The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2007

51 am Linkedin v/s Facebook – Professional up Against Social Jump to Comments Matt Dickman’s thoughtful post on Linkedin v/s Facebook raises a few questions. Everybody knows and has been saying that Facebook is Personal and Linkedin is more Business users. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

So, don’t get paralyzed by the cross group challenges - move it forward and determine where the opportunities to improve customer experience are for what “you control&# and drive progress there - then fan out with your early successes. © 2008 Community Group Therapy. Social Web. Content still is king.

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The Marketing Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home About In the Media Dear Airtel: It is about Customers & Conversations Facebook and India August 3, 2010.6:07 Time has passed by and since then, Facebook has grown to half a billion global users and would fall next only to China and India if it were a country. The bottom line is, Facebook isn’t a one size fits all solution.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

« Professional services network offsite: Tapping the Power of Collaboration | Main | Audio stream of radio interview on Facebook, networks, connectivity, and media » Eight steps to thriving on information overload. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |. Share on Facebook. Top 100 Web 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

A while back I created a post called – There is no “campaign&# in Social Media because when marketers use the word “campaign,” it tends to suggest an initiative to get a message out to a targeted group of constituents. Share this on Facebook. Share this on Reddit. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin.

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The Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 5 Comments Filed under BarCamp Tags: BarCamp , BarCamp Delhi , BCD5 , delhi , Google , open source , Social media , startup , twitter 5 Comments Sesso January 22, 2009 at 12:25 pm Great site. & The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

But now the platforms have diversified, today there are Indians heavily discussing social media on twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. The idea is not to create a feeling of competition but a strong group which can collectively spread social media usage in India. influential Indians in social media on Facebook etc.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

When you have a group of people submitting their work, there is an awareness that it isn’t just one idea that will work, so the result is a higher quality of work. Crowdsourcing is an useful model because it can be used by any group for any reason. Facebook Create a Facebook Page and tell everyone about it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Netgear Joins the Web 2.0 Jason Calacanis launched yet another discussion of the future of the web with his official definition of web 3.0 , in which web 2.0 Maybe instead of getting tangled up in discussions of what’s web 1.0 vs. web 2.0 vs. web 3.0, or web 3.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

A seminar is different from a regular course in that it necessarily involves interaction with the students — a seminar is to a regular lecture course as web 2.0 is to web 1.0. The professors’ styles feel like a comparison of LinkedIn and Facebook. Answers Yahoo!

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 31, 2007

Popular MBA discussion groups like pagal guy , cool-avenues , job forums, web directories , scripts and other talks are still pretty much a part of traditional discussion forums. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

surveys, focus groups, test marketing) often spend millions to locate their target markets. You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Certainly the new array of social media and Web 2.0 Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |. Share on Facebook. Jun 20, 2008 — Digital Media — Aus Web 2.0 Jun 19, 2008 — ITWire — Australias top Web 2.0 who should drive Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

That doesn’t typically fly elsewhere (Facebook will kill the account), but Times Square on Friendster required 2 accounts at the time because I maxed out on the initial 500 person limit. The High Point: Facebook In 2004, I joined Facebook and my behavior changed drastically. I had many friends just like that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Smaller companies could succeed with this method by marketing — verbally or through their website — to groups of devout followers and keeping their Twitter streams current (offering a daily deal or frequent deals that encourage customers to seek out discounts and sales). So while I love Facebook , Twitter fulfills many needs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site. What do you choose?

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For passionate bikers and sports watch lovers there’s a Fastrack group on Facebook. The group is a platform to bring the biker community together – from India and overseas – to discuss trends, issues, products & offers, tips & advice, events and more…related, of course, to biking and maybe the great outdoors.

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The Marketing Blog

JULY 30, 2007

The other day I was doing a bit of search (organic search) for a cheap, reliable, quality (wow i.e. quite a bit) web-hosting provider. Did a bit of research, read some e-mails in my discussion group, talked to a couple of net experts ( not geeks but domain pros). The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 22, 2008

Target Audience The target audience is from 15-30 years of age group, youngsters who spend a lot of time on net and need a break and some thing fun and exciting to do, or when one is generally getting bored. The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 However, I still review some Web 2.0

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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 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. You can easily determine if your friends are interested in marketing, photography, books, music, web 2.0

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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. The major “Web 2.0″ This new world is an evolution of the Web and it cannot be undone. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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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 For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Of course I do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Finally, you can preview your image (or select the desired image if multiple images are on the page), add a title, description, and tags, choose a category, and submit the story to private groups (if you’re a member of any). I started an SEO group over there, so anyone that wants in just shoot me your user name through my blog.

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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. Therefore, it’s a force to be reckoned with.

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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.’ For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans. We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. This article is an example of that. Answers Yahoo!

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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. We received a second, similar request, in October, 2008.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. Facebook’s plateauing of traffic (data out today) may be explained by such a hypothesis. My gut reaction (and my hope!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Unfortunately for Digg, the savviest users of the bunch have also been the most vocal about Digg thus far (save for the few blogs that cover everything web 2.0 As a side point, Google is a bigger beast and it has tens or hundreds of staff members visiting forums and moderating groups to ensure that the user experience is a good one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? Answers Yahoo!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The lack of understanding between busy and burst goes beyond just the inability of the busy to see the value in using Web 2.0 This is why it is almost always bad to have a Help Desk Manager take over a Design group. He posts the doc to the group wiki and flies to Geneva on his way to Toulouse. Let’s see how.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Reddit and Mixx , on the other hand, live on a karma system. I can’t compare this kind of competitiveness to that on Reddit or Mixx, because the metrics available are only the karma points (and associated awards) but no real rankings. I may even actually return to Digg to submit stories again. To them, this meant a whole lot.

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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. Once the web 2.0

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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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