Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us It scares me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to. “I am a relatively new internet marketer trying to break into the industry,&# he wrote.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Don’t try impress me with your funding or whatever industry related things you think you do really well. My eyes glaze over at the site of industry jargon. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

If you are not tapping into the online message boards for your own industry or niche, you’re not doing a thorough job at monitoring the successes or failures of your product. On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Find people talking about your industry and chime in! I’m taking a New Media class at Michigan State University this summer and reading blog posts like yours reminds me that “I am just an egg&# [from "Stranger in a Strange Land"]. I enjoy this group and do engage. I will call this group my social experiment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A good example of this is a recent post on blog lengths in certain industries by Glen Allsopp, who recently guest posted here. By looking at the standard lengths of blogs in certain industries, new bloggers can get a feel for blog word counts that are successful and that which may not be as helpful to grow a new blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

How to Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet in Any Topic (ReadWriteWeb): Marshall Kirkpatrick writes an amazing guide on how you can find thought leaders in any industry. 10 Creative Contests Powered by Social Media (Mashable): You can use social media to do many things: build community, make business decisions, and more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

They set the trends for the industry. In the past 5-10 years, social media has come along and changed advertising and marketing from a dollars and quantity game to a quality game. We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. They dictated what was the right and wrong way to market and advertise.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. You may find people who are surfing outside your social circle who might be potentially interested in your products. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. You never know who you might meet.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Curiosity – most social media marketers that I know are constantly asking ‘what if… ’ type questions. Curious people are driven to push into new group and solve problems in new ways. Perseverance – building a social media presence doesn’t happen over night.

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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

JULY 29, 2010

Better yet, let’s just chat at an upcoming industry event instead of scheduling a dedicated meeting. Reply Jim "Genuine" Turner July 29, 2010 at 9:53 pm Been running this through in my own mind and a have been talking about it a little that we in this industry are in the trust business. Yet people always ask!)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

On the flip side having a strong social media skill set to go along with your SEO skills helps market links, create relationships, and use the available social tools to build out your SEO campaigns. And you wonder why our industry has so many snake oil salesmen? I’ve come from SEO and social networking backgrounds.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

In no particular order, here they are: Make Friends In the Industry Community Managing is super easy when you’re working for a well-known tech company in the middle of Silicon Valley. No matter what industry you’re in – get to know the people in your industry. Who are the heavy hitters? Who are the influencers?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. Over the last 7 months I’ve certainly walked the walk of social media marketing and this post is as plain and simple as a definition gets. Bravo, man. Keep at it.

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