Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 18, 2008

It feels like every day there’s a new post about Plurk, Twitter, or some new micro-blogging platform. Most of these platforms are too young to be killing anything, and are generally unfinished. Twitter has major problems with uptimes, Plurk is missing some major features, and Brightkite is having issues with Verizon.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Facebook still drives the most revenue among the social platforms. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest drive revenue for them primarily (and the average clickthrough is 0.92 Interested in using it for your platform or offering it to your customers via our partner program? share, though it has a 2.66% conversion rate.

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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). Look at Boring Stats — and Make Them Interesting This has a little to do with the Social Media platforms, but mostly with analytics.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 4, 2011

” Social media is an ideal platform to carve out a niche and own your territory. Here a few useful tools to make sharing easy and fast: Tweetstimonials : This plugin for your website allows you to showcase testimonials and shout outs that your fans and followers post about you on Twitter. Even that tiny Twitter bio counts!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In the last couple of decades, the spectacular rise of digital platforms and social media has revolutionized the way that brands reach their consumers and the way in which they interact with each other. For example, even simple things such as your Twitter background should match your brand colors.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

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. Twitter, he says, “became my way of talking with a community of people.&# He explains that “Twitter allowed me to be social without having to be IRL.&#

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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

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both closely, the comparison to Twitter shouldn’t even be the case. After using both closely, the comparison to Twitter shouldn’t even be the case. Plurk and Twitter are two entirely different beasts. But Plurk is a lot more, and Twitter still has its place.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 11, 2010

December 8, 2007 at 5:59 am How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg June 11, 2010 at 12:03 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } Symbian September 19, 2007 at 12:18 pm Facebook were first who has started its own platform for hosting third-party applications. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood. Twitter is a fantastic tool to use. Google Maps is very handy, and Twitter is very good, especially for Social Media! It introduces your brand Is your company new? Now who’s going to pay me. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

What functionalities do you think WordPress, vBulletin, and other common platforms need to be able to better develop communities? What annoys you about WordPress, vBulletin, and these platforms? How do you think this knowledge applies to site development and marketing? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 30, 2013

Social media marketing lets you market (read: raise awareness) for your company using available online tools and platforms. Moreover, we live in a real time society now, thanks to Facebook and Twitter. Social Media Marketing is Only as Good as Your Customer Service. It also still, quite honestly, surprises people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

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 It’s another good example of the misconception that social media is “super cheap and all you need is a Twitter account!&# Subscribed. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

If you’re skilled in the art of social media “Flow”, switching gears between being a conversational leader to a contributor (and back) should be natural and easy as you engage others across various platforms. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 19, 2012

While most brands look to make a name for themselves on Facebook and Twitter, other businesses take a more introspective approach. 3dcart Software Forums : As one of the leading shopping cart software platforms on the market, 3dcart prides itself on customer support. This is a guest post by Michael Silverman.

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Cost Communities Drupal Forums 135

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The more I participate on social networks like Twitter, Socialmedian, Facebook, and Google Reader, the more my content is being shared and distributed and discussed. After I had expressed my thoughts in my blog post, I had an exchange with Louis on Twitter about comment fragmentation. This is a win-win approach. Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). Reply Miriam Schwab December 19, 2007 at 2:46 pm Tamar – you didn’t mention Twitter. The jury is still out for me on Twitter.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 12, 2011

You can follow Tim on Twitter or on Facebook. Does it utilize technology that will work on all modern browsers and platforms? This is a guest post by Tim Ware, owner of HyperArts. Much More Screen Real Estate! In the old Page layout there was really only the Profile Picture and custom tabs where design could be applied.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Maybe it’s on Twitter. You’ll be creating that Twitter account for the first time, and you’ll have to grow followers. The thought came to me while standing on a subway platform last week with the baby, which is a huge change of scenery for me (I’m working from home and watching him all day).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The introduction of social feeds by Facebook, Twitter and other social networks changed the way that people discovered content. This post will highlight how the high adoption of popular social and content orientated platforms has resulted in an overwhelming exposure to too much content too much of the time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

This method is smart because it helps build interest on another platform and drives conversions directly on their home base. Don’t cross promote to Twitter (offer a different incentive on Twitter). On the other hand, you can also share the same discount code across all social platforms.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Those who outsource are realizing a host of benefits across all of their social media platforms: their channels stream with updated material and fresh content, they are current and in-the-know all while sending conversion rates up into the wild-blue yonder, …not into the wilderness.??In

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Social Media is More than Just Twitter and Facebook Hopefully, if you’re participating in social media marketing, you’re using more than just the tools everyone else is using. However, you need to articulate to your client or marketing teams that social media is not just about participating on Twitter and Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 24, 2011

Purchasing Email Lists – there are readily available platforms where you can purchase the opportunity to access the email lists of others providing you share a common audience. You can actively market a freebie giveaway on Facebook and Twitter, providing readers an incentive to either “Like” or “Tweet” your website or message.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

Whether it’s a cool blog post, or a funny pic or whatever, it makes people feel like they have a platform when their stuff hits the front page. Did I even Twitter the link? What makes people love getting their stuff front paged is exposing something they enjoyed to a massive number of people. Did I promote by IM? Answers Yahoo!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

There were other typical social networks in this grouping as well, including Flickr, FriendFeed, Kirtsy, Mixx, Plurk, StumbleUpon, Tip’d, and Twitter. I don’t believe that Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter are social networks. I don’t believe that Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter are social networks. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 15, 2015

Plus, Discoverly works on AngelList, CrunchBase, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook, as you can see in the illustration below: Discoverly is one of my newest favorite apps, especially because knowing mutual friends is a lot more valuable than knowing that some random person I’m emailing just shared a URL on Facebook about the bogeyman.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 7, 2012

Social media and the sheer increase in number of content creation platforms has given managers, who specifically monitor a business’ reputation, many new challenges. For instance, if my business was named Example, and I wanted to see what has been said about Example on Twitter, I would do the following: site:twitter.com “Example”.

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Brands Reputation Domain Name Review 184

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Yup, you can’t just chat with people on Twitter and broadcast on Facebook. Market saturation brings lots and lots of experts , many of whom think Twitter is a shiny new object and are ready to write books, charge $2000 for conferences where they promise TWITTER TIPS AND TRICKS THAT NOBODY HAS SEEN BEFORE (in caps!),

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

I am at the opposite end, trying to help middle-aged and older writers start blogging in order to develop their author platform. 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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Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

In order to do well when marketing, one should have tactical knowledge and ideally, first-hand experience of the specific social media platform. There are other times when marketers may have to launch a multi-platform outreach campaign. This will help a great deal in planning and managing successful marketing campaigns.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Julian Rockwoord is a Product Manager at Signal , a Chicago-based company that gives small businesses a simple product that unifies email, mobile and social marketing in a single platform. Recently named #108 on the 2011 INC 500 report, you can get more great insights from Signal on Twitter , Facebook and on their blog. [

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

Zuckerberg: The internet is a great platform for overall communication, but there need to be specific tools. Can you talk about how efficient the platform is for this? It’s part of our platform team. Once we opened the developer platform, there were music applications that filled that void, like iLike.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2011

With social media now a mainstream activity — after all, nearly 700 million users are on Facebook , 300 million users are on Twitter , 61.4%

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

9 Ways to Start a New Local Business Using Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, and Google : These easy (and mostly affordable steps) can put your local business on the map. You need to be firmly grounded on all major platforms serving as the “new front page” and aim for placement throughout these new mediums. Always remember that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. You can also purchase my book, FBML Essentials , which will give you a little more details on FBML (as well as the Facebook developer platform in general). This applies to Pages as well. You have until December 10th to enter.

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Facebook How To Applications URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. 11 Practical Business Uses for LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter (GigaOM): Some lesser-practiced tips are suggested here, such as using LinkedIn polls. Social Media: Measurement and ROI.

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