Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

When contrasted with the StumbleUpon model, the FriendFeeds and Diggs of the world seem to have the process backwards. The examples you gave of people copying full text of a story somewhere else is in the very slim minority from my experience. This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months. This article is an example of that. This is an great example of a company that gets it and has moved the needle because of it. However, things have changed. Answers Yahoo!

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

The goal, if I understand you correctly, is not to help everyone, but to make everyone feel like they’re being helped (and hopefully helping some people in the process). Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo!

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Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

When this process occurs two page views are counted instead of one, thereby lowering the bounce rate. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic. However, bounce rate data for StumbleUpon is misleading. This trend is discussed further by Jamie Harrop and Rebecca Murphey. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Social media isn’t going away, but this example shows that some systems just happen to work better than others. I know many are already in the process of trying out other social networks, so the phenomenon of social news won’t die down anytime soon. Some people have resorted to gaming that system. Answers Yahoo!

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JUNE 27, 2008

Michael Wesch, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University is best known on the net for that video, The Machine is Us/ing Us , which is a great example of how to use the medium to convey a message thats more than just scripted rhetoric, but that has meaning. Side note: great interview with Wesch here ).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

This is exactly the process of the Royal Caribbean marketing team, a move that in 2007 was seen as virtually unheard of. I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example. Why not encourage the spread of goodwill? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Their YouTube page, ironically, only features a playlist of videos that they love but does not show any videos made by themselves, such as the process of making a Peanut Butter Cup. Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. Wouldn’t you love to see how they’re made? I know I would.)

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

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

MARCH 17, 2010

He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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.&# I’ve seen internet marketers who sell products designed to help accounts gain hundreds of followers, which defeats the process of engaging an audience with outstanding content.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2009

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. This is a process that needs to happen continually, or you should at least give the perception that you’re putting your heart into it. Is it really in your best interest to do it then?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. It’s surprising to see how few people actually do it! Read a lot.

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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.), For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller. People who can do all this well are Social Media Marketing Rockstars!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

As an example, if you’re a business who predominantly focuses on IT infrastructure solutions but recently was involved in a tremendous Thanksgiving initiative through your local food bank, you certainly are within your right (and should) tell people about it. Let me use a good example that’s relevant to me: Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

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. Laser (Web Strategist): There are two (of many) approaches you can take in your social media strategy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

One example of this is that we just launched internationally: Facebook was always available for people to use but only in English. Do they feel they’re getting their money’s worth (especially because sites like Digg and MySpace may not be)? Lacy : You view this as a social graph and you see this as a multi-decade process.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social media is a lengthy, tedious process. Most of social media relates to relationship building, which is a time-consuming process. Should you proceed either in-house or by outsourcing, you need to respect that social media marketing is a process, requiring a substantial investment of time, and thus, money. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

Natural language processing : search engines should begin to understand documents stored online. Maybe that’s a bad example. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Everyone laughs.] Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Link Building : Part of a search engine marketing strategy includes the process of building relevant links to your website. Keyword stuffing, for example, might have worked 5 years ago, but it’s not a successful tactic anymore. This often includes submissions to directories and contacting webmasters of related websites.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. Customize Your Tab With FBML Beyond simple HTML you can also enter very simple FBML tags to simplify some of the process. Here’s an example of a simple tab I set up: Welcome! This applies to Pages as well. My name is.

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Facebook How To Applications URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Why Social Media Belongs in Your Internet Marketing Campaign (Bruce Clay): The Lisa goes through three successful examples of good social media applications and illustrates why they grabbed her attention. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&# Shimon literally gave away his trade secret with this one. But is it Spam?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

A national survey of reporters and editors revealed that 89% use blogs for story research, 65% turn to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and 52% utilize microblogging services such as Twitter. 75% of B2B marketers use microblogging tools such as Twitter vs. 49% of B2C marketers. While 28% of U.S.

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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. Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. Sadly enough, most people don’t know that their content is public; a wonderful example is seen below. Of course not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Build your brand by association By working for brand names, you gain more credibility in the process. For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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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. One example is Mint and the insights they offer via their blog. She was the epitome of this example! (I Previously, Nich wrote for Valleywag and InternetNews.com.

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Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : The SEO Success Pyramid : Matt McGee talks about the process of making great websites. A List of Social Media Marketing Examples : Peter Kim has an exhaustive list of companies engaging in social media. He explores examples and shows how hard it is to be a moderator of a site like this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

In fact, “perfection&# in SEO is an impossibility since SEO is an ongoing process. I also appreciate your characterization of both as ongoing processes (social media is not an event). 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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Why not work with small businesses and those affected most by this policy change to find something that would work better for them that does not complicate the process or require a substantial financial investment? I think people opted for FB over MySpace because of so many of the reasons people are becoming disenchanted with FB right now.

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