Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# After leveraging guest posting on a blog to successfully get more followers on Twitter, Stacey found Twitter to be a necessary addition to her social media strategy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are interested in this new “social media” thing but haven’t actually dipped their proverbial toes in the social waters yet. However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. Subscribed.

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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

JULY 15, 2009

After you’re quite certain you’re ready to dig into the social media world and you have formulated a strategy , the latter half of the book will guide you through popular existing tools that can ease your way into social media. How do I craft a corporate strategy for blogging ? When should I use Digg ?

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Communities Marketing MySpace Yahoo 170

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Many companies partake in this “shiny toy syndrome&# and do it all without a plan or strategy in place. With social media, an abundance of resources are at your fingertips. If I’m managing your Twitter account , you might find a response from me at 11 PM on a Saturday night or 2 AM on a Tuesday.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Also, if one is considering SEO as part of that strategy, they’ll need to blog on their own site. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Answers Yahoo!

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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. Yes it will. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

I spoke with Brian Simpson, Director of Social Hospitality, for more insights into how social media became an asset for Roger Smith, and I learned some great things. Brian Simpson is a cancer survivor and discovered Twitter in the spring of 2008 when he endured the grueling process of chemotherapy for a period of 7 months.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Business , Marketing , Social Media > Social Media Strategy from A to Z Social Media Strategy from A to Z by Tamar Weinberg on May 28, 2010 Share Social media might be old. Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Writing on social media strategy has still gotten me my share of dance and fashion clothing pitches. I don’t blog about new products unless it suits me or my readers. My responses are often along the lines of, “Thanks, but my blog covers social media marketing strategy. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

As such, it has been selected as the generic social network of choice. Niche network: Sphinn : In the red corner we have Sphinn – a social news network dedicated purely to online marketing news and discussion. Subsequently, Sphinn is perhaps the most relevant niche social network on the web. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. There was only one occasion when the users were able to make a lasting impression on the social news site. I live twittered hour 23 and 24 of my last story submission to Digg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Reply Sean - Blogging Strategies August 1, 2010 at 7:01 am I thought a deadly blog writing sin would be something like a blog without being updated for many months because it will have bad effects for not being regularly updating your blog! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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). That’s how you use your co-worker’s use of the web to further the company’s marketing strategy!

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

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. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

In the past few weeks, however, even Digg’s other top users are seeing that Digg is becoming more difficult of a social news site to enjoy, and after stepping away from Digg for awhile, I have some thoughts and reflections on how it was and possibly how it should be. Did I even Twitter the link? Did I promote by IM?

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook by Tamar Weinberg on December 10, 2008 Share Social media mimics real relationships — in many cases.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list. Marketing on the Social Web: A Few Key Ingredients (Michael Fruchter): I love the graphic. 10 Tips for Social Media Marketers (PR Squared): Todd Defren tells you how to jump into social media marketing. .&#

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media , Viral Marketing > When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Sad, actually. Good thoughts. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Viral content takes research, time, and dedication, but on the plus side, your users will likely be talking about your masterpieces for months (or years) to come. What’s stopping you from taking the plunge?

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Social Media Content SEO Examples 180

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web. Don’t just broadcast the same messages to your Twitter and Facebook followers. You can elect to do this one of two ways.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

The only investment in the act of marketing on the social web is time and energy. Thankfully, you don’t have to go at social media marketing alone. Engagement in a process called brand evangelism is one beneficial strategy to get your brand known and to help spread your message. Subscribe to service-specific alerts (e.g.

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Brands MySpace Yahoo StumbleUpon 139

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. You market, by not marketing.

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Sites Social Media Digg Blogosphere 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Their monetization strategy What they have in common Their Blog Age I will be using when they started writing blog posts to calculate their blog age which can be found in their blog archives. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

With regards to Search Conference, I refer to Search Marketing Expo, PubCon, and Search Engine Strategies, but I also met a few people at Affiliate Summit. Digg is by far the largest; as a former “top user&# of the service , I built strong relationships with employees and users of the social news site. It’s not.

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Facebook LinkedIn Social Networking Microblogging 233

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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Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Yup, you can’t just chat with people on Twitter and broadcast on Facebook. Social media needs to be coupled with a creative strategy for maximum effectiveness, especially as everyone and their mothers join these sites and services to market themselves, their services, or their products. Thanks James!

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Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

To succeed, they need to do the following well: Data analysis Provides holistic strategies to clients Training, presenting, and research Relationship-building and networking Outreach to online users and bloggers A social media marketer’s job never ends. They usually work 70 hour weeks and need to be extremely flexible.

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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Top 29 Niche Social Media Sites (That Actually Send Traffic) : Andy Hagans consistently updates this list with some great resources that aren’t necessarily being tapped into by many folks, but maybe it’s time for things to change. Reddit Tips from the Top Dog on Reddit (Social News Watch): How do you become a top user on Reddit?

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

I was excited at the prospect that there might be some freedom for someone who was forced to clearly break every rule that was in the ethical Internet Marketing handbook. Link Building : Part of a search engine marketing strategy includes the process of building relevant links to your website.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Once you fire up your social media strategy, it doesn’t travel as fast as that silver bullet either. Social media is a lengthy, tedious process. Most of social media relates to relationship building, which is a time-consuming process. If someone has over 20,000 Twitter followers, how many people are they following?

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Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

An Interview with Language Trainers, Creators of the Accent Game by Tamar Weinberg on July 29, 2008 Share If you haven’t yet seen the Language Trainers Accent Game , it has won the “best viral marketing strategy of 2008″ (in my eyes). As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

Don’t look at me, I have weezer’s pat on twitter. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Thanks guys!

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Meme Marketing Digg StumbleUpon 113

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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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

, also gathering intelligence via their rankings on top social sites and by stumbling upon new items in my feed reader. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Social Media: Hiring and in the Workplace.

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