Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. 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. Answers Yahoo!

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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.

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Laurel Papworth

AUGUST 3, 2010

In 2007 I blogged on Kevin07 portal: We will see more of ‘static portal hybrid hosted social networks’ for a while – companies and government distancing themselves from the challenges of social networks by outsourcing to social network platforms. That’s how it works. Please spell out I.R.O.N.Y

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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. In social media spheres, it’s almost unavoidable to not engage online with content in some way.

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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. The major “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. Establishing a social media strategy will help you see where potential customers are hanging out. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Here are five steps you can take: Review In a committed relationship, if there is any hint of disagreement in the social space, it’s time to sit down and look at one another’s social networks. Most of my social network profiles are business-related, however I have reserved a couple for friends and family only.

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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). Answers Yahoo!

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. And for that reason, you should join–now. It’s instant.

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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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s great to build a self-sustainable social network and then be able to sit back and relax while the users run the show. 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. And Reddit doesn’t stop there.)

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

It is the younger generation that Tom mentions as possible change agents who use web 2.0 Social Computing. Social Media. Social Media Summit. Social Networking. Social Objects. Social Work-net-ing. Web Advertising. Web Services. Gilbane Group. Robert Scoble.

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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. Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. Crucially, their expectations have changed. Answers Yahoo!

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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. One of the things I look for nowadays when I visit sites is how well they’re integrating their social network presences. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Asking this group of users to go from this to using a wiki was a gigantic step that they weren’t ready to take. Before rolling out ANY type of social media application, whether it’s blogs, or a wiki, or microblogging, make sure that you do an assessment of your user culture first. Enjoy the conference! Enjoy the conference!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Of course, as you can see in the second map above, “there are obvious biases in the data, with 15- to 30-year-olds being by far the biggest groups of users. billion undirected edges, creating the largest social network constructed and analyzed to date. Networking. Social Networks. Collaboration 2.0.

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Instant Messaging Trends Microsoft Wireless 130

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? Three cheers for them!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Comments on this article can be sent to the author at chris_dede@harvard.edu and/or can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. For example, in Wikipedia, “knowledge&# is constructed by negotiating compromises among various points of view. The term Web 2.0 In contrast, the Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

At the end of the day, we know most people are active on social networks because they have some reason for being there (be it to make a sale or to establish authority, for example), but through your regular interactions, you need to recognize that these are byproducts of your genuine and authentic involvement. Answers Yahoo!

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Viper Chill

MAY 3, 2010

Im amazed on how you get so much traffic from Stumbleupon since that social network isnt really for marketing types of stuffs right? Reply Drew @ web 2.0 Reply Drew @ web 2.0 Here in Bloomington, Illinois you rank #2 for viral marketing…behind only a wikipedia entry. 2 is fantastic!

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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 This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Social Media isn’t only Social Networks. Work With Web Developers to Update Your Site for Web 2.0 The difference is updating your website to Web 2.0. Once the web 2.0 Once the web 2.0 But I’m not going to coach you on how to design a web 2.0

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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. And that’s the key differentiator of social media: we, the consumers, can have one loud voice, that companies and other people listen to.

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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. Digg has taken away the official top users list and has evened out the algorithm to curb “friendly&# digging groups. It is unfair to deem the algo changes as penalties.

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 1, 2009

I would have liked to point this campaign to my San Francisco friends, who also happen to be active web users, who themselves have a large “following&# via blogs, social networks, Twitter, et al. Just when I was about to give up hope, I decided to click the Share link, hoping to see links to my favorite social networks!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Aggregate Your Other Social Streams If you’re only on Facebook, this step isn’t for you. Hopefully, though, you’re considering other social networks to broaden your social media reach. That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar.

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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. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

They both have their places in the web 2.0 and social media sphere. It makes sense, it’s easy to navigate, you can find people, groups (cliques), you can search, it’s the hidden secret of microblogging/social networking! You may find yourself comfortable using just one or both. But PLURK?

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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! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Reply Gabe H.

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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?) People use both networks as a free-for-all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Social Media: Getting Started Why You Have to Engage in Social Media, Even if You Don’t Want to (A Smart Bear): Jason Cohen (@asmartbear) makes a compelling argument into why social media must be considered, even if you have no interest in it. The article has examples of how social media worked too.

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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. If you take time to see what other community members find interesting, then you might get inspired to craft content that would be interesting to the social internet at large. Still stuck? Check out these viral ideas.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

He talks of a group on Facebook that has a goal to build an organization that has enough political clout to achieve ends to end poverty. Lacy : When you compare Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, I think that fewer companies are as successful in the Web 2.0 Zuckerberg : It was a group decision, really.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

but I was an early adopter of social networks from when I first opened my 3.5″ On the other hand, my first ever interaction on AOL was with someone who was separated from my social network by only one degree. I’m a little younger than that (finally, I can say that!), hour (after a flat rate of $9.95

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