Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 13, 2008

The issue at hand is not the fact that the company was virtually unknown. There were far more important issues that needed to be dealt with first. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

What are their issues? A social media strategy will allow you to get in on these conversations so that you can offer solutions, push buttons, and get people talking. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us What motivates them? Answers Yahoo!

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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 11, 2008

As Digg becomes more of a social network and less of a social news network (or a hybrid that incorporates both elements), it has a lot of obstacles it needs to face. Besides major usability issues , duplicate stories submissions , and ads that literally scream at you , Digg has yet another issue to deal with: privacy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

And then it’s not an issue of apologizing to me; you’ll publicly have to apologize to everyone who I’ve shared my dismay with. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us I have the ability, if I so choose, to call you out on this behavior. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

When that starts to impact the “social&# peers online who do not mean any harm, nothing can be expressed except disappointment. Sadly, sometimes an online “friend&# becomes embroiled completely unnecessarily in the middle of what seems like serious marital issues. Have you ever encountered this type of issue?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The issue, of course, is engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I’m pretty sure Digg knows about those issues (since I’m sure I mentioned it at least once). 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. Thanks guys.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

So not only must you fix the website, you really have to address any issues that might become potential fires before you know it. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

I think the big issue here is more about sites with snippets of text. HOWEVER, my problem is more of a behavioral issue. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 2, 2008

Michael Reply Michael Brito April 2, 2008 at 11:22 am I’m getting mine redone as well but I am having MySQL issues at the moment. As far as Custom search concern, you have to create new page with page title “Search Results&# and paste the code from Googles Search results code text box. Soon though. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Twitter has major problems with uptimes, Plurk is missing some major features, and Brightkite is having issues with Verizon. 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.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Someone made a comment to me that this blogger writes simply to look smarter than others but doesn’t have anything valuable to say — that’s the kind of reputation this type of complex writing actually gives off! This style can also be quite time consuming and can get quite complex especially when dealing with complex issues.

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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. But you still have to build a reputation as a known submitter.

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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

However, it’s been a long-standing issue that Digg has not acknowledged its users to satisfaction. This is not a regular practice on the social news giant, and unfortunately, that is probably the biggest thing causing its downfall. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. Time will only tell.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

And if you do go on a real vacation, when you get back from that trip, you’ll need to tend to your child yet again and most likely address issues that arose when you were gone. I turned off the posts on Buzz mostly for the issue that Google doesn’t truncate the posts. Keep up the good work on both the home front and here.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

These 50 Lessons Will Help You Succeed (The Future Buzz): Using data gathered from the Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2009, Adam Singer gives solid actionable tips on how you can start a blog and why it’s important that you do. He offers great tips here. Starting a Blog? Sometimes you can respond. What would you respond to, though?

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. To take two examples: people complain about an issue to an important newspaper prompting them to push the issue into the mainstream, or if a TV station covers an event, that becomes an important topic. Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

I feel that perhaps the big issue here is that 50 people were chosen. You have those that recognize that the crux of the issue really has nothing to do with the Royal Champions per se, but involves what they call “transparency&# , adhering to the ethical code of the word of mouth marketing association, if not the FTC guidelines.

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

If you factor in the “banner blindness” issue I mentioned earlier, Kontera’s performance is even more impressive, as people aren’t bothered by banner ads because they flat out don’t see them. Anyway, thanks both of you, for your thoughtful conversation on the issue. I don’t know what to say. First, you replied 3 weeks later.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

What happened to a simple news site? All of the usability issues and obvious screw ups are killing me. As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. If they wanted social networking, they had their options: Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, etc.

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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. And it makes it even better when we call out the issues like this!

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

I say: wait until Plurk gets better and keep waiting for Twitter to fix its scaling issues. 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. You may have more than one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

They just want the freebies without being specific about their issue. Reply Preston Ehrler July 29, 2010 at 4:30 pm This issue is not only common, per your evidence, in the Social Media circle, but has permeated every corner of the business world. I have two perspectives on this issue. Thank you for writing this.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

You’ll find that as your page grows, you’ll likely be tasked with handling customer service issues. People don’t care who is running the social media presence online; if it’s the marketing department, they’ll still demand technical support. One of the informative I’ve read to date. Thanks Tamar.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

This story parallels one of the main issues facing social media. Social media is a continuous effort, not something that is only campaign-based. Campaign-based social media marketing only works when it complements continuous social media marketing. A good tip: think about it as a reputation tattoo.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Lacy repeats her question and Mark continues: There are a lot of really big issues in the world that need to be solved. There are a ton of issues out there and the US is not necessarily in the same position it was before where they can tell other people what they should be doing, so there needs to be a solid base for people to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The issue of time. I’m totally authentic on these other accounts, but the difference is that I’ve set up the expectations on my @tamar account to deliver social media and small business news, whereas on my other accounts, I can talk about other interests (e.g. The language issue is a confusing one.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The most popular blogs, according to Technorati , maintain that consistency by posting more than once a day. And bravo for bringing up the issue of eloquence. Reply Rosemary ONeill February 24, 2010 at 1:32 pm This article should be issued with every new blog username. Great for new bloggers and old-hand bloggers alike.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2008

In other words, this video wasn’t a marketing campaign, but it worked well as one after social media aficionados and marketers viewed this as such. Reply gusma June 15, 2008 at 10:34 pm You looked quite pissed on the no-embed issue today. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

A good company leader would actually recognize that a social news network implies that there are participants involved and that the users are the most important part of the service. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

traditional PR skills (building goodwill), marketing skills (giving customers what they want), and customer service (delivering resolutions to issues). So ultimately, the best social media marketers understand all of these disciplines. Specialties in social media work are already developing. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

She was created and portrayed entirely by her “mother&# , Debbie Swenson, a middle-aged Midwestern housewife with some serious issues. The main one: give to reputable non-profit groups and *steer* individuals towards these groups when in need. I can also tell you that Kaycee Nicole did not, technically, exist. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

If people would use common courtesy, this wouldn’t be an issue to me. Do you know of any tools for businesses, or even individuals who experience the same issue? As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us I plan on mass-purging the offenders soon. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

After all, if you’ve invested the time in reading the book, why not give back some honesty and expertise in an email to the PR person – knowing why you didn’t review the book can help them hone their future pitches and help you build a good reputation. Some big PR firms think they are better than bloggers. Answers Yahoo!

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