Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

99 best social-media and PR posts of 2009 – Holy Kaw! How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands From BusinessWeek: Good article that is part of Business Week’s CEO Guide to Microblogging. How Do You Build An Online Community? This article provides simple step by step advice to become Twitter savvy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Right now, you’ll find the likes of Tamar , Jonathan , Lisa and Rebecca in my feed reader, and consequently, in that box. Social media is about building relationships and so many “experts&# are not great communicators. Love your book “The New Community Rules&# girl! I take it everywhere I go!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

You never know until you check out their feed. By studying their feed, you can learn a lot more about how important social media is to them. You can subscribe to your friends’ feeds, but you’ll easily drown in the frequency of updates. What can you learn about me? Perhaps they’re insomniacs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

I needed to differentiate Digg from social media because they actually are part of a distinctive community (and as you know, I’m very passionate about Digg so it really did deserve its own category). I get fixated on one community and ditch the last, yet I still have my profiles on them and they usually get outdated within minutes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

Blogging Experiment November 2, 2007 at 10:02 am How Do You Feed MediaSnackers? BTW – I’ve really been interacting with the Digg community more and more. It really is about being a part of the community. She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. Reply Jutta March 25, 2009 at 8:19 pm Hi Tamar, I just discovered your blog through a Tweet. Reply Jutta March 26, 2009 at 1:55 am Thank you so much for your detailed answer despite my ignorance.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

Then, when you’re joining a community for the first time, you’ll need to study the users and slowly build relationships with them. But, like good Social Media community members, I’m thrilled to be able to help my parents out and give back as well! &# question a hundred times. Thankfully, now I am.)

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. In 2009, Twitter capitalized on the hashtag by adding hyperlink capabilities. They earned virtual mayorships while they were at it.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 9, 2008

As a top Digg submitter, it worked like this: at first, people noticed my heavy community involvement and my participation , and consequently, my submitted stories easily front-paged. The community had to react. There’s no real community in Digg. Most other sites you belong to probably have a bigger sense of community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

Google is undoubtedly huge and they could simply shrug their members off like Digg does to its much smaller userbase, but instead they engage the community and that’s why Google is such a positive brand. It’s their community of choice and that’s fine. I don’t know yet if it changes my feelings at all.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Don’t shy away from giving your community the information needed to find you elsewhere both online and offline. Let it be posted on every social platform of choice and then watch as it seeds through other communities (which is likely to happen and shows that your marketing is viral). Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

A few weeks ago, jwz posted a great piece on how to access Facebook via a feed reader. I now have status updates in my feed, and finally, I can see both happy and sad news. So many people use LinkedIn this way; I’d be surprised if less than 90% of LinkedIn’s community didn’t. It’s not.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It should also, at the same time, be something familiar to other Facebook users, as this is what they will see in their News feeds as their friends become fans or you post updates. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials , to two readers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. I DO own one for ORM, but I’ve left it as a news feed. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Call them cliques if you will. Many don’t overlap.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2008

By May 18 , the MetaFilter community dared to ask the same, very unpopular questions Becky and some of her friends had been asking for months. This happened last week on the tightly knit community on Plurk, which has a unique and friendly atmosphere as Tamar described a few weeks ago. Be observant! Did your room just light up?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2010

But with all other social networks, there are rules of engagement that are determined by the community. More information and tips for usage can be read in The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Until then, there will be users who take but can’t give back to the community. Still stuck? Did I miss anything?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2008

We’re not the only ones [enabling such communication] but a lot of people are using our tools, especially in places like Colombia. We’re not trying to build new communities; we’re allowing people to communicate with people they already know. Those feed items people like get pushed to other users.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

The Sexy Girls of Tech and Politics: The Unbeatable Trio (NxE): Find what the community likes and pander to them for the best kind of traffic exposure on social sites. Engaging the community and building a well-designed website are also important elements. This reading should set you back 12 months… until 2009.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Want another tip on how to write well? Read a lot. Tips on self-improvement?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. And get your account started and active immediately.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Can you please share your Twitter feeds on LinkedIn? Also, you should consider sharing your Twitter feeds and Facebook updates on your blog’s sidebar. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! And that was the UK. Just not like this.)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

At the end of the day, though, we ALL have families to feed. Actually, the last review copies I believe we distributed were in 2009. This post didn’t seem to fit with your ethos, but it did prompt me to buy “the new community rules&# on kindle. It happens in religious communities too. You usually do.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community. He also offers high quality tools, many of which are free.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Streaming only your blog’s RSS feed on Twitter. (If Using your Twitter feed as a chat room for conversations that are exclusive in nature and not as a broadcast medium. As a friend recently said to me, “I’m tired of my Twitter feed being a [private] conversation between person X, person Y, and person Z.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. Online Communities and Their Impact on Business : The key to success is engagement, but Michael Mace says that there are some concepts you need to understand first. Scared of Social Media? You May Already be Pro! But “social media marketing expert?&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

As domain names and web hosting got cheaper and cheaper, it was easy for individuals to build communities that they loved and that would help like-minded folks meet each other. It simultaneously promotes the community of TLC’s viewers while also calling attention to a new social network. But yes, check your feed!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 2, 2010

But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network. In my case, I have particularly taken a liking to the News Feed. She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Despite the fact that he had over 50,000 Twitter followers, his entire feed was a broadcast. Their social media efforts were spearheaded by a guy who looks like a nice dude, but after studying his personal Twitter feed, it was almost the same kind of thing: the process was almost wholly automated.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 1, 2008

While users can opt to have private feeds, I strive for transparency and don’t mind if my content is public. Is it misleading to endorse content that someone pitches to you when you don’t necessarily agree with it (or have no interest in it) and then have it publicly available on your feed for all to see?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

A regularly updated Fan Page brings greater awareness Community Page : What if you love something but you have no direct affiliation with the product/service, can’t find the official page, and worse, discover the page doesn’t even exist? Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. He currently serves as the community guy at Building 43. Participate in my site’s community. Her passion for Technology and Social Media has made her one of the most Influential Women in Technology (FastCompany, 2009).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

The initial sentiment was highly negative , and most concluded that the algorithm will penalize users who care much about the community and use it regularly. Both Kevin and Jay say that we should give the community the benefit of the doubt. Then the community “won.&# I think they know how valuable the community is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. After all, this time, they’re not complaining about news feeds.

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