Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Later, several other websites such as Classmates.com and Friendster contributed to the development of social networking to help reach our present day scenario, where we see the domination of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. Current social networks in the growth stage are Twitter and Facebook.

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Social Networking MySpace Yahoo Case Study 221

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2012

But as BizSugar has grown over the last couple of years, it’s also become a small business networking site where business owners can discuss issues, get and give advice, and gain insight into the ins and outs of running a small business. Actively Manage the Site. Learn to Use the CMS. makes sense for BizSugar.

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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. And while I am not a consultant with the company, we have a partnership agreement that makes them a preferred vendor for Social Media Explorer and our companion learning site, Exploring Social Media. Pretty nifty. David Armano.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Social media “experts&# recommend Twitter and Facebook because they know there’s a critical mass there to reach a desired audience. Of course, there are other sites, but these individuals know one thing: that there are people there who are willing to listen, just as long as you are willing to make a true effort to interact.

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Communities Social Media Influencer Social Networking 269

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

DECEMBER 31, 2009

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. web sites, images, videos, etc.) Evernote allows you to clip anything (e.g.

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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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Social Media Analytics URL Campaign 260

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

It took eight months and hundreds of pages of documentation to get us back on both sites. Google has integrated star ratings from consumer review sites like Epinions or Biz Rate – but only sites with four out of five stars or greater results get an extra line in AdWords with their star ratings. Let’s start with Yelp.

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Adwords Price Review Privacy 171

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. Therefore, you should treat it as such when corresponding with others professionals on the site. Also, the groups on Linkedin are not like your average Facebook group. Find Investors.

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LinkedIn Tips Statistics Groups 234

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 7, 2010

For some it is Twitter and Facebook. Sure it is great to be everywhere, but why not put full effort into a few sites you enjoy and see what happens? For me personally, my two favorite parties are Twitter and Facebook. Helpful On Their Own Sites & Social Media Sites. Show Their Faces. Talking with people.

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Industry Hosting Social Networking News 248

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 It’s going to be their big coming out party on the social media front! It’s going to be their big coming out party on the social media front!

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Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2012

Apart from a great how-to on starting up a site, it highlights the growing trend to buying websites rather than starting from scratch. Like Patrick, anyone who’s tried starting a site from scratch will know first-hand how much work it can be to attract and retain an audience. It’s a sign of the times! Work out a Valuation.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Let’s imagine your blog, brand, or business operates a wide variety of social media from the likes of Facebook and Twitter to StumbleUpon and Instagram. A great tool to collect this kind of data is a site called Klout. The time it would take to collect such a wide variety of data could eat up a good chunk of your day.

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Strategy Klout Marketing Overview 213

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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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Here are a few sites and services that can help you directly sell through social media. 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. Groupon.com — Make local offers. You need to build a willing audience.

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Social Media Strategy How To Foursquare 249

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Add tags to the footer of your site, and all systems go! Facebook still drives the most revenue among the social platforms. Among all AddShoppers data, Facebook was attributed to 69.1% Naturally, that’s because Facebook is the most popular (73.68%). Facebook gets 1.10 This is really cool data. of the revenue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 20, 2010

After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. You couldn’t join Facebook unless you had a college email address on a particular school’s domain, much to their prospective advertisers’ chagrin.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 17, 2012

An understanding of sharing sites, social networking, and search engines is essential if you want to maximize your presence on the Internet. This is not only easy to do, it also has the added bonus of making your video available throughout the Internet – not just your own site. But how do customers find your website? Be creative.

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Video Strategy Marketing How To 178

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. Disappointing offers.

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Social Media Brands RSS Publishing 206

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 20, 2012

Is your brand and site optimized? How to do that varies by industry, but this probably means you should have a developed email marketing program, an active Facebook page, and a phone number with great customer support people answering it. Or are you into them already? Meet Sally. Can you iterate creative? Don’t get to this position.

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Advertising Questions CPA ROI 172

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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Newsletter Handbook Virtual World LinkedIn 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

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. Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood.

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Social Media Strategy StumbleUpon Digg 269

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. Just like it’s not uncommon for someone to click the “Digg&# button on Digg without ever visiting the site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Once they find out which sites you visit, these companies can target you with relevant advertising and spam. Warning…some of these e-mails may look like they are from a legitimate site. Each site has a variety of privacy settings to help you with this. In addition, some search engines retain a history of your web searches.

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Privacy Activities Microsoft How To 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Even if you do not know much about it yourself, check for these qualities and these answers: At the very least, someone hoping to get a job with your company should have a Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn account. If they can manage their personal sites, they have a much better chance of managing your company’s sites. of the U.S.

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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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Social Media Real Estate Survey Eventful 186

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? Beyond the core of people who want to demonstrate their expertise in a niche by blogging, will blogging continue to grow, or will community-oriented sites become more popular? The professors’ styles feel like a comparison of LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Communities, social news sites, and online sharing can be leveraged to build a site following. I just wish we could cookie users on Facebook and Twitter so I could track their conversions… maybe one day! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Showing your expertise—via advice in a Facebook post, a content-rich webinar or a helpful blog article—can foster the kind of sincere connections “telling” alone cannot. The Facebook Like Box : When non-fans visit your website, they can see the faces of all their friends who have already liked your Facebook Page. Translation?

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Social Media How To Authentication Social Bookmarking 195

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 15, 2008

Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM has compiled his own list of the “best posts of 2007″ in a site with a brilliantly and cleverly chosen title, the SEMMYS (Search Marketing Emmys). Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca robots.txt, IP questions for hosting, etc.),

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

This is especially useful when your blog links to a site, or when you are using AdSense or another service to earn off your blog. And some of the images just don’t do other sites justice. I do incorporate stock photos especially in the headers to draw attentiion to my posts when I link to them in Facebook and LinkedIn.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

In addition to sending them an email, friend them on Facebook, become a fan of their page, and follow them on Twitter. Facebook: Moms do love Facebook and following some of the ‘Mommy Mavens’ moms who post a lot and have a lot of followers and likes can clue you into trends and some of the popular mom blogs of the moment.

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Social Media Strategy Jive StumbleUpon 161

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

JUNE 10, 2010

Shelby really liked the TV show Jericho , and at the age of 9, started a site called Jericho4Kids. I was 9 years old when my web site went up, and it was my dream, but a lot of people helped me to make that dream come true, so as kids we might need a little help but we can still go after our dreams.

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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Journal 241

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2008

That means actually using the site for my homework and being very candid on the Quizlet blog about direction and ideas. I think people really feel a connection when the site’s owner is also one of its biggest users. We see sites become successful all the time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

He told me that my site was committing 3 Cardinal Sins and it was holding my ranking back and he could help me. On further investigation this guy had an Alexa ranking of a tad over 25 million for his site whereas mine at the time was about 80,000. great site! I was contacted my a “Social Media Expert&# about 6 months ago.

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