Jeff Esposito

JANUARY 27, 2012

This week was pretty much a pair of travel days and a conference where I spoke on measuring social media. Users Logging In Through Social Networks Spend 50% More Time On Site – this data is very interesting from Gigya. People trust social networks more than companies so it can help in the conversion cycle.

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MySpace Social Networking Travel Conference 37

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

I’ve traveled more than ever before. 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! Answers Yahoo!

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Meme Blogger StumbleUpon MySpace 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Videos that have a completely unplanned “wow&# element to them definitely travel far in social circles. This might be via power players on social networks (eg, this story is moving on Sphinn) or even national TV (Susan Boyle’s video was a recording of a popular TV show). Answers Yahoo!

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Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

And I feel a certain solidarity/friendship towards them — including towards Professor Macdonald — as fellow travelers who’ve experienced something in common. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

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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Brands Message Boards Travel Forums 133

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

I personally learned about Roger Smith Hotel at a social media conference and was told that it’s the place to be. The word of mouth has traveled, because Pamela Slim learned about the hotel from Jonathan. If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Diva Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I think there was a lot of experimentation with social networks, starting most memorably with Friendster, then MySpace and now Facebook. We’ve seen a maturation process in terms of the degree of sophistication in the types of functionality that social networks allow, most notably Facebook.

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Handbook Real Estate Travel MySpace 63

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

I’d be happy to send you a copy of my book if you plan on traveling with him (decreases stress and prevents nightmares!). 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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Social Media Web 2.0 Digg MySpace 112

Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 9, 2009

Mon, Aug 10, 2009 Best Practices Well, it’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the world of social media and IT security. Joshua Salmons stated it best in a recent blog post – “If the president left his travel agenda scheduling up to the Secret Service, he’d never leave the White House bunker (”Safer” is easier.).

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Gov 2.0 Social Media MySpace Web 2.0 86

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a major consideration for us, given how much I travel (and how much I’ll likely travel in the next couple years after The Now Revolution – my forthcoming book with Amber Naslund – is published in February). Safe travels! Safe travels to you all. Happy travels. Welcome and best of luck.

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Social Media Strategy Travel Team 115

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

As I had been doing a lot of research on social networking, the department head and myself came up with a course named New Communication Technologies in Organizational Life. Last fall, I was asked to teach a special topics course for Communication Majors. I would develop a course on a topic that I had some knowledge of.

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Wiki Class Web 2.0 Skills 113

Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Unlike your blog, which is on an island, the Pitch is mobile and travels around to all the places you need it to – email, social networks, search engines, etc.,

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SEO Social Media Consultant Social CRM 115

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Then and Now In the good old days, say from the 1850s onwards, marketing was mostly a one way “communication&# : companies advertized their wares via local media like newspapers, magazines, and traveling salespeople. Facebook, Myspace etc are just the start. It really worries me! Answers Yahoo!

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Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Jay is doing some travel for a client. DJ Waldow: My Digg strategy is similar to my MySpace strategy, it sort of goes hand-in-hand. MySpace had ad revenue goals around it. Flicker was acquired by Yahoo purely as an image search strategy, not as like a social community of people that get value out of this website.

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Digg Communities MySpace YouTube 113

Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 3, 2007

From gigaom here are some of the particiapting sites that I also plan to boycott: The 44 sites that have partnered with Facebook include everyone from Kongregate, LiveJournal, NYTimes (NYT), Sony Online, Blockbuster (BBI), Bluefly.com, STA Travel, The Knot, TripAdvisor, Travel Ticker, TypePad, viagogo, Vox, Yelp, WeddingChannel.com and Zappos.com.

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Sites Facebook Privacy Xanga 44

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I had my first blog in 2000 where I did daily entries on my cross-country travels. 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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Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Journal 241

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Four high-rise hotels surround Starbucks like castle ramparts, each filled with caffeine-crazed travelers. for most business travelers, it’s also incredibly helpful. But Mike becomes memorable when he connects with a core truth of travelers–we're in unfamiliar territory and need good wayfinding.

Social Media 148

Social Media Strategy Consultant B2B 148

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

"6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations" [link] /via @jaybaer [link] Heather Sanford 6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations [link] [link] Social 6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and … [link] #I12SM [link] PR Travel Lifestyle 6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations [link] via (..)

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Compete Conference Organization Social CRM 115

Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. Ignite Social Media launched in 2007, just a few months before the first iPhone came out. They’re not really mapping the social network.

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Influencer Social Media Hubspot Travel 85

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? Influence mining. What a paradigm shift we've made!

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Social CRM Influencer Klout Social Media 133

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 149

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

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. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web.

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Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

While it pre-dates the Internet (and commercial air travel, ATMs, competitive eating, Red Bull and a lot of other stuff we take for granted), its core premise serves as the foundation for social media effectiveness. Tons of applicability for social networking. link] jaybaer You might want to republish as a blog post!

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Social Media Strategy Influencer Education 112

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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Social Media Marketing Consultant Communities 163

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

Having long ago passed MySpace as the most popular social network, Facebook recently replaced Google as the most-visited website in the U.S. 5 Ways for B2B Companies to Engage on Facebook by Social Media B2B. of the rapidly growing Brazilian social network market. population, 13.2 billion fans, has 3.5

Facebook 210

Facebook B2B Privacy MySpace 210

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

[link] PRWestcoast RT @jaybaer: 6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in Social Media [link] [link] arikhanson Still love the "atomize your content" line. RT @jaybaer: 6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in SM [link] [link] Travel 2.0

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Social Media Strategy CoTweet CoTweet 121

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Dating and Social Networking. Add an RSS feed to your MySpace page with this application. Travel itinerary. Use TripIt to organize your travel itinerary, then sign up for alerts which will send you RSS feeds any time something on your itinerary is updated or changed. Singles events. Friendfeed. Currency rates.

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RSS Feed Feedly News 200

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 16, 2008

Dating and Social Networking. Add an RSS feed to your MySpace page with this application. Travel itinerary. Use TripIt to organize your travel itinerary, then sign up for alerts which will send you RSS feeds any time something on your itinerary is updated or changed. Singles events. Friendfeed. Currency rates.

RSS 200

RSS Feed Feedly News 200

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Both are incredibly popular public facing success stories with very strong brands, traveling often to make public appearances at a variety of conferences and venues. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us It’s in the way that both Chris and Gary got there that is important.

MySpace 153

MySpace Consultant Yahoo StumbleUpon 153

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

We tried to figure out how to use some of these applications to generate unique content when building a travel portal and failed miserably. social networking. social media. social news. social networking. social media. social news. social networks. business networking.

Crowdsourcing 245

Crowdsourcing Software Project Forums 245

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

Tamar : How long did the actual execution of the game (filming, traveling, etc) take? We didn’t have to travel far to find all these different accents! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

After all, hourly consulting fees are typically much more costly than a “free lunch&# plus the travel time it took to meet up. Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Money makes the world go round. I have not done it.

Products 267

Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

I travel to the east coast once a month for 1-2 weeks at a time, and am trying to lighten my load… [link] JobShoots The Truth About the iPad [link] #news #socialmedia [link] JobShoots The Truth About the iPad [link] #news #socialmedia [link] jaybaer Linda if you had to do real work during the trip, Macbook. link] Zack Nice analysis!

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iPad Content iPhone Wireless 136

Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 11, 2009

Social networks. they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter. The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. A soon-to-be-talked about new venture sent me on quest to explore what was happening with women and social networks.

Communities 49

Communities Social Media Sports MySpace 49

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. What are the most popular sites in these age groups?

Marketing 144

Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

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. Do you know what that means? Answers Yahoo!

Social Media 268

Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

A great example is how he provided a deep matrix into Google Buzz, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter just a few days after Buzz was launched. I actually also found out that PayPal was being accepted via Facebook through Jeremiah and not through the regular blogs I read that cover the social space/tech industry. Answers Yahoo!

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278