Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 11, 2008

Nearly four months later, the social features appear to be here to stay. 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. But are they secure? 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. I voted accordingly. Yes it will. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The numbers would be a lot more representative if this approach was implemented, and the incentive to have users gaming these systems would be substantially diminished. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us This is a win-win approach. Does that make more sense? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you are going down the free route, use Google Blog Search, Technorati, and blogrolls to find relevant blogs. BuzzStream is a brilliant new tool that lets you gather contact names and addresses and chart your history of communications with each individual blogger. So I post stuff, email, invite, tweet, RT, FF. I’m learning.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

In college, I worked as a student network technician and a Unix systems administrator. You could call me a blogger of many hats or a social media maven or Internet marketing consultant. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us It was actually a very interesting line of work.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

Plurk introduced a comment system which helps create a conversational feel. There’s been much talk about people gaming the system and worrying about their karma, thus plurking about them losing (or gaining) karma points. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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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. Reddit and Mixx , on the other hand, live on a karma system.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

And if you are, I hope you have a disaster recovery system in place!) Don’t you think, however, that the more consumers use social media for customer service, the more it floods the system? It’s important for companies to utilize social media but it doesn’t scale. It’s like THE CLUB. Answers Yahoo!

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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. It’s a great system … in theory. FriendFeed: The Catch That brings me to the biggest downside of FriendFeed.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

He talks about an honor system where it is our obligation to give people the benefit of the doubt. 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

JULY 15, 2010

Frank Lee shares a Free Gift to guide you step-by-step to “Breakthrough Article Marketing&# – simply visit his site today and discover how you too can generate loads of free buying traffic using a simple 5 step unique article writing method in his Internet Marketing Systems. Photos by Shutterstock. 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. It’s hard to say if that will happen again. This is my perspective.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Drive Leads through LinkedIn. Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging. Kirtsy and Other Niche Social Networks. Did you know there’s a social news website catered to women called Kirtsy ? You just need to look.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

4 Real Offline Uses of Twitter (Dream Systems Media): Twitter marketing is happening online, of course, but it’s happening offline too. LinkedIn 10 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job (How to Change the World): Thought you couldn’t get a job on LinkedIn? You’re On Twitter, Now What? It was rather cool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Personal , Social Media > Want to Friend Me on Facebook? Please Use My Public Page or LinkedIn Instead Want to Friend Me on Facebook? LinkedIn is the likely choice because it is a “set it and forget it&# social network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Reply Michael D February 6, 2008 at 12:26 pm Tamar, that live twittering of commercials must have been too much for your immune system. What if a new formula is developed that does not have the same side effects? As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Works for me every time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 26, 2009

Seems to me that in order to gain the benefits of Social Media Marketing tactics, traditional marketers must give up their need for control, especially of the metrics. The social media networks are systems — non-linear, fuzzy, powerful, organic systems. Systems evolve in unpredictable ways. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

You can also set a specific follower-to-following ratio, and if you exceed this point, the system will stop following any additional users. You might not want to, and here’s a way to prevent the system from re-following someone you’ve unfollowed already. You can set a day here. User-filtering/pruning. Tweet content: URLs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 20, 2007

As Tamar pointed out, it’s a social news site, not a network and I could care less about how often profiles are updated. Folks that spent considerable time on Digg prior to the update, by and large, were looking for a social news site. It’s a social site with news secondary. Is there any?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

I also know that when you blog and post, most blog platforms have a pinging system that automatically tells the search engines to check again for the new update. Itamar is the Community Manager for Moishe’s Moving Systems. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

It’s a social site, but we’re talking about microblogging now. Saw this brought up on a Linkedin question, and I’ll put it on ecademy for them to see it also. love the commenting system, and emoticon also get karma more higher then i will get more emoticon and became NIRVANA.Yippie. thank you!! Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Our ad system was intended to fit very organically with things on the site. We believe that people are fundamentally good and aren’t trying to game the system inherently. The applications you get are inherent of the product system we’ve set up. These systems are all about trust. I’m asking Mark!

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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. It is a proposal of an open system where everything is transparent and users themselves can vote on decisions.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

Keeping garbage out of the system makes for a more enjoyable experience for everyone. 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!

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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. He gamed the system and now looks famous. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You have to have *unique* email addresses in Twitter’s system, but you can circumvent this by doing as Joel suggested just as long as you move to Gmail. But it’s “registered&# in your system, so the next tweet I send gets DM’d to the first person! Also, there’s one huge bug that I experienced a few times.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Do you have any system that has worked? Tagged as: audacity of free , authors , book , chris brogan , free , Marketing , social media { 3 trackbacks } VIP Access: The VIPerchill Business Plan August 4, 2010 at 4:12 am Could Consultants Offer Incentive-Based Pricing? Sound off in the comments. Photos provided by Shutterstock.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I am looking for a five star rating system that can rate each comment on a Facebook Fan Page. I found a rating system but can’t figure out how to do it. Office: 540.327.7527 LinkedIn Profile: [link] VisualCV URL: [link] Follow us on Twitter: [link] Interact with us on Facebook! I have searched and searched. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

By basing your brand off of what you’re passionate about and want to be an expert in (if you’re not already), you will be able to become a serious player in the social media world. Instead, join the top four networks: Facebook, Google Buzz, Twitter, and LinkedIn. And getting to know social media is an important step.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Use LinkedIn. Yes, LinkedIn is a more professional medium but I still think adding “SEO&# to your name is annoying. If people want to show other people that they like SEO, they could join an SEO group on LinkedIn or Facebook or start their own. However, I’d MUCH rather see that on LinkedIn than Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

My point was mostly to explain that ONLY sharing articles and not engaging at all is a major flaw in the “system&# — and it actually helps users accumulate a lot of additional automated followers. Sure my LinkedIn page is linked to Twitter, and will automatically update my latest blog post but that’s it.

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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? I applaud any attempt like this to make the system more realistic. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Thanks, guys!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

His URL is appended with a _2, which indicates that it was a duplicate submission: [link] The ironic thing is that Digg has a somewhat decent duplicate detection system. However, if you submit the story a few hours later or a few days later, Digg’s system always asks you if you’re sure that you haven’t submitted a dupe.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Second of all I’d love to win the Family Fun Package: Casio 8.1MP didital camera, Sandisk memory card, Casio camera case, Emerson Karaoke System, Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio, Harvard electronic basketball, HoMedics footbath, One For All Universal Remote. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

The admin tools are rudimentary, and to get anything half way approaching a decent system you have to pay a considerable (I mean *really* considerable) amount to one of the few approved FB developers who are currently getting moderation suites together. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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