will follow.

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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. Sometimes it’s most effective to venture outside your cocoon. You never know who you might meet.

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