Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2011

I asked a big brand on Twitter for help and they gave me a canned response. I miss the days when social media was more personalized. A big US brand with over 100,000 Twitter followers has run into the problem that I tweeted about above. Of course, shared links on social networks also drive traffic. Like this post?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

LinkedIn is so much more than social networking for businesses and business people – it can totally change how you run your business as a whole. Remember, you’re not on Facebook, Google+, or MySpace here – this is a social network for business professionals. Establish Authority. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Tools are a wonderful part of today’s information age, but if you’re going to use “social networks&# or that thing we call “social media,&# it’s important to remember the common denominator: the social. Networking is the key component for social media success.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Make people feel like they’re a part of something bigger than some back-and-forth chit-chat on their favorite social network. I just suggested that you emphasize sales more in your social media plan. It might happen after solving a customer’s problem because of a social network complaint, for example.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

This is no less true for the world of social networks. 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. Let’s be honest for a second here. The major “Web 2.0″

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 7, 2010

They have REALLY engaged social networks. For some it is Twitter and Facebook. For me personally, my two favorite parties are Twitter and Facebook. There is a misconception on social networking sites that you are either a conversationalist or a marketer. Digital schomoozers. You know the type. Schmoozing.

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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. That is, of course, if your friends are using Twitter. You never know until you check out their feed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

by Tamar Weinberg on December 19, 2007 Share How do you leverage different social networks? I am fascinated by the amount of social networks that I’m part of, but better yet, I’m intrigued to find that I assume different “personas,&# at least in terms of choosing friends (and using the networks), on each social site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Here a few useful tools to make sharing easy and fast: Tweetstimonials : This plugin for your website allows you to showcase testimonials and shout outs that your fans and followers post about you on Twitter. Social proof, in action! Even that tiny Twitter bio counts! Make a memorable first impression. Your bio is a big deal.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

It gives you a good sense of how far your message traveled on Twitter — I get that this isn’t always the best metric, but if you have breaking news, it’s nice to be able to equate how far and fast news traveled on Twitter in a way that most executives recognize: number of tweets, top twitterers and impressions!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2012

It’s important to think of interesting ways to visualize online activities, to direct traffic to your social networks or to get people to download an app. Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 17, 2012

Bad customer service will get you banned from major advertising networks, skewered in organic results, and ridiculed on social networks. Follow him on Twitter @rodnitzky or visit his AdWords blog. Treat customers badly and you will be out of business – period! Advertising Bans. Attack of the Consumer! Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show). Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Gab Goldenberg writes a search marketing blog for which he has plenty of good arguments for you to follow by RSS feed. Tagged as: blogs , college , forums , law school , seminars , social media , vbulletin , wordpress { 2 trackbacks } What Can I Do For You, Commentators? So thanks for making this more enjoyable. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. 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). Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Do the same thing for your social networks, and your other interactions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

In today’s day and age, it is incredibly easy for a person to set up his personal web space to start sharing whatever is on his mind (and you begin to wonder why Twitter’s growth is so huge and popular among celebrities ?) That’s not to say it should only be done on Twitter though. It’s like THE CLUB.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Maybe it’s on Twitter. If this is your first time diving in the social media waters, it’s going to be difficult to make a splash. You’ll be creating that Twitter account for the first time, and you’ll have to grow followers. That’s not really convincing social proof. Thankfully, now I am.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The internet and technology ownership has changed everything: digital TV, mobile phones, iPods, weblogs, instant messaging, [and] social networking. Tagged as: media snackers , social media , web 2.0 { 6 trackbacks } Media, Mm Mm Good! Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

I, too, find that Twitter has been incredibly powerful for me to connect with real life colleagues, readers of Techipedia, family, and everyone in between. I’m also something of a Twitter purist. Enter a second Twitter account. With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Despite the fact that Facebook has the most customizable privacy settings of all social networks (though we could argue with their effectiveness in a whole other post), people don’t like maintaining a “business&# identity on the same profile as their “personal&# (fun?)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The next evolution in content discovery came with the social revolution. The introduction of social feeds by Facebook, Twitter and other social networks changed the way that people discovered content. We are consuming more and more content from our social feeds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

I live twittered hour 23 and 24 of my last story submission to Digg. If you also ask me, Digg has had a lot of vocal supporters and those voices are going to be preaching about other social networks now. You may as well just subscribe to about 50 feeds and you have digg. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). After all, every interaction shows up on the Fan’s news feed. This is basic News Feed Optimization. Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. There are takeaways from this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Linkedin lead generation requires commitment to answering and asking questions on Groups/Answers, taking advantage of the deep searches, and connecting directly with those around you in your network. Let me port my RSS feed to it and be done with it!&# Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Engagement. Opt-in, not out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

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. How you use social media depends on your frame of mind. Did I even Twitter the link? Because competition is not as pathological as you think. Did I promote by IM?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. Brief Overview of StumbleUpon Since everyone is mostly raving about Twitter and Facebook as of late, I’m going to briefly define StumbleUpon and explain how it works. Still stuck? Check out these viral ideas.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Follow him on Twitter. If you look around the social web a lot like me, you will agree that most social media campaigns suck. Some people think social media is just fun. If you have your brand name as your Twitter handle and a portrait photo of you on your profile, you are getting it all wrong. And that was the UK.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Google and Microsoft are going after social networks and some people feel aren’t monetizable. There’s a trend that these social networks or social services have moved from monolithic sites to a collection of social services. Lacy : It’s interesting that you compare the News Feed and Beacon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

9 Ways to Start a New Local Business Using Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, and Google : These easy (and mostly affordable steps) can put your local business on the map. Don’t Abuse Social Network Pings : Social media gives you ways to connect with people you know easily, but there are certain etiquette rules to take into consideration.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 22, 2011

Rapportive is a social CRM, giving you important information about the person who is emailing you. If they’re connected via social networks, you get their picture, their location, and job titles, in addition to their Twitter feed and Facebook updates (if available) and links to their social profiles.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Books Take Time to Write Last week, a Twitter user asked a really blunt but surprising question about how to download my book (legally) for free. Consequently, I got chewed out both on Twitter and following that on her own blog, telling me that I should have responded nicely and recommended the library.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

Some said we lost our innocence in the Kaycee Nicole scandal, but there still exists a vast network of potential support out here in the social networks, and from time to time scammers succeed in tapping into this resource. People hustling others on social media for a couple of dollars.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. This applies to Pages as well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

There are those of us that dive into Social Media (and SEO to a degree) as a hobby – that is, for FUN. Thankfully, I’ve surrounded myself with some excellent seo talent, signed up for many trusted blogs RSS Feeds in the seo, ppc, social media marketing space. I found your article via Lisa Barone on Twitter.)

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