Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 22, 2010

This is a new type of search, one which gives you a window into the public’s thoughts – in real time. Also, when breaking news happens, a real time search can also clue you in to more information. For example, I am Philadelphia Phillies fan – and last week, Jimmy Rollins was not in the starting lineup.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Learning is key – By having many minds contribute to the final goal, people can learn from one another on other ways to do the same type of work. One great example this year has been Blame Drew’s Cancer. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Social media. That’s just one simple example to re-purpose content. Use social media as micro-blogging platforms. Podcast feed. Webinars and teleseminars.

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Marketing Blogger Forums Syndication 35

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

After all, Facebook could eat the web. In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. Don’t use a Facebook Group. Your Facebook Page should be created under your primary Facebook login.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

A blog is no longer used to merely publish blog type content. The good news is, all blog software automatically provide this feature out of the box. Social media. That’s just one simple example to re-purpose content. Use social media as micro-blogging platforms. Podcast feed. Webinars and teleseminars.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Don’t make your social media efforts half-assed. Don’t check in on Twitter and Facebook once or twice a week and only for 10 minutes. I understand that some people may have other responsibilities on top of social media. If you’re going to engage in social media, do it! I see that too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Although there are other types of content out there that you could post on your blog, that usually means you need to write great blog posts. What’s a good example of this? There are a few bloggers who are smart and great writers … like you for example, Tamar. It’s not worth it. Bit you are the exception!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Here are seven video examples that have become viral phenomenons in their own right. There has to be some type of emotional reaction or sensation that occurs in the viewer in order to keep them engaged and do whatever call to action you are looking for. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

There are a few jokes going around the blogosphere right now regarding what it means to be a social media expert. Now that the stay-at-home-moms (and dads) are finding their way to a five-figure Twitter follow count, they’re offering all types of services and branding themselves as all-round experts. The first is personal.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

I also remember being “elected&# as the note-taker in high school; one of the easiest ways to absorb lecture notes and book notes was to type up questions and answers in a frequently asked questions document and ask myself the questions again and again. May there be more of you in the future, those people that follow your example.

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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. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Thanks guys.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

One of the reasons I type so well today is because I started typing on a laptop when I was six, and really fell in love with it. Carl : Possibly when you don’t even know how to type yet. If you don’t know how to type or just put something like, “cupcakes are awesome&# then you’re too young.

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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Journal 241

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

You need to have a thoroughly compelling social piece. Those who engage in social media have an inherent thirst for interesting information. They seek information that satisfies some type of curiosity. The key here is making the mechanics of the social networks transparent.

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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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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. identity.

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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. Each valuable, providing different types of information. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web. .

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Some examples follow: What are Your Chances of Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse? 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. Quiz yourself on relationships or just random trivia and see how well you score.

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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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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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. What other social media fallacies do you have? Those type of comments are why I do it. Leave a comment please. Bravo, man.

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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

MAY 28, 2010

Social media rocks because it’s one of the most amazing tools for “free&# market research. If you’re the frugal type, take advantage of the free alerts from Google, YackTrack , Social Mention , BackType (which gives you alerts from blog/article comments , which other services do not include), and Trackur.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new. People feel cheated and mis-used.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? What type of program is this? Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Conv…convinceandconvert.com [.] [link] Jason Baer Thanks so much.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Their domain name Their post type – length, frequency and value. Further, if we also take a close look at some of the domains, you will notice they try to establish a type of authority for the blogger. For example, by looking at ProBlogger, we are being told that the owner is not an amateur but a pro blogger.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner actually lets you schedule different Twitter backgrounds, bios, and profiles, so that you can see which profile types might get the most engagement. If they have too many friends and not many followers, for example, you might not want to follow them. Profile design rotator. Twitter CRM. Tweet frequency. Tweet activity.

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Applications Review Statistics URL 179

Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

After that I’m going to give two examples in different industries showing how you can use these services – and the information they generate – to your advantage. I first came across the benefits of this tool when I started advertising on Facebook. How Often Links are Shared on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So you tweet and facebook for a living! So I challenged myself to create a list of 10 responsibilities of the Community Manager that extend beyond the realm of Facebook and Twitter (and yes, even blogging). Your sales people are on Facebook half the day, and your receptionist tweets way too much during work. Ever wonder why?

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. As I type right now I have Zicam in both nostriles and I’ve been taking it for 3 days. I have started a group on Facebook called Warning! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My only questionable tweets are actually about business projects (yes, I am NameCheap’s new marketing consultant as Michelle Greer moves onto bigger and better things ). I try to limit the types of tweets that I send and keep them professional or relevant to my audience. Call them cliques if you will. Many don’t overlap.

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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.

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

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. Darren suggests having a memorable design, trying your hand at being a character (e.g.

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

You may want to create a custom Twitter background, custom Facebook fan page landing tab (with FBML) and custom YouTube channel backgrounds. I have seen people mix up colors on their YouTube Channels, Twitter profiles, and Facebook fan pages. If your colors are green and white, use those colors all over your social profiles.

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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

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. If you have the mindset to make Facebook a professional tool, you certainly can turn it into one.

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A quick and handy way to get a snapshot of the “social media rank&# of any website. Metrics include traffic stats from Alexa, Compete and Quantcast; backlinks and results by search engine; backlinks and mentions on the major social news sites and more. The 39 Social Media Tools I’ll Use Today by Social Media Today.

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