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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics. We agreed to forward the information on to this group of members, and asked for their permission to share their contact information with Royal Caribbean. This is Cruise Critic’s sole involvement in this program.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

First and foremost, Facebook only works with a select group of partners. Finding these users is possible only when you have enormous amounts of search data. FBX resembles other ad exchanges in most respects, but there are some key differences. If you want to participate in FBX, you have to go through one of these partners.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 13, 2012

The school filed an appeal to change the time of the game with the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools , or TAPPS, the group that organizes the tournament. Although there was a Facebook group, people wanted and needed something more professional to attempt to effectuate change.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

As you can see, HootSuite is also great for monitoring brand awareness amongst varying genders and age groups, which will be able to affect the approach you take to upcoming marketing strategies on your social platforms. Internet Video Tracking.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Today, MySpace can be grouped under this category. When a social network reaches the maturity stage, there are much fewer new user registrations and many people quit using the service altogether or elect to close their accounts. Adding new features to the existing network would reduce the user turnover rate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 1, 2011

Danny Wong is the social media maniac for BL Group , which powers the startups Blank Label , Thread Tradition and RE:custom. Beautiful friendships are the ones that have only the best intentions acting in the most genuine manner, which is how social media for businesses should be handled.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 17, 2011

Sponder is a board member emeritus at the Web Analytics Association, a member of the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO), and a member of the Certified Institute of Public Relations Social Media Measurement Study Group (CIPR). Like this post?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 19, 2012

Customers visit to ask questions and share knowledge, finding and sharing answers that power a tight-knit group of brand advocates. As a result, Symantec Connect has logged 900,000+ pieces of content, creating a gigantic, interactive knowledge center that monitors itself. Strong communities require the right touch.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 17, 2012

A hotel group had a 170% increase in room upgrades. Here are just a few specific examples of the improvements that our clients have seen in website performance over the last year using video: Virgin Holidays saw a year on year 30% uplift in seat upgrades, which translated to £3 million revenue.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Your post offers good suggestions – far better than starting a support group. Getting both partners on the same page is really important!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2012

It’s about finding the right Twitter followers, managing a Facebook ad campaign, and attracting blog subscribers and members of LinkedIn Groups. Engagement and community building is the time-consuming task of connecting with relevant social media participants.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

Without this, it is difficult or perhaps impossible to have expectation a group will actually form around your content or brand. Jeremiah Owyang is a web strategist and partner at Altimeter Group, a research based advisory firm focused on the latest technology innovations. Editor’s note: Interested in getting in on the beta?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Nearly 10% of Facebook’s membership protested by joining other groups demanding that Facebook shut down the News Feed. In September 2006, after Facebook had nearly 10 million members, the News Feed was announced, which the team had been working on for almost a year.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

There are a small group of users who are affected by the same problem, but we’re too small a group for Rose or his cronies to pay atrention to. Reply Rich September 26, 2007 at 7:55 am Due to a problem with Digg (something to do with the server y.digg.com) I can’t use it any more.

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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).

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MAY 9, 2008

I eager to see some Mixx functionalities especially the groups that can really reshape the Digg frontpage and push usability up for users… ok maybe marketing companies pushing for digg frontpage won’t be happy, but hey its a community, there’ll be always good opportunity, just gonna change the approach.

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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

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d love to befriend everyone or even specify groups of friends to which I’d subscribe so that I can get updates delivered to my RSS reader (versus other updates that I would check on a more infrequent basis), though for the time being, the team has not worked that out.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2015

Finding this elusive 2nd-tier group of bloggers was quite a bit more challenging than scanning “top 50 lists.” After realizing that we were aiming a little too high, we decided to shoot for people getting around 15-30 comments per post. But that’s where we got stuck. No one was publishing lists of up-and-comers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Typically, a fair portion of the class involves group work and some interactive elements — we’ve had discussions, card games, Jeopardy, chart-making, a range of Montessori activities, videos, song-writing and much more.

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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. Ideally, if you cover ground on at least two of these traits, your video might have a good chance of success.

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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?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar. Reply Tamar Weinberg May 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm Tove, I still would never recommend groups. It’s an irritant.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Reply FreeMarket Media Group March 2, 2008 at 4:15 pm I am pretty liberal when accepting friends on the Social Networking sites. In the business world, social networks help professionals share industry expertise and facilitate business networking. thus your persona’s.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

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

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 3, 2012

Rather than blindly putting a program out into the social ether, customizing messages for true communities/groups increases your odds of connecting with an audience that will be receptive and potentially act as brand advocates. Likewise, a local, personalized approach through social media can forge a stronger bond with influencers online.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The latter group is pretty hard to help and I’m not inclined to try. I have started a group on Facebook called Warning! Reply KJR December 13, 2008 at 9:52 am Sorry that Facebook Group should be: Warning! Others are still digging that hole while they ask for help. Reply Gabe H. Don’s Use Zicam. I urge you to join.

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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. Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Crucially, their expectations have changed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. This is because so much of it is being produced at a loss to the creator (as noted by Mr Murdoch recently).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

FriendFeed Groups – The Fast Track to Content and Community (Knowthenetwork.com): How can you use FriendFeed groups to your advantage? Suggested Guide for Writing Effective Blog Posts (PMA Media Group): Blogging isn’t always just about opening a “new post&# link and typing your thoughts. Explanations within.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community.&# This is an great example of a company that gets it and has moved the needle because of it. Time will tell if they got the message. Congrats to the Roger Smith Hotel!

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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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. Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog.

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

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. Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Curious people are driven to push into new group and solve problems in new ways. A regular marketer is usually product minded and aims products (or content, or whatever) at target groups, while a social media marketer is consumer minded and matches groups of people with products.

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