Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

Digg is the social media network of tech geeks, and the Digg statistics should not be too surprising: 39% of Diggers publish their own blog. A few weeks later, a surprising blog post was published that outed the marketing firm and hosting company that sponsored the particular study. Answers Yahoo!

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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? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. Josh’s examples relate to sites like Digg, which allows a short description, and FriendFeed, which is similar in that respect.

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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

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

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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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

Don’t wait until you need a story published, or until you want to be used as a source. I remember sitting in an ROI webinar with New Marketing Labs’ Justin Levy , and he more or less skimmed through 5 or 6 different measuring tools like Grader, and of course, Google Analytics. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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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. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

For example, here is a recent tweet taken from Ashton Kutcher’s twitter profile: “ @problogger bummer I’ll be there 1 week too early.&# Thanks so much for publishing my guest post, I really appreciate it, -Onibalusi Reply Nick Stewart September 8, 2010 at 9:54 am Great post on twitter. Answers Yahoo!

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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

JANUARY 5, 2012

10 Proven Tips for Getting More Engagement on Your Business Blog RIGHT NOW : There are lots of great tips on how to make a great blog, including not moderating comments, rewarding engagement, giving readers ways to connect with you, publishing posts around the time you get visitors, and more. About to Publish a Post? Publishing videos?

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

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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. A cool, free blog widget that automatically displays links, along with thumbnail images, to related posts on your blog at the bottom of each blog post you publish.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Quick Jump: Social Media: Getting Started, Implementation, and Execution. Social Media (and Beyond): Small Business. Social Media: Hiring and in the Workplace. Social Media: Measurement and ROI. Social Media: General. Leveraging Other Social Media Sites. Reputation Management. Content Development/Marketing.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Little did I know that once I stepped out into the real world that I’d meet teachers that were both knowledgeable and caring, and Chris and Gary are examples of both. Publishing, consulting and regular life all kind of merge on the web and it is sometimes hard to know which hat you have on. I admire that. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Therefore, if you’re serious about blogging, you need to make a concerted effort to learn traditional media/publishing etiquette. Bloggers are clearly in a different position than reporters because they are often also the publisher, and the publisher IS interested in ad sales. Keep the good stuff comin’, Tamar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Whether or not it’s my choice — and in book publishing, there are other parties involved beyond just the writer — it’s just the wrong question to ask. FWIW, someone emailed me earlier today asking for help, not long after this post was published, and maybe *because* this post was published.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

It doesn’t end after you hit “publish.&# Can I publish this though out my (SMALL Network) please! Affiliate marketing, for example, comes to mind. Regardless of how you see it, I now have an officially published blog policy that might be of interest. Blogs must be marketed in order to be successful.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

The big language barrier still exists, for example, when you refer to Java (“not coffee, not the island, but the programming language!&# ) Semantic search : webmasters may not spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to describe what things mean since there’s no motivation for them to do so. Maybe that’s a bad example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Here’s an example of a simple tab I set up: Welcome! That produces something that looks like this: Set Your Page to Default to Your New Tab Now that you’ve created your custom tab using the Static FBML App you may want to set your Page to default to the new tab. My name is. Looking forward win! Any hints please.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

If you’re looking to establish a professional relationship with someone, consider LinkedIn. LinkedIn is still seen as the more professional of the two. Considering the above example, I pose a question on Facebook etiquette: Is it appropriate to let these requests sit in pending mode or to reject the friends outright??

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How to Measure Social Media ROI for Business : Aaron Uhrmacher explains the factors you must consider to see if your social media campaign has had an impact. Social Media ROI : Janet Fouts explains other ways to calculate your ROI on social media. Having a solid LinkedIn profile is a different story. Not excess.

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Here are ten tips that will help you on your journey: Discover your brand A lot of people are rushing to get on social networks, and are forgetting to fill out their profiles, or what their purpose of participation is. Instead, join the top four networks: Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Focus has made all the difference.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

By removing this account, and I’d imagine dozens of others, Facebook set an example, but four years later, name abuse is running rampant on the service. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. I had a good reason to base this on a summer camp example.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Dan’s LinkedIn Profile | Dan’s Tweets – On May 12, 2011 Dan tweeted this: @CarlRWarner @ckburgess I am officially an Army Medical Captain! Consulted on social media and reputation management strategy with Dow, Hearst, IBM, Time/Life, & Barnes&Noble. One example, the word: Aware. Michael Brenner is a Sr.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I think you can struggle in either SEO or social media if you haven’t built up clients and are beginning from only a few assorted examples of work you’ve done for yourself. What if, through your client work, you were tasked with work requiring you to work on a completely different niche — for example, fashion?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

RSS is easily one of the best things to happen to web publishing in the past 10 years. It allows users to easily keep track of news from multiple web sites because updates are delivered directly to them. The example pipe below would filter our feed and return only posts that talk about "Facebook" in the title. 26 Comments.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I’m currently running a Twitter and YouTube contest, for example. You can even publish updates to the users who have liked your own non fan page URLs by Programmatically administering your pages via the Graph API. For example, I get friended daily by people who do not use their real names even though that’s a policy.

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