The Way of the Web

JULY 28, 2011

Should it be the media community judging as gatekeepers on what is the right medium? The last gasps of the media community as gatekeepers? As a reader, I can choose print, TV, radio, websites, social networks, podcasts, photo sites, audio microblogs. Does Twitter differ to reporting on the same event for print or TV?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

It’s easy for people to tweet about bank robberies and to photograph live displays of computer errors in public places. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

With Twitter being so incredibly large and vast, there are different types of mini-communities. I started following people who wrote or commented on the SEO blogs to develop my own Twitter community. Communicating and getting to know people is WAY more important to me than impressing anyone or becoming known as an expert resource.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. Reaching out to bloggers and online communities, it hit both the NY Times and Wall Street Journal in the first week of publication.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

In other words, they don’t give a damn about the community and they seemed to have moved on — perhaps completely. Instead, since they weren’t, we are left to our own devices and seek alternative methods (which are not the right avenues of communication, but what do you do when the proper roads lead you to a dead end?).

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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. I would love it if you joined and helped this community grow.

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s important to understand the communities you contribute to and to understand the rules of the sites that you target. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community. Conclusion Remember that social media communities are real relationships, real conversations, and as such, they should be treated like they are real.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Both wanted to create a Facebook community to connect users to each other. Colleges have Resident Assistants who adhere to the same rules as the students, and they live among their students so they’re very much part of that community. Your loyalties are to your community, and mine are to mine. Sometimes mods make mistakes.

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