Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

In fact, I don’t think becoming a social media expert is something that people should be worried about; they should be focused on becoming expert communicators instead. Influencers accept that they have a position to hold and won’t abuse it for a quick buck. Highlight Others Do you ever read the tweets of Chris Brogan?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

How to Win Facebook Friends and Influence People (All Facebook): Nick O’Neill’s post on how to become a Facebook power user (read: genuine) is great. How to Make Your Corporate Blog More Social (Social Media Explorer): Dan Zarrella shares small ideas but smart ones that can make your corporate blog a lot more approachable.

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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. At this point, you can be part of it too.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Beth Hrusch is Senior Editor at Interact Media, a business blog writing service that teaches writing tips and best practices. Photos (except for the Twistori screenshot have been provided by Shutterstock.

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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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Then, you use that number as a success metric for influence. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Profy highlights this phenomenon quite well.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Numbers Do Not Dictate Influence There are some people who will automatically follow everyone who follows them on Twitter. As a result, they have incredibly huge following numbers even though their followers may have also used automatic methods to get new followers. Reply Jamie Carter July 7, 2010 at 10:32 am Great article.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. If a company wants to have a stellar reputation today , they better think about giving good customer service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

The Limitations of Social Media : Social media may seem to be awesome, but sometimes it just doesn’t work. The ABCs of Social Media : For every letter of the alphabet, you have a way to relate a word to social media. But you can apply these tactics to social media relationships too. Not excess. Yes, really.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Give your customers a voice in the communities where they already have influence. If you are looking for a fun way to empower your customers and encourage positive discourse, brand evangelism programs are a great way to promote your brand. There’s not much to lose and a whole lot to gain.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 blog with FeedBurner Social Media Release Criticism: Nine Points to Consider Social Media – Digg, MySpace,YouTube – Web 2.0 The whole web 2.0

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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. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Loyalty programs such as the Royal Champions encourage people to maintain a positive outlook about the company and may further influence them to talk more positively about the same company in the future. These individuals didn’t have to be paid to do it before, after all, but the nice unexpected perks are certainly not unappreciated.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

There must be hundreds of businesses that are following all the rules the social media gurus throw at them, and really get it, are authentic etc. In every business niche the smart people are reaching out to influencers to try and carve out a special place in their heart/blog. and still have nothing to show for it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. Find those who influence you , and then find out who they are engaging with.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

New SEOs have a hard time obtaining links. With social media, it takes a long time to earn a reputation to drive things in front of the people who can make something pop in the space. I’m in agreement with you that “it takes a long time to earn a reputation&# in social media. (At is influence technical?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Who are the influencers? Mark Thompson of Search Engine Journal has a great article entitled How To Find Industry Influencers. Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics. Work With Web Developers to Update Your Site for Web 2.0

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Tagged as: digg , jay adelson , kevin rose , social media , social news { 24 trackbacks } Communications Downtime: Another Digg Revolt? It’s pathetic, you may be welcomed back by hordes of adoring fans, but I put my reputation on the line for you guys and I will recieve only scorn and abuse for supporting you.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

– may peace be upon him) will always be with you in your thoughts, behaviors, midos, stories, influences, etc. Reply Shimon Sandler October 25, 2007 at 5:09 pm Hi Tamar, Your grandfather ( ???? ?????? There are ways to continue helping him…(giving him an aliyah -rising upwards).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

That likely reduces your influence as a stumbler that StumbleUpon would want to trust. Like all social networks, you need to give of yourself and think about what the community wants. If you think about the greater good, you can be a very powerful influencer in the StumbleUpon community. Seriously?! Did I miss anything?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Reply Ash | SEO PPC Blogger September 16, 2010 at 9:31 pm May be the corporate businesses have their own influence of being in the corporate cultures. Leaving the part of suggesting about social media marketing, I think we first need to have human awareness/face. There are some pros and cons to both options, that’s for sure!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Maki , Internet Marketing and Social Media Blogger: The main characteristic [social media marketers] need to have is a genuine curiosity/interest in social media, particularly on how it influences human relationships and business practices. Real life has a way of influencing online behavior.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Numbers Aren’t Everything Over-zealous clients or enthusiasts might feel the need to absolutely reach out to the “influencers&# who have eleventy billion Twitter followers. It’s more important to look at the holistic view of the individual or entity on Twitter and across other social channels.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. Crucially though, people now had a means to cause a fuss if the product was not good giving rise to an important feedback mechanism.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The more you can cross off your list, the better your chances for success and influence as a blogger. I absolutely agree and I think that there’s a lot of influence in leaving an everlasting impression. You can still exert influence in a different community — it doesn’t have to be the English-speaking one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

There’s relationship building (see rule #6), influence, branding, and more. To quote The Happiness Project author Gretchen Rubin, act the way you want to feel. Rule #6: Remember where you were when you started. There’s more to blogging than just dollar signs. At the end of the day, blogs are a relationship-building tool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

And sometimes the frat boy turns into a huge influencer because they get it right. We can’t filter newcomers, but we do have to allow them time to adapt and learn. They may have come looking for keg stands but find out they just want a PBR. Appreciate the comments!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You talk about other things around the people you want to influence. You can “engage&# but you may not have much to talk about unless you’re immersed in their culture and understand it. So what do you do? It’s difficult though!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Social Media have a big influence on all of us and our days it is not enough to have an attractive web site. Reply Sergey July 28, 2010 at 4:02 am We present to your attention our series of FREE Facebook Page Templates. Facebook FBML page templates is a good way to make your page attractive on facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

For my own take on why Community Pages shouldn’t have been introduced, see the article I wrote for Reputation Online: [link] Reply aaronaut April 28, 2010 at 2:05 pm love it, love it, love it. Both of these promos take place outside of the custom tab and influences news feed optimization.

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