Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 8, 2009

In the post, I shared my don’ts of social networks, and to that point, I added the following rule for LinkedIn: Gathering all the email addresses of users you are connected to — even locating email addresses of LinkedIn Group managers — and utilizing this mailing list to promote your own company or service off-site.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Case in point: in 2006, Facebook removed the only Facebook friend I had who wasn’t a real person. Groups : Facebook Groups still exist, but I wouldn’t encourage using them unless you’re looking to maintain a fully closed and private community in the confines of the service. That person was St.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2006. FriendFeed Groups – The Fast Track to Content and Community (Knowthenetwork.com): How can you use FriendFeed groups to your advantage? Suggested Guide for Writing Effective Blog Posts (PMA Media Group): Blogging isn’t always just about opening a “new post&# link and typing your thoughts.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Linkedin lead generation requires commitment to answering and asking questions on Groups/Answers, taking advantage of the deep searches, and connecting directly with those around you in your network. Reputation Management. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Effective use means more business. Engagement. “Look at this!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

or the desire to establish a new group. The Apple Students Group is a great way for Apple to market its own products, and over the summer, it offered free songs through iTunes. If I upload a group photo, I can tag the people in the photo to identify them. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Baloun, I would recommend it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Like last year, I’ve grouped them into different categories and written short descriptions on each post. How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business : This recent post on Copyblogger quotes how many businesses has found success with the microblogging service. You need to handle your reputation issue appropriately.

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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. Twitter isn’t a “social network&# though, at least not how I define it – it’s a microblogging platform with a strong community. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

Your friends in one social network may not be on the same wavelength as your friends on another, but you now show both groups what you are doing online. Like organizing your contacts in something better than “groups&#. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Beeing an aggregator, heck, my old email-inbox can be that for me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

For large, Fortune 1000 brands, this is typically a very large group, ranging from a few thousand to a few million individuals. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network. This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I’ll admit (a little secret of mine) that I initially befriended a few folks I admired on TV (specifically, 2006-2007′s Beauty and the Geek) but since I have no personal connection to the guys, I deleted the non-genuine contacts. And if it’s not worth it to you, there’s always that opportunity to disable that account.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Reply Deb Ng August 19, 2010 at 8:55 am Jenn Fowler (@jennfowler) and I joked the other day about starting a support group for our spouses and other social media widows and widowers. Your post offers good suggestions – far better than starting a support group. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Thanks Deb! All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

There are a small group of users who are affected by the same problem, but we’re too small a group for Rose or his cronies to pay atrention to. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Reply Rich September 26, 2007 at 7:55 am Due to a problem with Digg (something to do with the server y.digg.com) I can’t use it any more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Totally connected groups are average sharers, creating as much as they can consume and using free sites to display it all. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Young people of the new WWW generation snuck in whenever, wherever, and on whatever they like. Crucially, their expectations have changed. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

When I first signed onto Twitter in 2006, I used to manually review every single incoming email notifying me of new Twitter followers just to see if there was a synergy between our accounts. I enjoy this group and do engage. I will call this group my social experiment. Am I interested in what the other person has to add?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

What are the most popular sites in these age groups? Ignore the Social Media Scoreboard (Instigator Blog): Ben Yoskovitz says that you need to leverage friendships to build brand, reputation, trust, and to discover new opportunities. Don’t capitalize on someone else’s suffering. This is one of the best articles of the year.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

It’s not enough to be insular and focus on your groups of friends. At business networking events, try to get to know people outside your group of trusted colleagues. We may be slightly different versions of ourself when with each of these different groups. I created an additional account for people in that group.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2009

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. She was a member of the Red Hat Society , and was very proud for her group getting kicked out of Denny’s for “disrupting&# the restaurant – this when she was 85.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

A lot of the major content producers like publishing groups have too much overhead to compete on price with bloggers etc and there’s too many places to get the same content so they can’t differentiate. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. MBA 101: you can only compete on price or product differentiation. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Finally, you can preview your image (or select the desired image if multiple images are on the page), add a title, description, and tags, choose a category, and submit the story to private groups (if you’re a member of any). I started an SEO group over there, so anyone that wants in just shoot me your user name through my blog.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

I’d love to befriend everyone or even specify groups of friends to which I’d subscribe so that I can get updates delivered to my RSS reader (versus other updates that I would check on a more infrequent basis), though for the time being, the team has not worked that out. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

When members repeatedly submit content from a single site or a small group of sites, it undermines StumbleUpon’s mission of discovering and sharing Web sites with others. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. We take this step to preserve the quality of content in our database. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

We organise language courses worldwide for businesses, one-to-one students, and small groups. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Tamar : What does your company do? Dave : Basically we’re a language training company. Reply Kevin Sherman August 5, 2008 at 6:19 pm Hi all… Anyone want to guess where my accent is from?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t use a Facebook Group. Of over 1500 friends that I have, I’m constantly being pitched to join groups I have no interest in. That might not apply to Facebook fan groups but the idea is similar. Reply Tamar Weinberg May 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm Tove, I still would never recommend groups. It’s an irritant.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

We recently shared the story to a large group of Dallas hotels. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. More importantly, they’ve created a go-to place or space for community.&# This is an great example of a company that gets it and has moved the needle because of it. Time will tell if they got the message. Congrats to the Roger Smith Hotel!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Many people found the research interesting, but a number of people commented that the social networks probably shouldn’t be grouped together. So the question arose – was social media traffic misrepresented by grouping traffic from all networks together? © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. You never want to work for a company who has a bad reputation, especially if you plan to remain in this industry. All social media etiquette rules were not heeded to.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

I now present you with … Infraction #2 : On October 31st, my friend Erik created a Facebook group for Digg fans which was inspired by the extremely popular (3241 Diggs as of this writing) Digg story about how Stephen Colbert’s Facebook group was the fastest growing ever. The URL now is dead.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

On a few occasions, they also have served as focus groups providing us with valuable feedback on a number of topics. We agreed to forward the information on to this group of members, and asked for their permission to share their contact information with Royal Caribbean. This is Cruise Critic’s sole involvement in this program.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

He talks of a group on Facebook that has a goal to build an organization that has enough political clout to achieve ends to end poverty. There was a similar thing in 2006 when Yahoo was going to buy the company. Zuckerberg : It was a group decision, really. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

Kevin says that earlier this evening, he hosted a focus group at Digg to beta test some new features to be rolled out in the future. 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. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Abusing group invites. And if they don’t accept, don’t send the group request more than once by asking them to join via email, wall post, or Facebook message. In a specific case, I manage a few LinkedIn groups so my email address is far more visible on the site than I’d like. Many call this spam.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can visit online meeting places like Digg and Reddit and promote the voices and opinions of others, and anyone can mobilize a group of people around a common cause on Facebook or elsewhere. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog. All rights reserved.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

But you still have to build a reputation as a known submitter. Digg has taken away the official top users list and has evened out the algorithm to curb “friendly&# digging groups. After they get 50 stories to the frontpage, they are no longer a random group of diggers, so the algorithm kicks in and requires more diggs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I was a Facebook purist in its former form and I liked having access to select group of exclusive folks knowing that these were trusted people and that only certain groups of individuals were allowed to have access. It’s a bit like group therapy. Yup, it’s true. It felt good to be exclusive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I became a big fan of playing games (bingo especially) at a little hub on AOL called RabbitJack’s Casino , which was considered a unique community within the AOL borders with a close-knit group of people from all walks of life. © 2006-2010 Tamar Weinberg. I still even keep in touch with a few special individuals from those days.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Louis Gray Louis Gray is a prominent technology blogger and Managing Director of New Media at Paladin Advisors Group. This is one of the reasons group interviews and such are so popular…they allow you to select the people you hope to gain attention from WHILE giving those people a reason to want to talk about you. Makes my day!

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