Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. I naturally selected the “Photo&# option.

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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. Their commitment to social media : Are they dabblers in social media or serious aficionados?

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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. 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 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

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

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

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

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. Some of these friends have mutual real-life friends (outside typical industry connections).

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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

AUGUST 18, 2009

Go to trade show events or nighttime meetups. If they actually know you exist and see you’ve made the effort to haul yourself to an event where they’re present, they’ll keep that in mind when composing a piece about your software or startup or whatever other product you have to offer.

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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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

He recently told me that every week they have a mini-presentation on one aspect of social media (past topics included ethics, social networks, and social bookmarking). One of the topics was microblogging, and Twitter was discussed. social media technologies to mobilize action in business). social networking.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Editorial content (developer diaries, tutorials, etc) -In-game live event support -Real-life event organization and support, e.g. trade shows, player gatherings, etc.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2010

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. This is especially true of businesses who have a brick and mortar location and even better for businesses.

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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. Despite the changing landscape, the articles I list here are typically those that I feel are “timeless&# in that they could be referenced in the future and still have utility. Every year, I can only read so many articles.

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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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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’s an excellent book — thank you for writing it.

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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

JULY 8, 2008

It’s like going to an open bar event, the newcomer will ask people to buy them drinks. Chris McGill , Founder of Social News Site Mixx.com : To me there are mostly social media enthusiasts: we call them “media hubs.&# Specialties in social media work are already developing.

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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

JULY 21, 2008

I like to think of this as “Schrodinger’s Blogger&# , referring to the famous thought experiment which explains to us the rather odd concept of the quantum state, in which an event exists only as a waveform of possibilities (1 or 0) until it is observed, and that the act of observation changes the outcome of the experiment.

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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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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

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

APRIL 8, 2010

If your client approaches you and says that he’s disappointed that the marketing initiatives only include Facebook and Twitter, it’s time to set up and manage expectations — and prove that you’re doing much more than just what’s viewable to the public — before it’s too late.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Reply Christine Taylor December 1, 2009 at 10:22 pm I wasn’t able to get to the ( [link] ) Reply Tamar Weinberg December 1, 2009 at 10:25 pm Christine, it works here – did you go to [link] It will immediately capitalize itself and show you an upcoming event. Reply Tim Ware December 1, 2009 at 10:37 pm Great info, Jesse.

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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

APRIL 1, 2010

The more you can offer a fresh perspective or a brand new concept, the more people will gravitate to you. No one wants to subscribe to another tech blog or meet someone at a networking event that does the same thing as someone else.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In the social media world, it’s also imperative to have an emergency preparedness plan in place. In the event of emergencies, someone should be designated to run the public relations and oversee all inbound and outbound communications.

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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

JUNE 23, 2010

Contributions on a Facebook event wall that come from a social media aficionado whose name clearly isn’t on his (her?) Even social media “purists&# aren’t really that pure. It’s overkill. birth certificate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

A couple more for the list: Events- if you set up an event and then it’s over & you want to remove it from the events tab, you can only cancel the event, not simply delete it. 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

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). I think there are plenty of people who do both.

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