Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Facebook.com — Create a social media storefront on your company’s Facebook page using tools like Storefront Social or the Payvment E-commerce Storefront app. For example, you might have launched a Twitter account hoping it would drive tons of customers to your e-commerce site quickly. Now forget what I said. Go Offline.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Some goals you may consider could be: Increasing the number of followers on Twitter or Facebook by 20% over 12 months. If you’re tweeting about your latest blog post or sharing a new product on Facebook or Google+ then visitors will be coming to your website and showing up as traffic. Getting 5,000 likes on a website over the campaign.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Over the past couple years, one of the most common questions from business owners has been, “Do I need to be on Facebook and/or Twitter?&# To Facebook or Not to Facebook? As of November 2010, there are more than 500 million active Facebook users, 50% of whom login every day. This is a guest post by Angela Denby.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

One or two tweets a day, one or two Facebook posts a week, are not frequent enough to put you on anyone’s radar. Example: Offering a free white paper download to someone likes you on Facebook, and the download consists of 200 words of common knowledge. Nobody likes stream cloggers. Underfeeding. Over repetition. No engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 7, 2010

For some it is Twitter and Facebook. For me personally, my two favorite parties are Twitter and Facebook. Sharing with your network something they created (a valuable blog post for example), a product, cause, whatever it might be. For example, uber-entrepreneur and blogger, Neil Patel is the master of the intro.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

With the huge number of communication channels available including emails, websites, and iPhone apps plus the ever-increasing number of social media channels such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook Google + and YouTube, it is no wonder that maintaining consistent branding has become somewhat of a challenge to the digital age marketer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 27, 2012

But it’s rare to see such fan love on Facebook and Twitter. Take photos of folks you meet during the show and post them to Facebook – the new timeline now gives you lots of nice real estate for images. Here’s an example: “Thanks to all those who told us what new social media sites they’re on. Why is that? So thank them.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2012

GE recently released a series of animations promoting a health related Facebook application. Let’s use Spotify as an example. Take a look at their 2011 video showing how Facebook integrates with the Spotify player. Animation and apps go hand in hand. Cloud Computing and Animation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly Now that I’ve shared some concrete examples, let’s take a moment to talk about the benefits of “fixing your house” first, before engaging in social.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

If you sell something online, you can actually tie Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn activity to revenue. It’s what I use to track my Facebook and Twitter profiles. Once connected with my Facebook fan page and Twitter account, Raven Tools starts to monitor growth of fans and followers. Pretty nifty.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Those of you who read Techipedia regularly know that I won’t add you as a Facebook friend if I don’t know you. I guess it’s assumed in social spaces that when s/he initiates the friend request, you can comment on anything on their Facebook wall or tweet back at them about something personal or even comment on a photo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 17, 2012

This video by Inspired Bicycles is a great example of using the resources around you to create a video that works for your niche audience. It may mean setting up a Facebook page that viewers can ‘like’. You may want to shoot your employees in action, your products in action, or a combination of the two. Market your video. Be creative.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

“I want to have 100,000 Facebook Fans in 2 weeks, and I am a start-up business that no one knows… &# It is hard to explain to people how it all works when they have this type of expectation. Reply Arthur Charles Van Wyk October 8, 2010 at 2:27 am Does the consistency part mean that if I have a Facebook profile where I am just me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

For example, if you have a product for teenagers you would not want to pick a pregnancy blogger. In addition to sending them an email, friend them on Facebook, become a fan of their page, and follow them on Twitter. They have a very active Twitter feed, Facebook page, and comments section. Here is the list I use.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Using Twitter and Facebook to promote a blog post is great, but make sure to mix it up with other news and topics as well. You don’t want to annoy the people in your Twitter stream or Facebook news feed. President Obama is a great example of this. This is where many social media newbies can miss the boat.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

Shopping.com, for example, will list the vendor with the combination of the lowest price and the best customer reviews first in its results. Google is also starting to integrate “+1’s” into AdWords results, just as Facebook has integrated “likes” into Facebook ads. Need I go on?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

For example, if you wanted to research historical information, like to learn what year World War 2 ended; or if you wanted to find out how many games your favorite professional team won last year, a traditional search engine will get you this information. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 19, 2012

While most brands look to make a name for themselves on Facebook and Twitter, other businesses take a more introspective approach. Take a look at some strong examples of community support. Autodesk WikiHelp : Another software behemoth, Autodesk’s engineering niche introduces a decidedly heavier technical element than previous examples.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2012

A number of SEO pros are also starting to buy websites based on the keywords they rank for, or the Twitter and Facebook accounts that are attached to the sites. For example, trawling through the results of a search for “Copyright © 2009 pets” can give you sites that rank for “pets” but have potentially not been updated for a while.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. I do incorporate stock photos especially in the headers to draw attentiion to my posts when I link to them in Facebook and LinkedIn. Images are better for Facebook sharing too!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? There really aren’t 350 million members on Facebook. You’re likely not alone.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 13, 2012

Although there was a Facebook group, people wanted and needed something more professional to attempt to effectuate change. Finally, having 700 friends on Facebook meant something! I posted the petition on a few of my friends’ walls, and before I knew it, thousands of people signed it through Facebook. This was easy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. You can use the many applications that Facebook offers, so that others can answer questions on a survey, have discussions on the forums, and/or have notes to bring awareness to a topic.

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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. It also serves a specific purpose, while its chief competitor, Facebook, does not. That’s why I, like Eric , won’t be spamming Facebook, but I feel fine about doing so on Twitter. Yeah, I thought so.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Take my own situation as an example. For example, when I first started making money online, I was 16 years old. I get the same e-mails, only they are about getting a #1 ranking in Google Reply Ian February 2, 2010 at 10:59 am This post is a prime example of how to be a true social media expert. The first is personal.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

We live in a real-time world; monitor your Twitter feeds and Facebook page and have someone available who is competent to respond. Create novel content or mobile apps, for example. Respond in a timely fashion. It’s best to avoid being overly-defensive or treating followers as if they are not very bright by being evasive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. The Facebook page could be totally overrun by bandits and they’d never know because they aren’t paying that much attention. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

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. A great example, one that recently affected me: A mobile phone manufacturer, called HTC, released a phone that had sub-par video performance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ This article is an example of that. For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Today, video’s potential is obvious: it can be a marketer’s dream and yield tremendous successes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

For example, don’t sign into your Google account and then proceed to conduct searches on Google. If you have accounts with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo, or similar sites, it is advisable to tightly control how your personal information is disseminated to other individuals and organizations. Social Networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Networks like Digg, FriendFeed, and Facebook are seeing huge growths in value, but the little guys, the ones actually providing the meat and potatoes for those operations, rarely see a nickel. Some of these sites also offer the ability to have commentary, including Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed, SocialMedian, and many others.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Marketers love Facebook. The best place you can place your brand on Facebook is through a Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P&# , not to be confused with your personal Profile). Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. This applies to Pages as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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MARCH 4, 2008

May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca 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

MAY 13, 2008

For example: the apache server, since its code is open any attacker can analyze it, search for loopholes and devise an attack. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent.

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JUNE 10, 2010

Thirdly, get social and join social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon to connect with people and make friends! 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). Blogging is so much fun with friends!

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