Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. New for 2008: If your article is highlighted in this comprehensive post, we have badges for you! How You Can Get Your Google Rankings Back : Ever get a search engine ranking penalty?

SEO 162

SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

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. But they all shy away from implementing features that worked, from other services. Threaded Comments – one of the largest feature missing out on Twitter was the ability to actually respond to someone.

Microblogging 102

Microblogging API MySpace Yahoo 102

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Social Media 172

Social Media Case Study MySpace Yahoo 172

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Here’s 2007. Experts Talk About Social Media Training (Samir Balwani): Samir has a great interview on the background on social media marketing with 5 experts. Normally I don’t self-promote in this roundup, but the quotes are good, and Jason Falls, who was featured, is one of my role models.)

Marketing 265

Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Interestingly, LinkedIn is developing more “community&# features which draws people together. What community features is Li developing? 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Individual vs. membership blogging?

Social Media 189

Social Media Class Forums Microblogging 189

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?

Digg 100

Digg Privacy MySpace Yahoo 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2009

What about benefiting the blog you hope to be featured on? If you genuinely believe that there are specific blogs that you want to involve yourself in or that your company should be featured in, you need to spend more than 5 minutes crafting a pitch as to why you or your company is good enough for the job.

Blogger 132

Blogger Press Release Marketing Instant Messaging 132

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Tweet Spinner Feature Set Tweet Spinner features four main features. Sadly, this feature has become necessary, and TweetSpinner helps you maintain anti-spam rules to weed out the junk. This is a subscriber-only feature and occurs every four hours. Profile Rotator Here’s another great feature of Tweet Spinner.

Applications 179

Applications Review Statistics URL 179

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

They are also the most likely to pass the word along to their circle of friends, family, and acquaintances (a prerequisite to “going viral” within social channels). However, if your website and email messages don’t call attention to these features you’ve lost out on the opportunity to reach these folks and make these things happen.

Smart Phone 218

Smart Phone Mobile Social Media SEO 218

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

You can also get Google Analytics installed on your Facebook Fan page. You can use Google Alerts or Social Mention’s alert feature. I prefer Social Mention because they are more thorough than Google. I prefer Social Mention because they are more thorough than Google.

Questions 277

Questions Social Media How To Postrank 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Twitter is one of the largest social networking sites, featuring users from various walks of lives. Here is what I found in his bio “ www.BieberFever.com Request my single SOMEBODY TO LOVE featuring USHER!! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Analysis 215

Analysis Twitter MySpace Consultant 215

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. I’m going to stop there, though.

Apple 154

Apple Twitter Forums Policies 154

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 28, 2010

Peace, Jackie Reply Al June 30, 2010 at 12:49 pm This post was also featured on our Education Blog, here is a link to it: [link] Reply Cancel reply Leave a Comment Be sure to wrap all code in <code></code> tags. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

Video 236

Video Flash Mob YouTube MySpace 236

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Social media experts realise that you can’t control what people say about you online, but you can continue to focus on putting out your best work possible, whatever your medium can be. I am absolutely tired of all the profiles with “Social Media Expert&#. Tamar, looking forward to featuring you soon!

Social Media 229

Social Media Influencer MySpace Consultant 229

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

For your blog, any URL will do, and if you are writing for a blog with multiple authors, FriendFeed parses through the authors and only features blog posts written by you. Google, Wikipedia and FriendFeed. What I do to filter ALL of the info, is subscribe to specifc FF feeds via Google Reader.

Plaxo 103

Plaxo Picasa StumbleUpon Netvibes 103

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Content aggregators, RSS readers and new social networks are all aiming to deliver the most sought-after content to the people who want the news, wherever they are comfortable. Some of these sites also offer the ability to have commentary, including Facebook, Google Reader, FriendFeed, SocialMedian, and many others.

Aggregator 151

Aggregator Content Digg Posterous 151

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 18, 2010

Google doesn’t forget! Facebook is a social network and its intended purpose is online networking. I’m not going to open a window into my personal life (which features hundreds of photos of my *very* minor son) to someone who thinks they know me but who I have no association with. I still have mine).

Activities 216

Activities Social Media Policies Social Networking 216

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. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Social Media 153

Social Media Strategy Marketing Vimeo 153

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 10, 2010

I met him on StumbleUpon over a year ago and he is one of those kids who never ceases to amaze me; he totally understands social media and his 22 Reasons for You to Blog was even featured in my annual Best Posts of 2009 roundup. Thank you very much for the feature! Reply Sean June 10, 2010 at 8:29 pm Hey thanks for featuring me!

Blogger 241

Blogger StumbleUpon Communities Sites 241

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.

Social Media 100

Social Media StumbleUpon SEO ROI 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both Plurk and Twitter pretty heavily, I’ve come to the conclusion that Plurk is best at its features for community-building, whereas Twitter succeeds more with its interface that bolsters information-sharing. Both of these features continue to support my argument that Twitter is not Plurk, nor is Plurk a new Twitter.

Twitter 199

Twitter Microblogging MySpace Comparison 199

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Reply Jonha April 14, 2010 at 7:25 pm Hi Tamar, Social media is fun as it is interactive but once abused, or if you spend too much time on it, it will really get a little too routine and boring. btw, January 11, 2007? farmville, who would have thought we’d be farming on social media 5 years ago).

Social Media 267

Social Media SEO Blogger Communities 267

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

It also reminds you that Facebook is one of their social destinations on the web, but that you might be interested in their YouTube page. Their YouTube page, ironically, only features a playlist of videos that they love but does not show any videos made by themselves, such as the process of making a Peanut Butter Cup. I know I would.)

Facebook 279

Facebook How To Marketing URL 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Additionally, because we feature an exclusive ad inventory from some of the biggest brands in the world including Blackberry, L’Oreal, Dominos Pizza, National Geographical, and Microsoft our ads are actively of interest to site visitors. Follow with Aaron Wall in how to avoid Google or they will pentrate your right to privacy.

Analysis 226

Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2008

For something with audio as it’s main feature, recording on a noisy street isn’t ideal. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Marketing 103

Marketing Film StumbleUpon Project 103

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. comprehensive social media marketing training there is.

Marketing 240

Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

First, their default landing tab featured an inactive promotion (which has since been pulled after I wrote yet another tweet that pointed to a Flickr screenshot of the ended promotion ). 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! I was wrong.

Social Media 217

Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. This description of StumbleUpon has been taken from the book: StumbleUpon [is] a social content discovery engine with bookmarking features.

StumbleUpon 181

StumbleUpon Digg Social Networking Review 181

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Matt Cutts Matt Cutts is a blogger and Principal Engineer at Google, where he heads Google’s Webspam team. Danny is currently Chief Content Officer of Third Door Media which operates the Sphinn social news site and organizes the popular Search Marketing Expo conference series. He also co-founded Weblogs Inc.

Influencer 278

Influencer How To Press Release Blogger 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. Social news is about reciprocal relationships. Submitting a story to a social news site that is completely off-topic. Excess converts to spam.

Handbook 279

Handbook Social Media Web 2.0 StumbleUpon 279

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

My favorite examples of this come from all corners of the Internet, with some blogs always offering original detailed content (which is what I hope to achieve here on Techipedia) and others providing a mix of news bytes in addition to deeper commentary. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Blogosphere 278

Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

For example, when someone posted a video parody on YouTube, it was featured in local Philippine television. Reply josh February 27, 2008 at 4:10 pm Social marketing has already arrived. Facebook is growing closer to the size of google. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Social Media 105

Social Media Marketing Digg MySpace 105

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. As far as an autobury feature, neither Kevin nor Jay explicitly acknowledged existence of one. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

Digg 100

Digg StumbleUpon Communities Upcoming 100

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

I continue on to tell them that in addition to these reasons, by being on the personal profile platform, they aren’t receiving the SEO benefits afforded to business pages; ie page statuses being indexed by Google while profile statuses are not. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. i wish it still existed!

Facebook 268

Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

I’m taking a New Media class at Michigan State University this summer and reading blog posts like yours reminds me that “I am just an egg&# [from "Stranger in a Strange Land"]. I also need to be a tech geek and say while we MUST add our human touch to it, a lot sharing in social media can be automated!

Social Media 251

Social Media Klout Influencer Feed 251

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

I still slap myself on the forehead when I recall tossing out a magazine from the Compuserve days that featured the best websites of that time.) 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! I also have a confession to make.

MySpace 101

MySpace Yahoo Ustream StumbleUpon 101

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

If there’s one recurring theme that I feature here on Techipedia, it’s the fact that social media marketing relates to dealings with other individuals. This is so true … heck, my friend even was featured a few years back in the NYTimes because of his social network profiles resulting in job rejections!

Social Media 268

Social Media Marketing Policies Sysomos 268